Online age verification laws and mandatory digital ID bills are sweeping across the US, UK, Europe, and Australia under the guise of protecting children online. On this episode of Free Speech Friday, ...

In 2017, Facebook’s AI research division and Georgia Tech published a paper titled “Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues.” In it, they described how they trained AI chatbots ...

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There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

The entire tech industry has descended into chaos over the past week in a fight that’s fundamentally about who gets to control the future of AI. The debate is primarily centered around open weight ...

Are we living through the dawn of permanent, personalized surveillance? Kylie Jenner is the face of Meta’s new AI smart glasses and suddenly, influencers are declaring a “hot surveillance summer,” ...

Today, a new Pew Research Center survey was released that found that nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (56%) support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites aka total and complete ...

Everyone is celebrating the ruling against Meta and Google in the landmark “social media addiction” trial, but they shouldn’t be. In this latest episode of my Free Speech Friday series, journalist Kat ...

A landmark lawsuit in California is claiming that social media giants like Meta, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat are intentionally designing their platforms to be addictive, causing severe mental health ...

Are smartphones and social media actually destroying teen mental health, or is this just another moral panic? In my latest episode of my Free Speech Friday YouTube series, I critically examine the ...

For years, college students Nelson Bellows and Abbi Park noticed how TikTok and Instagram Reels users would comment predictions on videos about how they thought they would perform. Users would comment ...

But most Gamergate-style campaigns have traditionally relied on more text-based media or vague accusations about business dealings or journalistic practices. The bad actors might use a few screenshots ...