Nadja Schaetz

John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Just off the top of my head, I’ve seen notable AI theorist talk about how in their conception of what intelligence means women aren’t intelligent, and that the purpose of AI is to create an economic over layer that can permanently detach itself from its host. Maybe these views inform the project.

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

I was part of a round table on how NYT is covering the Epstein files, with new tech and old-school reporting. Our work is far from over:

Chatbots were also bad at building sexual tension — the slow-burn, will-they-or-won't-they plotlines that romance readers crave. When told to craft a love scene, the bots usually jumped straight to the obvious narrative climax.

I enjoy the suggestion that generative AI is a lousy lay

The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude? As AI systems grow more powerful, Anthropic’s resident philosopher says the startup is betting Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to avoid disaster.

There’s so much I have to say about this, much of which is in my book. But the lack of critical questioning and the last two sentences of this article encapsulate everything wrong with tech journalism:

“Like it or not, however, we’re strapped in for the ride. At least Anthropic has a plan”

Honored to join @digitaljournalism.bsky.social’s editorial board and to be in such great company!

✨ New publication by lab member @annaschjoett.bsky.social with @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social!
This ethnographic study explores how journalists interface with online courses on AI use in the newsroom, what they learn, and how didactic material may be biased.
Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AI Chatbots Can Search the Web – So Why Don’t They? Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news

When ChatGPT said that the US capture of Maduro didn't happen, Wired characterized it was "expected behavior." But @aisvarya17.bsky.social and I think AI platforms' failure to activate web search for a breaking news-related query is not expected, it's a product defect. www.cjr.org/tow_center/a...

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI “This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.

hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...

🙃 Maggie Nelson in "The Art of Cruelty"

Maggie Nelson: "For not only do our work and words speak beyond our intentions and controls, but compassion is not necessarily found where we presume it to be, nor is it always what we presume it to be, nor is it experienced or accessed by everyone in the same way..The same might be said of cruelty"

Global publisher Google traffic dropped by a third in 2025 Google search traffic was down globally by a third in the year to November, according to new Chartbeat data.

Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

Now published…

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do ChatGPT and Bard respond to homophobic prompts across different cultural and religious contexts? New research reveals a tension between cultural relativism and universal human rights in generative AI: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#AIEthics #GenerativeAI #HumanRights

I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Germany’s Data Center Boom is Pushing the Power Grid to its Limits - AlgorithmWatch As Europe pursues the vision of becoming an AI continent, the AI infrastructure boom in Germany is already exposing the limits of the energy supply and physical infrastructure. And the question remain...

Over a third of Frankfurt's electricity goes to data centers,
had no idea Germany was going all-in on AI infrastructure.

algorithmwatch.org/en/germany-d...

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves." This
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
piece about journalism grifters in the age of AI slop is fantastic, bonkers & sad on so many levels thelocal.to/investigatin...

It’s so frustrating….

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.

@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed

www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? | NOEMA Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.

I co-sign everything about this article so hard

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

Why do fascists dream of electric people?

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

@nannathylstrup.bsky.social

@jonasfegert.bsky.social

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

Congrats!! 🎉