David Elliot Berman

Assistant Professor @SetonHall. Former: @AnnenbergPenn @MIC_Center. Platforms, policy, political economy.

[激かわ動物 @Gekikawa_Dbts]

クロワッサンを食べるオウムの優雅な朝

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

from the top rope

[trans judeo-bolshevik @transjewtalian]

first time germany has been properly punished by an international body for anything

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and narrowing job prospects, AI has become the new avatar of American capitalism.

[Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D]

I'm going to keep saying it until people get it.

AI *is* mass surveillance.

All AI. Not some. All. By design and by default.

https://t.co/YsgeHkb2OJ

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“At some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading”—but that’s because not enough teachers are asking them to, Walt Hunter writes: https://t.co/6R4BDqfrGp

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language

Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT

Model collapse, except for humans https://t.co/nlfbEozhCJ

[nick catucci @catucci]

Most thoughtful take I’ve seen on sports betting, from the great @liz_franczak

https://t.co/uLPGWnREsD

[Matthew H. Young @matthenryyoung]

The earnest term paper written in the fevered haze of a caffeine and nicotine fueled all-nighter — of greater worth to me than the entire cumulative output of generative AI.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

The only good take on Olivia Nuzzi

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

The thing about AI I want to press people on is why capital feels compelled to invest in AI *in particular* and to the exclusion of everything else.

[Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco]

It’s a loss for humanity as a whole that we are losing cultural critics with keen eyes and sharp wits, then getting nothing in return but AI slop and influencers who ask Pedro Pascal what it’s like to be the Internet’s daddy

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

Every day an ostensibly serious person describes how they use ChatGPT—to write pretty passages, to rattle off fun hallucinated historical slop to them in the car—and it really is as though they’ve voluntarily hung a big, public sign around their neck that says: “I’m illiterate.”

[David Elliot Berman @_DavidBerman]

Thrilled that my article “On Optimization: Cultural Labor in Platform Capitalism” has just been published in New Media & Society! https://t.co/pq42y91jgt

[Dr. Alex Zawacki @achillghost]

Grad school

[Kassia Oset @KassiaOset]

This article title goes extremely hard

[MIC Center @MIC_Center]

Excited to announce our Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute's $1.2M award to partner with the City of Philadelphia to evaluate and support their NTIA-funded initiative to create a more digitally empowered city. @PSUBellisario @_DavidBerman
https://t.co/IwzgIuQjFB

[David Elliot Berman @_DavidBerman]

All that's solid melts into clickbait and hot takes.

[Isaac Gutierrez @byisaacg]

If Zach Lowe doesn’t deserve to be employed by your company then no one does. It’s like month by month we’re watching the company that used to define sports media wither away into nothing of substance

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.

Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff

https://t.co/FQYLQDaF1q