Maggie Harrison Dupré
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
Award-winning journalist at Futurism covering AI and its impacts on industries, media/information, and people. Send tips by email to: maggie@futurism.com or Signal: mhd.39
Amazingly dangerous, cruel, and completely unnecessary.
Andrea González-Ramírez@andreagonram.bsky.social · 2d agoThis fall, WA voters will weigh in on a ballot measure to bar trans athletes from participating on girls’ sports teams. The initiative requires girls in K-12 school sports to undergo sex testing, including an examination of their reproductive anatomy. My latest: www.thecut.com/article/wash...
NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
That didn't last long futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis
Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.
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A new Google Earth update, which allowed users to alter satellite imagery with AI, let me cover my rural PA hometown with fake fire, drought, and soldiers. Google now says it's rolling back the feature. w/ @f-w-l.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis
Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.
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made their way to my inbox as well, with some VERY booster-y "ideas," lol (I did not respond to any, but did forward one to a friend out of mere amusement. little did I know!)
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
"None of these alleged PR reps had any online presence beyond of my personal inbox — which was strange, given their apparent careers as professional connectors. And just like Casey, each of these three new personas, who allegedly worked for different firms, had been pitching me on AGI Inc."
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
I've been bombarded with emails like this (some PR pitches, some book publicity offers) for months and it's made it almost impossible to separate genuine pitches that have value from scammy slop. I doubt I'm the only one who just auto-deletes now.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Just love a solid busting.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
me when it turns out all those garbage PR emails in my inbox actually ARE from AI-generated fake publicists
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
futurism.com
Infuriating scoop by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social: a PR agency called Movchan has been using a battalion of fake, AI-generated PR agents to spam journalists with pitches for its clients, with absolutely no disclosure that they're not real people futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
futurism.com
"Somehow, Cambridge Analytica returned"
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 6d agoNEW: Cambridge Analytica -- the company that pilfered tens of millions of people's FB data, causing a huge scandal that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of Congress -- has returned as an AI slop zombie that's plagiarized publications ranging from Wired to the NYT futurism.com/artificial-i...
NEW: Cambridge Analytica -- the company that pilfered tens of millions of people's FB data, causing a huge scandal that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of Congress -- has returned as an AI slop zombie that's plagiarized publications ranging from Wired to the NYT futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
futurism.com
NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least one fake writer whose face seems to have been stolen from a random guy. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
futurism.com
Steven Rosenbaum, the author whose "Future of Truth" book was riddled with AI-generated falsehoods, had already been caught using AI to write inaccurate and self-serving Wikipedia pages and edits, @deansterlingjones.bsky.social reports: shootingthemessenger.blog/2026/07/30/s...
SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on Wikipedia
REGIONAL EMMY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER STEVEN ROSENBAUM insists that AI-generated quotes in his 2026 book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, were an ‘accident.’ Bu…
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"I am human, and a man, and some of these girls are fcking hot :D haaaaa, which puts me face to face with confronting the inner struggle of not becoming the very thing that I despise" this is insane and fascinating @nymag.com www.thecut.com/article/cam-...
The Porn Addicts Who Tried to Rescue the Camgirls
How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp.
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When OpenAI releases its technical report on what happened will the ~it’s a marketing stunt~ people read it and change their minds or will that also be part of the marketing stunt
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last wk.Wrote about why AI safety incidents are leading ~some people~ to stick their fingers in their ears and insist nothing is happening www.platformer.news/a-big-week-f...
some "shared" claude chats got indexed by search engines! who's fault is it? anthropic disallows crawlers from using it via robots.txt, but search engines apparently ignore that if you don't have a "noindex" meta tag on the page.
WIRED@wired.com · last wk.The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public. www.wired.com/story/privat...
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Something similar has happened with both ChatGPT and Grok. If you're a chatbot user, it's safest to behave like anything you share could be made public some day.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
futurism.com
"...not only can peddlers of disinformation use the technology to fabricate evidence, but dishonest power players can point to the existence of AI to discount actual documentation of misbehavior or crimes."
joe a wilkins@joeonhere.bsky.social · 2w agoNearly five months after US forces killed over 120 children in Iran, Trump suggests photo evidence showing US missile fragments in the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school is "AI generated."
I love the part in The Odyssey when Odysseus is stuck on Mars for a really long time
A Florida pastor is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT downplayed warning signs of a medical crisis and gave poor medial advice, nearly resulting in his death. Chat logs included in the lawsuit show ChatGPT incorporating religious language into its medical guidance: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: A survey found that about 1 in 5 teens have used AI to generate sexual content, or know someone who has; often, that AI content depicted someone they personally knew. About 40% of teens said that deepfakes are changing the way they use (or don't use) the internet. futurism.com/artificial-i...