@Gargron @bart @pxl definitely built on top of it! not sure what they might have changed
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 04:15:20 JST Casey Newton -
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 08:06:56 JST Casey Newton NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:41:48 JST Casey Newton @Gargron great point! would love to see them engage with that more directly
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 09:41:16 JST Casey Newton There's yet another open letter from the AI safety crowd. If they want more people to take them seriously, they need to get more specific
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 18:12:30 JST Casey Newton After a new investigation in the WSJ, I am once again asking: what is the conflict of interest policy at OpenAI?? https://www.platformer.news/openai-altman-investments-conflicts-wsj/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 09:25:56 JST Casey Newton This year at Platformer we want to tell more stories about the web as it enters a state of managed decline. Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing a man whose independent games site was crushed by a change to Google's search rankings and its embrace of AI: https://www.platformer.news/google-retro-dodo-core-algorithm-change-ai-publishers/
Here's Retro Dodo's founder:
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 01:56:39 JST Casey Newton Most AI chatbots are cold and clinical. OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT is warm and flirty. That could have big, unpredictable consequences https://www.platformer.news/openai-gpt-4o-chatgpt-voice-vision/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 10:54:05 JST Casey Newton With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 01:05:21 JST Casey Newton It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week: your wildest stories about using AI at work. Then, Hank Green joins us to share his thoughts on a TikTok ban. And finally, the deepfake that roiled a Maryland high school https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/podcasts/hard-fork-work-hank-green-deepfake.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 09:32:49 JST Casey Newton Meta's Oversight Board is preparing for its first round of layoffs and hasn't found a second major funding source beyond Meta itself. I wrote about why it's struggling to have an impact https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-layoffs/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 16:18:57 JST Casey Newton Brutal reviews for Humane Ai Pin suggest that the tech industry's overpromising about AI is starting to catch up with it. I wrote about where the company went wrong https://www.platformer.news/humanes-folly-and-the-ai-hype-hangover/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 09:09:03 JST Casey Newton I wrote about the case of the missing TikTok ban. A month after that bill passed the House, ByteDance is not acting like a company that is scared of what the Senate might do https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-senate-april-house-schumer-cantwell/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 06:41:45 JST Casey Newton It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, AI and jobs, artist Paul Trillo on using OpenAI's Sora to explore the future of filmmaking, and Kevin explains the XZ backdoor caper https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/podcasts/hardfork-ai-jobs-sora-xz.html
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 09:04:40 JST Casey Newton Now that Perplexity said that 'sponsored queries' are coming to its plagiarism engine, I wrote about the risks of ad-based chatbots https://www.platformer.news/perplexity-ai-ads-privacy-risks/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 01:18:04 JST Casey Newton It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, we interview young listeners (and a high school teacher) about what *they* think social media is doing to teens. PLUS: AI instability and shrimp Jesus https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/podcasts/ais-messy-moment-listeners-respond-to-jonathan-haidt-shrimp-jesus.html
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 12:59:34 JST Casey Newton Florida is the latest state to demand that apps and websites verify users' ages. But it would probably be better to force the app stores to do the verifying https://www.platformer.news/monday-newsletter-2/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 09:14:53 JST Casey Newton It's hard to get too excited about Reddit as a business on the eve of its IPO. But its vision of decentralized moderation and niche communities is still one of my favorite versions of the internet https://www.platformer.news/reddit-ipo-business-content-moderation-decentralization/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 09:59:16 JST Casey Newton In a rare bit of good Supreme Court news, it seems like the justices will not prohibit the federal government from communicating threats to platforms
https://www.platformer.news/murthy-missouri-jawboning-case-tik-tok-ban/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 09:18:18 JST Casey Newton On the occasion of CrowdTangle being sunset, I talked with Nick Clegg, Brandon Silverman, Kevin Roose and the Oversight Board's Naomi Shiffman about what it meant and the future of platform transparency https://www.platformer.news/meta-crowdtangle-shutdown-dsa-platform-transparency/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 09:23:43 JST Casey Newton The fact that most synthetic media is mediocre hasn't stopped it from spreading everywhere — even in politics, where some of the same officials who warn about the dangers of AI are using it to promote themselves and attack their rivals https://www.platformer.news/chatbot-industry-2024-mediocrity-politics/
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