Spoke to Aditi Bharade from Business Insider about how to identify AI slop apps: www.businessinsider.com/ai-coded-ap...

There are 3 telltale signs that you used AI to make your app — and they aren't pretty

In a sea of cookie-cutter vibe-coded apps, it's getting harder to stand out. Here's what you can change in yours to set yourself apart.

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I stopped using Google Analytics on my site almost 10 years ago because I didn't want to contribute to even more cookie-based tracking. Over the weekend, I used a Claude loop to set up self-hosted, cookieless analytics and I'm...pleasantly surprised that it worked so well.

We are hiring an assistant professor to join @hcde.uw.edu in Autumn 2027. We welcome applications in all areas, with a focus on: (1) Environment and sustainability; (2) Civic infrastructure and society; (3) Labor and the future of work. Learn more & apply: apply.interfolio.com/188238

Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

Now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Serge Egelman@v0max.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This paper (abstract below) on the lies the adtech/data broker industry tells courts has finally been published: yjolt.org/anonymity-co... Joint work with Joel Reardon at U Calgary and Ken Bamberger and Laurel McGrane at Berkeley Law. 1/

In 2019 it took 6 months for GPT-2 to go from too-dangerous to release. Claude Mythos/Fable ran that cycle in 2 months. The AI PR singularity is amongst us. In 2029, there will be zero latency between a company saying a model is too dangerous and it being released.

Our work on how gen ai is impacting the labor conditions and power of professional visual artists got a great writeup from Brian Merchant! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inf...

The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts

An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.

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Excited to share that our paper has been accepted to 𝗜𝗖𝗠𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲! 🎉 Multi-agent is everywhere today. But put frontier LLMs in a room where each holds a different piece of the puzzle, and they fail 70% of the time. Here's why: 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11556

Systematic Failures in Collective Reasoning under Distributed Information in Multi-Agent LLMs

Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are expected to enhance decision-making by pooling distributed information, yet systematically evaluating this capability has remained challen...

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When was the last time you read a paper end-to-end for non-reviewing purposes? Seems like we write more than ever and read less than ever. (I'm guilty too) GenAI tools are kind of like a ddos attack on our attention. Far too much being produced to handle and justify consuming.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user ha...

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Carnegie Mellon University authors from 12 different @cmu.edu depts contributed to 76 #CHI2026 papers: 🛠️ New tools & systems 🧠 New frameworks & taxonomies ☑️ New ways to audit tech 🆕 New advancements in Accessibility, Health, Design & so much more... Details here: hcii.cmu.edu/news/cmu-chi...

Excited to be heading to Barcelona for #CHI2026 to host our workshop PoliSim: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy! This year, we’ve seen incredible interest from researchers across HCI, NLP, CSS, and Policy. We accepted 25 outstanding papers, with 5 selected as Best Paper nominees.

The overleaf git project for one of my #uist2026 submissions was assigned a uuid starting with "67". I believe this lets me mine the latest block on the gen alpha blockchain using the "Proof of Relevance" protocol. Who should I speak with about this

Will AI become a confirmation bias machine? AI can be a powerful tool for truth-seeking. Yet, people might prefer to use AI to confirm their pre-existing beliefs, and features of AI systems (eg sycophancy) may make AI effective at justifying what people want to believe. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Really excited that “Privy” received a CHI ’26 Honorable Mention Award 🏅 Privy is part of my PhD work on AI privacy: understanding AI privacy risks, studying why they’re hard to address in practice, and building tools that help product teams act on them.

Sauvik Das@sauvik.me · 6mo ago

📣 New at #CHI2026 Developing a new AI product? How would you figure out what are the privacy risks? Privy help non-privacy expert practitioners create high quality privacy impact assessments for early-stage AI products. Led by @hankhplee.bsky.social Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/69/s...

I am working on a UX audit agent for my company (fuguux.com/). I passed in the output of our audit agent into Claude code for my personal website and...voila, a refreshed and much better site. Surprised it worked! Before -> after sauvik.me

An exciting development: Privy was recognized with a best paper honorable mention at #chi2026! Congrats to the whole team, including: @hankhplee.bsky.social @kyzyl.me @jodiforlizzi.bsky.social

Sauvik Das@sauvik.me · 6mo ago

📣 New at #CHI2026 Developing a new AI product? How would you figure out what are the privacy risks? Privy help non-privacy expert practitioners create high quality privacy impact assessments for early-stage AI products. Led by @hankhplee.bsky.social Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/69/s...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements

An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

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Honored to be named Privacy co-chair of ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee with @benwinters.bsky.social On that note: please read USTPC's statement discouraging adtech vendors from sharing personal data with DHS/ICE.

ACM Policy Committees@acmpolicy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New statement from the ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee on AdTech & DHS privacy/security: computing experts urge stronger safeguards around government use of advertising-tech data collection. #Privacy #Security #TechPolicy acm.org/binaries/con...

Can LLMs really serve as "crash dummies" for security & privacy testing? We put this assumption to the test. 🚨New preprint 🚨: "How Well Can LLM Agents Simulate End-User Security and Privacy Attitudes and Behaviors?" 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.184... [1/n]

New statement from the ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee on AdTech & DHS privacy/security: computing experts urge stronger safeguards around government use of advertising-tech data collection. #Privacy #Security #TechPolicy acm.org/binaries/con...

🚨New paper🚨 We spent a year working with emergency preparedness policymakers to answer a simple question: can LLM agent simulations actually help real institutions make better decisions? The answer is yes—but perhaps not how you'd expect. 👇 THREAD 👇 [Link to paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.218... [1/n]

📣 New at #CHI2026 People share sensitive things “anonymously”… but anonymity is hard to reason about. What if we could quantify re-identification risk with AI? How should we present those AI-estimated risks to users? Led by my student Isadora Krsek Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/70/s...

📣 New at #CHI2026 Developing a new AI product? How would you figure out what are the privacy risks? Privy help non-privacy expert practitioners create high quality privacy impact assessments for early-stage AI products. Led by @hankhplee.bsky.social Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/69/s...

New @acm.org U.S. Tech Policy Committee response to DHS proposed visa rule collecting social media data identifies serious risks to U.S. competitiveness in computer science research: www.acm.org/binaries/con... #TechPolicy

🚨 New CHI 2026 Workshop 🚨 PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy

Sounds like a great opportunity for anyone building a spring 2026 schedule right now! Hey @cmu.edu students, check out this HCII special topics course "Building Technologies for the Resistance." 👀 hcii.cmu.edu/course/speci... #privacy #cybersecurity #ethics #TechEthics #SurveillanceCapitalism

Sauvik Das@sauvik.me · 9mo ago

I'm fortunate to be able to teach my new class on "Building Technologies for the Resistance" next semester. If you're a CMU student, consider enrolling! This will be a collaborative, project-based class where you'll get to prototype resistance technologies.

I'm fortunate to be able to teach my new class on "Building Technologies for the Resistance" next semester. If you're a CMU student, consider enrolling! This will be a collaborative, project-based class where you'll get to prototype resistance technologies.

I am pleased to say that I submitted the last of my dissertation work for publication! This work was a long-term goal starting with a Mozilla grant I applied for in my first year of PhD. Since then, I’ve learned a lot and hope that what I contributed will be useful to the community.