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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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 14:50:44 JST Casey Newton Wrote about Google's generative AI experiments in journalism and the industry's continued push into soulless automation https://www.platformer.news/google-news-initiative/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:55:28 JST Casey Newton It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Kara Swisher roasts the heck out of Kevin and me in one of my favorite segments we've ever done. PLUS: Stanford's brilliant Daphne Keller joins us to walk through this week's Supreme Court cases on content moderation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/podcasts/hardfork-google-gemini-kara-swisher.html
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 11:55:10 JST Casey Newton When Meta's Oversight Board data can't get the data it requests from the company it often relies on CrowdTangle. Interesting finding here from @zoeschiffer https://www.platformer.news/meta-oversight-board-data-regulation/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 01:16:01 JST Casey Newton It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on all those new models, life after AGI, and the whole woke chatbot thing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/podcasts/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 21:14:31 JST Casey Newton A new study out of Georgetown and Stanford found that propaganda generated by GPT-3 (not 4!) was persuasive to almost half of the people who read it. I spoke to one of the authors and wrote about the implications https://www.platformer.news/ai-generated-propaganda-persuasive-georgetown-stanford-study/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 10:16:47 JST Casey Newton Who killed Twitter — Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? @zoeschiffer and @kurtwagner8, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learned: https://www.platformer.news/kurt-wagner-battle-for-the-bird-interview-zoe-schiffer-extremely-hardcore/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 10:10:33 JST Casey Newton Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing Mastodon founder @Gargron on the state of the platform and its relationship with Meta. He says he thinks two-way federation between Threads and Mastodon is coming this summer https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 10:55:37 JST Casey Newton This week's child safety hearing had some good ideas in it. But we should be realistic about how much we can make teens safer and healthier when they face so many other challenges https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 10:23:51 JST Casey Newton Let's talk about what might come out of tomorrow's Senate hearing about online child safety https://www.platformer.news/senate-child-safety-hearing-preview-2024/?ref=platformer-newsletter
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 02:05:31 JST Casey Newton It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week, we try to talk Chris Dixon out of investing in crypto. Plus: sorting through this week’s dire media news, and a round of HatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/podcasts/hard-fork-ai-news-media-a16z-chris-dixon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 10:18:05 JST Casey Newton The Taylor Swift harassment campaign on X is a warning. These same tools are already being used to harass average people across lots of platforms, and the response from tech companies and lawmakers hasn't been nearly good enough https://www.platformer.news/taylor-swift-deepfake-nudes-x/
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jan-2024 11:08:01 JST Casey Newton Just a heads up that we're dealing with a last-minute migration issue and so today's Platformer will be coming out a little late. We recommend that you spend this time with your family reflecting on what Platformer means to your life
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Casey Newton (caseynewton@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 02:52:46 JST Casey Newton New, Substack-free website just dropped https://www.platformer.news/
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