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How Google taught AI to doubt itself
Can you stop chatbots from making stuff up using search?
Casey Newton
Founder and editor of Platformer, a publication about the intersection of tech and democracy. Prior to founding Platformer in October 2020, Newton was the longtime Silicon Valley editor of The Verge.
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What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
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The FTC takes aim at X
Company documents reveal how a stalled data deletion project and inadequate data protections could put X in the agency’s crosshairs
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Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography
Walter Isaacson brings new tales of Jack Dorsey, that Sergey Brin selfie, and more
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Is the First Amendment making a comeback online?
How a major appeals court ruling — and a new lawsuit in California from Elon Musk — could limit the US government’s content moderation agenda
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Google goes to court
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
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A return to Kiwi Farms
A year after the Cloudflare controversy, the site's resilience speaks to the limits of deplatforming
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Did YouTube solve its rabbit hole problem?
A new study on the power — and limits — of changing a recommendation algorithm
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The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board
A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something important is broken
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How platforms can make our politics resilient to AI
OpenAI isn't enforcing its rules — but other platforms may protect us from its mistakes
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Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter
They're designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?
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How the chronological feed is making a comeback
Users mostly hate them — but regulators are increasingly requiring them. Why?
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The TikTok deal that wasn’t
PLUS: Another weekend of "Musk says"
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The content moderation problem that isn't going away
As Sama follows Cognizant out of the business, it's clear that no one has a good answer to workers' suffering
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OpenAI wants to moderate your content
Can a chatbot solve the hardest problem on the internet? Moderation experts weigh in
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Elon Musk's creep show
Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's disturbing spiral accelerates