Kashmir Hill

Privacy pragmatist. @nytimes journalist. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. Named after the Led Zeppelin song.

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are in fact living in The Matrix.

It sends these people into delusional spirals.

Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.

https://t.co/9IL5rbNy8v

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

.@katierosman and @el_belson on Dianna Russini’s fall from grace:

https://t.co/7GJpO4FoRX

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

This tracks.

[jessica dai @jessicadai_]

we analyzed >100k posts from r/ChatGPT over 3 years

on one hand, we saw ChatGPT quickly become normalized as an everyday consumer product, which is pretty cool

on the other hand…

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Absolutely insane story even by @kashhill insane story standards. A must read https://t.co/NHe9idF5fg

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

Absolutely wild story from @kashhill https://t.co/Nu4WyViALF

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Again, a free gift link to the story here: https://t.co/ta1LHRMv2H

My previous reporting on predator catchers and cryptocasino gambling streamers (all free gift links):
https://t.co/Qcov3Vzxyf

https://t.co/vA32UJW3aR

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Vitaly was banned from Kick a few days after the disastrous stream with Akash. But the ban didn't last long -- he's now back, and streaming himself gambling on Stake (where he has a deal). He says that he's going to Europe soon to conduct more predator catches.

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Akash's lawyers may take legal action if a settlement is not reached, he told us. Vitaly's lawyer said that “Vitaly categorically denies any allegations of illegality or intentional wrongdoing.”

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

By the next day, everyone realized a mistake was made. The police told Akash and his father that he was innocent. Akash reached out to Vitaly, who would put out an apology for the stream. And Vitaly had gone viral -- for his mistake.

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Akash immediately called the police once he realized what was going on -- he knew Vitaly, and had often seen predator catching videos in his Twitter and Instagram feed before.

The police showed up, arrested him, and asked Vitaly if they could pose for a picture with him.

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

It turns out that the decoy who was working with Vitaly forgot to write to the man, Akash Singhania, that she "was actually 16" (she's not 16, but this is To Catch a Predator scheme they run). She got her apps mixed up. So he thought he was just meeting a normal, legal-aged woman

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

Free gift link to the story:
https://t.co/KhNA6FGEBw

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

In April, a 25-year-old man was visiting LA and met a girl he met on an app for anonymous hook-ups. Soon after he met her, @vitalyzdtv, livestreaming to 24,000+ viewers on Kick, jumped out of some bushes and flasely accused him of being a pedophile.

From me and @kashhill

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

What a nightmare this piece is, about a young guy who gets ambushed by internet vigilantes who falsely accuse him of being a child predator on a ginormous livestream.

This kind of stuff really makes me pity the Gen Z dating scene.

Getting to know strangers is hard enough without recording devices turning the world into a panopticon, and every night into a potential viral humiliation, and meanwhile there's a tiny part of you worried the person you're messaging is working with an online celebrity to publicly shame you.

https://t.co/wswejshsLA

[Katie Robertson @katie_robertson]

New: McClatchy journalists at newspapers in 4 states are now withholding their bylines from A.I.-generated content as tensions grow over a "content scaling agent" tool that the company rolled out https://t.co/lObSuAlMBc

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

@AnettHalbstunde

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

“If you think your child is not talking to chatbot companions, you’re probably wrong,” said Mitch Prinstein, co-director of the Winston Center on Technology and Brain Development at U.N.C. Chapel Hill.

I talked to teens to see what they're doing with those A.I. chatbots. https://t.co/qZF6ST7vdC

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: https://t.co/TnvaePD4EM

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

@nyttypos eek ty

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants

story w/ @sheeraf

https://t.co/cyKUIkioC0

[Kashmir Hill @kashhill]

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin.

The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.

💝 link: https://t.co/CyaPo0aexa