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Retired UNESCO Dir for Digital Inclusion, Policies & Transformation. Chair, UN University, eGov Institute. UNESCO Women in STEM Committee Some pottery and cyanotyping Profile picture is of my face and torso Banner is a picture I took of a light garden
NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
"...prompting your way to art or to writing is not the same as having a new tool that allows you to make art or tell a story. AI, here, is not a tool — It’s not allowing you to do the work. You’re allowing it to do the work. Which is to say, you’re the tool." 🔥
Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9h agoProfessional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.
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Indicado de Trump ao Brasil advogou para emissora que espalhou desinformação eleitoral, por @opaulomm.bsky.social paulomotoryn.substack.com/p/indicado-d...
Indicado de Trump ao Brasil advogou para emissora que espalhou desinformação eleitoral
Declaração financeira de Daniel Perez indica pagamentos de empresas como a Newsmax, que difundiu desinformação sobre a eleição dos EUA, e o Airbnb, hoje no centro de disputas regulatórias no Brasil.
paulomotoryn.substack.com
Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies has a two year postdoc program for recent PhDs in the soical sciences. Applications due Sep 15 2026. piirs.princeton.edu/funding-fell...
PIIRS Postdoctoral Fellows
Provides opportunities for talented early-career scholars in the social sciences to spend a dedicated period of time pursuing their research with access to Princeton’s world-renowned resources.
piirs.princeton.edu
School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study call for applications for residential fellows in 2027-28. Annual theme will be: Understanding AI. Applications due Oct 15. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
ias.edu
A OpenAI, dona do ChatGPT começou a implementar anúncios na IA aqui no Brasil. A propaganda será exibida para usuários maiores de 18 anos nos planos Free e Go.
"Asked a multiple-choice question designed to detect stereotyping, it picks the unbiased answer. On the instruments the field actually uses to certify models, compression looks harmless. The open-ended answers do not. Ask the same compressed model an open question & it volunteers stereotypes..."
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11h agoAlmost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.
"[T]he safe config is the 1 that users must opt out of rather than the 1 they must hunt for. [ECA decree] goes further by naming specific mechanics & requiring services to prevent designs that encourage excessive, problematic, or compulsive use, such as infinite scrolling & excessive notifications."
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11h agoAge restrictions and design obligations are complementary measures. Lorena Giuberti Coutinho on Brazil's ECA Digital law and the case for regulating how platforms are built, not just who can use them.
Meta "pervert glasses" may be banned in Germany due to the difficulty in determining when they are recording and thus potentially violating privacy.
Sleeping Giants Brasil@sleepinggiantsbr.bsky.social · 12h agoO comissário de proteção de dados encarregado da Meta na Alemanha, Thomas Fuchs, alegou que já toma ações para prevenir filmagens escondidas com os óculos, podendo até aplicar multas por gravações proibidas. 📰 Fonte: G1
By creating special rules only for minors, this bill pushes AI companies toward age verification—meaning more data collection, not less. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the Youth AI Privacy Act, a bill that would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement so-called “safe design features,”
eff.org
This is called "gambling" or "betting," not "prediction." Media should use the correct terminology.
The Information@theinformation.com · 12h agoRobinhood generated $156 million from prediction markets in the second quarter, more than 10 times its total a year earlier. The business now brings in more revenue than stock or crypto trading. Read more insights: https://thein.fo/4xbhcFI
Another brilliant thread by @doctorow.pluralistic.net on Google's enshittification.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14h agoIf you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/a... 2/
I wondered what had happened to this. If it looks like I'm hot, I am :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIhb... random podcast, but better than average questions.
Professor Joanna Bryson: "You Don't Have a Relationship With AI, You Have One With Yourself"
YouTube video by Andrew Phipps
youtube.com
Why would anyone wish to feed their children's images to the CSAM-generating machines?!?
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago“It is the Eye of Sauron, but it also knows when we enter our daughter’s room in the morning and joy hits her face — and it sends us intelligently edited montages of these moments.”
“I think a lot of the public backlash to AI isn’t explained by people thinking the technology has no use at all…It’s AI as sort of an avatar for a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires’ ability to impose their vision of the world onto everybody else without their consent.” @jasmine.bsky.social
Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This (Gift Article)
Jasmine Sun, a writer covering technology, takes us into the backlash against A.I. data centers.
nytimes.com
"We try to weave the story together with the evidence, the questions around it, the problems that evidence can solve, and the proof that supports our conclusions. We’re trying to show and not tell, and bring the viewer along on that journey of discovery." Hard and ⏫️ necessary type of journalism.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · yesterdayNew York Times’ Malachy Browne on the future of visual investigations in the age of AI reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-yor...
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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo.Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
If you didn't yet have enough reason to despise Uber, read about how they fight sexual assault charges by attempting to discredit and blame the women. 😡
Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · yesterday“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
"The same AI executives who promise that their products will deliver human civilization to a triumphant future seemingly cannot release consumer-grade tools without face-planting." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Return of ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
The AI industry is getting sloppier.
theatlantic.com
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
arstechnica.com
By me at this.weekinsecurity.com: A major online ads company that claims to serve 1.5 billion ads a day was hacked and began serving malware designed to steal a person's crypto. This is the latest perfect example why you should use an ad-blocker.
Online advertising giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are necessary
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
this.weekinsecurity.com
Tulane's Muira McCammon documented how Google turned off reviews for 90+ ICE detention facilities, erasing accounts of conditions inside. Google says disabling ICE facility reviews was "unrelated to a government request." But McCammon argues the effect is the same: dissent rendered invisible.
As Google Scrubs ICE Detention Reviews, Platform Power Serves State Interests
Google’s content moderation choices threaten to render accounts of treatment inside federal detention centers invisible, writes Muira McCammon.
buff.ly
The SDGs depend on people having reliable information to judge progress and demand accountability. UNESCO is training young journalists and creators in Pakistan to report responsibly online. https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/learning-leadership-building-media-and-information-literacy-people
From Learning to Leadership: Building Media and Information Literacy
Empowering upcoming content creators, UNESCO is equipping a new generation to produce responsible digital stories and build a resilient, inclusive information ecosystem.
unesco.org
10 motivos para participar do X Congresso! Neste ano realizaremos a 10ª edição do Congresso Internacional Direitos Fundamentais e Processo Penal na Era Digital. Conheça 10 motivos para você participar do Congresso, referência no debate sobre tecnologia e processo penal. Segue o fio. 🧵
Google didn't just add AI to Google Earth—it briefly turned one of the world's most trusted sources of evidence into a generator of plausible fakes. shirin anlen & Sam Gregory from WITNESS on a foreseeable fiasco, and why tech firms must consult civil society experts before launch, not after.
Google Earth AI Fiasco Underscores Why Tech Firms Must Listen to Outside Experts
It's just one more parable in a long line of product releases by AI firms with potentially dangerous consequences, write shirin anlen and Sam Gregory.
after.google
📢 Call: Postdoctoral Researcher for our research group on Technology and Statehood, led by Regine Paul. Possible research topics include: States’ use of AI stacks, quantum computing, and digital twins. 🗓️ Apply by September 18, 2026 Please share widely! career.mpifg.de/jobposting/f...
