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Emily M. Bender

@emilymbender
69 posts
2026-01-16
So all of the info on Wikipedia is shared under a Creative Commons Share Alike license.  Does this mean that MSFT, Meta and Amazon will be making their models freely available? [embedded post]
2026-01-16 View on X
Financial Times

A profile of Wikipedia as it faces myriad challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and a legal battle in India

As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk

So all of the info on Wikipedia is shared under a Creative Commons Share Alike license.  Does this mean that MSFT, Meta and Amazon will be making their models freely available? [embedded post]
2026-01-16 View on X
The Verge

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member

for better or worseMatthias Bastian /The Decoder:Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedia for the data they already useAndre Revilla /Engadget:Wikimedia announces AI...

2026-01-15
So all of the info on Wikipedia is shared under a Creative Commons Share Alike license.  Does this mean that MSFT, Meta and Amazon will be making their models freely available? [embedded post]
2026-01-15 View on X
The Verge

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member

The companies have joined Google as the latest members of the Wikimedia Enterprise program.

2026-01-12
Health experts: Your synthetic text “AI” overviews are misleading, for example see this about liver function tests.  —  Google: Okay, we'll block “AI” overviews on that query.  —  The product is fundamentally flawed and cannot be “fixed” by patching query by query.  —  A short 🧵>>
2026-01-12 View on X
The Guardian

Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after experts warned of “alarming” results, but slight tweaks still trigger AI responses

Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests

2025-08-14
To recap: Meta is pushing “AI companions”, because Zuck see a “market” for artificial friends.  They have a large workforce “training” these chatbots, presumably doing content-moderation style work, according to guidelines.  —  www.reuters.com/investigates...  >> [image]
2025-08-14 View on X
Reuters

An internal policy doc shows Meta permitted its chatbots to engage in provocative behavior; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids

An internal Meta policy document, seen by Reuters, reveals the social-media giant's rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior …

2024-11-05
Setting things up so that you get “the answer” to your question cuts off the user's ability to do the sense-making that is critical to information literacy. >>
2024-11-05 View on X
TechCrunch

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”

goodbye, Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2024 Adrianna Nine / ExtremeTech : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search to Paid Users M...

If someone uses an LLM as a replacement for search, and the output they get is correct, this is just by chance. >>
2024-11-05 View on X
TechCrunch

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”

goodbye, Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2024 Adrianna Nine / ExtremeTech : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search to Paid Users M...

Furthermore, a system that is right 95% of the time is arguably more dangerous tthan one that is right 50% of the time. People will be more likely to trust the output, and likely less able to fact check the 5%. >>
2024-11-05 View on X
TechCrunch

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”

goodbye, Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2024 Adrianna Nine / ExtremeTech : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search to Paid Users M...

As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
2024-11-05 View on X
TechCrunch

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer”

goodbye, Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Daily Search Forum Recap: November 4, 2024 Adrianna Nine / ExtremeTech : OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT Search to Paid Users M...

2024-03-30
There's a lot that's alarming in this article, but perhaps the most alarming part is the NYC spokesperson assering that the problem can be fixed via upgrades: >> https://www.thecity.nyc/... [image]
2024-03-30 View on X
The City

NYC's Microsoft-powered MyCity chatbot, launched as a pilot program last October, often gives inaccurate info, including telling businesses to break the law

Steal your employees' tips!  Discriminate against renters on basis of race!  —  Just two of the wonderful suggestions that Microsoft's LLM is telling people to do.  (Clearly simply...

2024-03-19
Today the US DHS announced three “pilot” use cases of “AI” (by which they apparently mean synthetic text extruding machines). Despite their repeated assurances of “rigorous testing” and “protecting civil liberties” I am ... just a bit (a lot) skeptical: https://buttondown.email/...
2024-03-19 View on X
New York Times

In partnerships with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, the US DHS rolls out pilot programs to test AI tech to help combat drug and human trafficking crimes, and more

2024-03-04
What if — instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regulation doesn't apply to them, and chatbots urging self-harm? /fin
2024-03-04 View on X
The Guardian

Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection

instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regu...

One of the supposedly positive findings is that people form a “therapeutic alliance” with the bots within “just five days”. Not sure how that is measured, but also what happens when the bot can't follow through on what a therapeutic alliance is supposed to be? /5
2024-03-04 View on X
The Guardian

Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection

instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regu...

Arghh - more problematic reporting, this time about robo-therapists. A thread: /1 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2024-03-04 View on X
The Guardian

Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection

instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regu...

The only studies cited are co-authored by the companies selling this crap. /4
2024-03-04 View on X
The Guardian

Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection

instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regu...

What if — instead of seeing the process of creating clinical documentation as mere busywork — the tech bros understood it as possibly part of the process of care? /10
2024-03-04 View on X
The Guardian

Some users turn to AI chatbot therapists, finding them cheap, quick, available 24/7, and easy to talk to, but experts warn about the lack of a human connection

instead of leading with the ‘gee whiz AI’ angle — journalism in this space started with privacy harms, the fact that somehow tech companies get away with pretending healthcare regu...

2023-08-23
""Civitai exists to democratize AI media creation, making it a shared, inclusive, and empowering journey." CivitAI's site says." “Democracy” means shared governance. That's not what this is. Thx to E Maiberg for this important & distressing reporting. https://www.404media.co/... [image]
2023-08-23 View on X
404 Media

A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates

2023-05-29
You could even use Hinton's “realization” as a hook and then pivot to: @ruha9 @safiyanoble @mathbabedotorg @schock @csdoctorsister @rajiinio @Abebab @mer__edith & ofc @timnitgebru and @mmitchell_ai, who were fired by Google over our paper discussing the dangers of LLMs.>>
2023-05-29 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting

The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months. Tweets: @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @janebsinger , @e...

But more to the point: How is it that media reporting on Hinton's sudden switch to “warning” so often forgets to ask who else has been talking about dangers of this technology and what in particular have they been warning of? >>
2023-05-29 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting

The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months. Tweets: @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @janebsinger , @e...

@geoffreyhinton To the media: Wow is it a bad look that one old white guy comes out belatedly saying “AI is bad!” and you fawn all over him, while failing to connect with the scholars (mostly not white men) who have been documenting the actual problems with “AI”. >>
2023-05-29 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting

The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months. Tweets: @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @emilymbender , @janebsinger , @e...