Tyranny of Permissionlessness

open source’s narrow focus further empowers those with other ways to exclude

Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness - George Pearson, 2021

Although social media has become a primary news platform, the effects of social media features on users’ information processing remains under-explored. This stu...

ChatGPT Voice can keep talking while it works - Sensemaker

OpenAI’s GPT-Live splits live conversation from slower search, reasoning, and agent work in the background.

A Theory of Messaging Styles & Ghosting.

Online communication tools serve many purposes. So does silence.

Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style

AI "writers" are seething after ChatGPT began refusing requests to mimic a specific author's style, living or dead.

Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code

We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.

ndrstnd: understand what your coding agent actually did

A local comprehension workspace that turns agent-produced branch diffs into an evidence-linked story.

In defense of not reading the code | Ben Shoemaker

Last week, I wrote an article whose purpose was to discuss where I saw AI-assisted coding going. That's not what generated 200 comments worth of passionate...

Attribution-Based Control (ABC) for Safe AI

ABC enables data owners to control AI usage while users verify sources. Solving hallucinations, privacy & trust at scale.

The Failure Mode of Clever

So, apropos of nothing in particular, let’s say you wish to communicate privately with someone you’ve not communicated with privately before, for whatever reason you might have. And, wa…

The artificial intelligence disclosure penalty: Humans persistently devalue AI-generated creative writing.

Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.