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Kashmir Hill

@kashhill.bsky.social

Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)

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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last wk.

An interview with the man who set his data to self-destruct if his phone was searched by law enforcement: "I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy." www.404media.co/the-governme...

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ...

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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last wk.

This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 2w ago

Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)

As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.

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Sam Hill@samahill.bsky.social · 3w ago

Absolutely insane story from @kashhill.bsky.social here. She spoke with an "AI biographer" who has used ChatGPT to create over 400 books to sell on Amazon. Amazon doesn't disclose that they are all AI-generated. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

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Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3w ago

🆘 As a writer, I find this heartbreaking. A bit of an existential crisis! 🆘 Blinded studies have consistently shown people CAN'T tell difference and PREFER AI written text. I Got Slopped www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t... by @kashhill.bsky.social Writing next book now. Leaning hard into old school.

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

nytimes.com

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lol @kashhill.bsky.social, as always: insightful, startling, and funny. "Because romance sells, the professors thought it would be the genre most susceptible to AI intervention... instead it was nonfiction—a term that should probably be used loosely in this context" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. (Gift Article)

Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?

nytimes.com

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 3w ago

Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash

Users and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.

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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 4w ago

OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 4w ago

OpenAI's ill-fated Sora allowed people to make AI-generated videos with other people's likenesses, but those people had to opt in to letting their likenesses being used. Meta is taking a different path, reports @thiccreese.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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maddy varner@regret.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, an internal watchdog that normally does things like inspecting detention facilities and investigating employee misconduct, has also been investigating what people say online about ICE and its employees: www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

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Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last mo.

Privacy advocates who criticized Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition surveillance in the press (including an article I co-wrote at The Times) got dossiers of their own. Soooooo Knicks fan Ben Wizner was right not to talk to me for that story. www.404media.co/madison-squa...

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

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