Lead editor, AI innovation in journalism at McClatchy. Former News & Observer I-team. Duke University adjunct. 2017 Nieman Fellow. Powered by gas station coffee and eastern NC barbecue.
Tyler Dukes
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I wrote about WIDOW'S BAY, where the past keeps coming at you even after you kill it with buckshot and fire [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...
something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
A bit of news to share. After nearly 6 years at McClatchy and a lifetime in North Carolina, I'll be joining the faculty of @ufjschool.bsky.social this fall as the Knight Chair of Journalism and Technology. www.jou.ufl.edu/2026/06/09/t...
Tyler Dukes will join the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) as the Knight Chair in Journalism and Technology in the
www.jou.ufl.edu
Humanity's ability to know, reason, judge, and act well is the foundation of science, democracy, crisis response, & management of AI itself.
AI poses serious risks to that foundation.
New paper on epistemic risks by 30 experts calls for attention and proposes solutions. Link in thread.
New on @indicator.media: I ran an adversarial audit of Pangram, one of the buzziest AI text detectors out there. It claims a 99.98% accuracy rate.
I was ultimately able to get Pangram to misidentify AI text as human 85.7% of the time in an adversarial set of 588 text samples.
DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...
If you get your bot to rhyme / Pangram will misclassify it many a time
Impact from @amb-balam.bsky.social's investigation into American Log Homes and Cabins, which shut down and left many customers without a clear way to get tens of thousands of dollars in deposits back. (🎁🔗) www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busines...
Jonathan Stray
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
Absolute banger of an investigation by @mayakaufman.bsky.social and her co-reporters here!
Judgmental appliances! See, this is why we don't need "AI" in our machines. They already have opinions.
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes.
We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way
www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Maya Kaufman
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
