this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology.
functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age.
when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify
(tired and drunk while playing Clue) Fuck I dunno...
my eyes just rolled straight out of my fucking head
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"an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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kevin roose and casey newton are ending Hard Fork and starting a "new media venture that takes AI progress seriously"
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Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult
This is a big sleeper issue. Nitazenes are the next wave of the opioid crisis, and the Trump administration has been undermining and defunding the federal programs that study, prepare for and respond to emerging drug threats. I’ve been leading the charge on this to mobilize a federal response.
"Instead, she urged educators to accept that most future writing would be produced in a partnership between artificial intelligence and human discernment." Grammarly head of education in article about how AI companies are producing both cheating detectors and cheating tools.
Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."
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Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety
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A drug up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl and 500 times stronger than heroin is increasingly being detected in the US. Bellingcat produced the most detailed account yet of how nitazenes are infiltrating US borders and destroying lives. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...
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New deadly drugs up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl and 500 times stronger than heroin have been found in 48 of 50 American states.
