Wedgewood Polls says it fabricated data in surveys picked up by national media outlets as a "social experiment" to expose the lack of scrutiny over the sector (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/21/poll…
When we start outsourcing thinking to AI and allow to lose accountability, bad things happen.
On July 14, 2025, Angela Lipps was babysitting in her Tennessee home when police arrested her for fraud. She was held in a local county jail until October, then moved to a Fargo jail until December 24, when a judge dismissed the charges. She was released into a frigid North Dakota winter with only the summer clothing she had been wearing when arrested in Tennessee.
It turned out she had …

AI Agnotology, Cognitive Surrender, and Policing Accountability | Stanford Law Review The @… people are hard at work and keep pushing updates. Great work!
Law enforcement agencies have increasingly employed artificial intelligence (AI) in their investigatory methods and technology. This usage, however, raises critical concerns regarding the accuracy and fairness of such practices. Additionally, this issue highlights the urgent need to identify accountability mechanisms and guardrails to protect against misuse and bias. In this Essay, Professor Jeffrey L.
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AI doing its thing… Thursday’s ride was 70km…. 🤷♂️
#cycling #bike #biketooter
📰 Die deutsche Militärküste
#Nachrichten
This was AI coded over a couple of half day sessions. A lot of the design came from the AI too. This is the first project where instead of giving precise instructions I asked Claude to come up with its own ideas. I still shaped it but it's a little unsettling how many good ideas the AI had. Like the general design of facets and the slicing UI, and specific ideas like "have a link to highlight queer sf".
RE: #CloudGlider