Posts by caseynewton@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ai6wkI5HoQ0ZdWlvZw by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T15:20:27Z
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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
(DIR) Post #AiQxH1odCnPvtjn5qi by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-05-31T00:17:18Z
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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:
(DIR) Post #AipzAShzwymWASlZh2 by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-06-12T00:01:51Z
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Apple is about to become a content moderator for the first time, and eight other observations after I got a briefing about Apple Intelligence today at WWDC: https://www.platformer.news/apple-intelligence-features-chatgpt-content-moderation/
(DIR) Post #AitxVbBnML70R5orsu by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-06-13T23:05:46Z
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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/
(DIR) Post #AjZ2wnDo70FuDRLox6 by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-07-03T14:39:25Z
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On the occasion of Threads' first birthday, I talked to @mosseri about growing the team, leaning into real-time conversation, and the challenges of the Fediverse. https://www.platformer.news/threads-175-million-users-adam-mosseri-interview/
(DIR) Post #AmJVNP6ihfMlSnwqmG by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-09-24T00:25:42Z
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Here's what I learned in year four of Platformer — or, everything that happened after we left Substack. https://www.platformer.news/leaving-substack-platformer-year-four/
(DIR) Post #AnNHpwUQYoTMZ9NGwy by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-10-25T17:27:57Z
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It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Kevin and I break down Elon Musk's unprecedented role in trying to influence the election. Then journalist @lauriesegall joins us to discuss the tragic story of a teenager who developed an intimate relationship with a chatbot https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/podcasts/hardfork-musk-election-character-ai.html
(DIR) Post #AnaPz5okG8cejfqqae by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-11-01T00:11:23Z
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With the addition to search in ChatGPT, OpenAI has begun to abstract away the search engine — the economic foundation of the entire web — into a modular component of the thing that will ultimately replace it. https://www.platformer.news/chatgpt-search-launch-openai-google/
(DIR) Post #AniVfjLn8DAzFG5RtA by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-11-05T01:14:51Z
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We don't know who's going to win tomorrow. But we do know that Elon Musk will promote false claims of voter fraud to tens of millions of people — and that X will be a central clearinghouse for conspiracy theories in the days ahead https://www.platformer.news/x-election-elon-musk-voter-fraud-misinformation/
(DIR) Post #AnkYrVsHkTgj6VW1Mu by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-11-06T00:56:33Z
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The right-wing effort to promote claims of voter fraud is well underway https://www.platformer.news/election-day-fraud-claims-musk-trump/
(DIR) Post #AoHtMSdcd5DZjfIzIG by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-11-22T01:34:17Z
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The DOJ's plan to force Google to share search queries and results with rivals might be one of the best things that could happen to the web. Suddenly, we might have viable search engines that are more interested in preserving the web than replacing it: https://www.platformer.news/google-antitrust-response-chrome-divesture-response/
(DIR) Post #AoQ4fW347LDbqsfajo by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2024-11-26T01:21:59Z
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Some news: amid rapid growth and some over-enforcement of its community guidelines, Bluesky tells me the company will quadruple the size of its content moderation team https://www.platformer.news/bluesky-growth-content-moderation-trust-safety-interview/
(DIR) Post #Aq5pKKsfjiHy3BwOhs by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-01-15T00:52:14Z
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/
(DIR) Post #Ashc5BwLvGZJH9zxLs by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-04-02T00:27:18Z
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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/
(DIR) Post #Asz83rUpDrvUEZvMfI by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-04-11T15:03:39Z
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@strypey I think there's some switch I need to flip on somewhere
(DIR) Post #Atb3N1KN3npXL8ppD6 by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-04-29T22:04:56Z
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The AI companies have been caught building AIs that only tell us what we want to hear. If we don't get a handle on it, that's gonna go really badly: https://www.platformer.news/meta-ai-chatgpt-glazing-sycophancy/
(DIR) Post #Avsc6av8JGOy3eT4iG by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-06-18T01:20:34Z
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The dream of the Fediverse is alive on Threads (and Mastodon) https://www.platformer.news/threads-fediverse-feed-bluesky-mastodon/
(DIR) Post #AyVvgvtmmBrl1WkhVY by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2025-09-24T00:07:20Z
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Today is Platformer's fifth birthday! I wrote about the state of the newsletter economy, how the business is going, and what we're planning for year six https://www.platformer.news/platformer-year-five-lessons/
(DIR) Post #B20alwHxFrFQIYQfcO by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T01:10:10Z
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The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax-debunked/
(DIR) Post #B20am3tQyuO3sp1CVc by caseynewton@mastodon.social
2026-01-06T01:16:58Z
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I really encourage folks to check out the document he sent me. Once you know it's fake, the mistakes are easy to spot. But it still amazes me to think that he likely generated this within a few minutes https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26456842-fake-reddit-post-whistleblower-document/