Read more at arxiv.org/abs/2605.14164. Great collaboration with @sbaack.com and @matybohacek.bsky.social . Best co-authors anyone can wish for.

Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Builders

The primary way to establish and compare competencies in foundation and generative AI models has shifted from peer-reviewed literature to press releases and company blog posts, where model builders hi...

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Benchmarks as narrative devices by AI builders! Our new paper maps 231 benchmarks highlighted in 139 model releases by 11 model builders in 2025. I'm excited to present “Unsteady Metrics and Benchmarking Cultures of AI Model Builders” next month at #FAccT2026. Paper at arxiv.org/abs/2605.14164

Some #generativeAI developers love to destroy the foundations of the tech they build. #WIkipedia is one of the most valuable sources of genAI training data. Undermining it is not just attacking a great common resource. It's also completely self-destructive arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/n...

Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there's a plugin to avoid them.

The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it.

arstechnica.com

A little-known nonprofit has been lying to news publishers while funneling millions of paywalled articles to tech companies for AI training. Read my investigation in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work

The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.

theatlantic.com

Check in if you're interested in my thoughts about what open source AI should aspire to be in relation to proprietary AI

Open Source Initiative@opensource.org · 12mo ago

What should open source AI aspire to be? Watch Stefan Baack and Kasia Odrozek's keynote at OSI Deep Dive: Data Governance conference taking place October 1-3. Register for free at: https://opensource.org/datagovernanceconf

"The update is yet another signal that payment processors...are currently the ultimate arbiter of what kind of content can be made easily available online, or not."

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · last yr.

more pressure from payment processors www.404media.co/steam-bends-...

The key questions we always should ask when people talk about AI: What is being automated and why? @alexhanna.bsky.social @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social

"AI is a labor disciplining device" @alexhanna.bsky.social

“The reporter is a man of critical value. No amount of money or effort spent in fitting the right men for this work could possibly be wasted, for the health of society depends upon the quality of the information it receives.” — Walter Lippmann [a century later, I’d swap “man” for “person” though]

New Release! Most AI deepfakes aren't political. 90% of deepfakes are non-consensual intimate imagery. 99% of victims are women. Max Hoppensted, @rechercheur.bsky.social, @romanhoefner.bsky.social, and I uncover a deepfake community and the business behind undress apps www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...

(S+) Deepfake-Pornos: Das perfide Geschäft mit gefälschten Sexvideos

Tausende Frauen werden Opfer von gefakten Pornos, in denen ihr Gesicht zu sehen ist. Betroffen sind minderjährige Mädchen, Prominente, Politikerinnen. Dahinter stecken skrupellose Geschäftsleute. Der ...

spiegel.de

"brainstorming and iteration is...a crucial everyday part of game development...and is not a problem to be solved...I have had many discussions with other game developers who interact with AI engineers and savants who believe our industry pipelines need 'fixing' by them and them alone"

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last yr.

‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: what it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its developers aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...

Die Union will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen. @arnesemsrott.bsky.social: „Öffentliche Kontrolle &Transparenz sind der Union offenbar ein Dorn im Auge. Sie will unbehelligt durchregieren. Rechte der Öffentlichkeit stören dabei offenbar." Pressemitteilung: fragdenstaat.de/newsletter/a...

«By moving fast and breaking things, DOGE forces a collapse of the system where unanswered questions are met with technological solutions. Shifting the conversation to the technical is a way of locking policymakers and the public out of decisions and shifting that power to the code they write.»

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 2y ago

My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

404media.co

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

“AI is fake and sucks” vs “AI is real and dangerous” is a Twitter argument. In reality I think the debate also has a lot of “AI is real but not for how you’re using it,” to “AI is fake and that is dangerous,” to “things are happening to real people because of AI hype and that should stop.”

My reading for this week, delivered to me by the great @aschrock.bsky.social themself! Thank you, looking forward to reading :-)

Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies

Labelers training AI say they're overworked, underpaid and exploited by big American tech companies

Digital workers in Kenya had to sift through horrific online content to train AI, but say they were underpaid, overworked, and got inadequate mental health support. So they're fighting back.

cbsnews.com

Dieser Report gibt Hoffnung! Immer mehr neue, ambitionierte Medien haben sich in Deutschland und Europa gegründet. Medien mit dem Ziel, die Öffentlichkeit hochwertig zu informieren. @netzwerkrecherche.org hat für den „Journalism Value Report“ 174 Medien in 31 Ländern befragt und kann zeigen:

I have a new piece out with @aisvarya17.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social in which we test how OpenAI's new search feature surfaces and attributes news content. Our findings were not promising for news publishers (1/9) www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

How ChatGPT (Mis)represents Publisher Content

ChatGPT search — which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing — launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively wi...

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“Without facts, you can’t have truth, and without truth, you can’t have trust”. - Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Most #generativeAI models were trained on Common Crawl, a massive archive of web crawl data. Yet most people never heard of it. My new research studies Common Crawl in-depth and highlights its influence on LLM research and development foundation.mozilla.org/en/research/... (1/10)

Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich: Common Crawl’s Impact on Generative AI

Mozilla research finds that Common Crawl's outsized role in the generative AI boom has improved transparency and competition, but is also contributing to biased and opaque generative AI models.

foundation.mozilla.org

me and @zeerak.bsky.social wrote about if decolonial AI is at all possible https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781803928562/book-part-9781803928562-16.xml

Generative AI is shaped by the values, practices and objectives of people. I wrote an explainer showing how to help demystifying the tech and focus on questions of accountability https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-human-decisions-that-shape-generative-ai-who-is-accountable-for-what/