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Nadja Schaetz

@nadjaschaetz.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 postdoc @uni-hamburg.de, co-founder of WAIHSS (Women* in AI, the Humanities & Social Sciences), formerly @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social journalism, critical data & AI studies www.nadjaschaetz.com www.waihss.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is going around as essential reading and for very good reason. Honestly the most incisive and full summary of the longtermism/x-risk pathology I have seen. Every stanza is a gem, and the closing is genius, but my personal favorite, because I have had this exact conversation almost verbatim:
[nitter.app post excerpt from banteg]

>someone asks where the one-in-a-million number came from
> expert judgement
>which expert
>us
>how calibrated
> extremely thoughtfully

›reduce estimate to one in ten million to be conservative
›still beats curing cancer by 38 orders of magnitude
›epistemic robustness achieved
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Unfolding my iPhone to show you a Meta Glasses recording of my final divorce proceedings
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Jens Temmen @jenstemmen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mal sehen ob das eine Welle der Solidarität in den Wissenschaften auslöst.
Ausschnitt aus dem Artikel, der einen der Programmpunkte der AfD wiedergibt. Text: „ 7. Gender-Studien und Postkolonialismus abschaffen
Nach Ansicht der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt handelt es sich bei Gender-Studien und Postkolonialismus nicht um Wissenschaft, sondern um politische Ideologien. "Wir werden deshalb bei den Verhandlungen über die Zielvereinbarungen mit den Universitäten und Hochschulen unseren Einfluss als Landesregierung nutzen, um darauf hinzuwirken, dass die Geisteswissenschaften wieder einem wissenschaftlichen Anspruch genügen", heißt es in Bezug auf die Gender-Studien.
Beim Postkolonialismus handle es sich letztlich "um nichts anderes als ein Programm zur Zerstörung der Europäischen Identität" und die "politisch motivierte Vernichtung der Wissenschaft".
Die AfD wolle prüfen, wie diese schädlichen Tendenzen zurückgedrängt werden können.“
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
NEW: One day after we revealed Meta was quietly building face recognition into its smart glasses, the latest version deletes it. Meta execs, who called our reporting "dishonest" and "misleading," continue to dodge our questions.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 26/05/2026
Google, how many rs in the word slop
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Human writers use em-dashes too
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
From the people who brought you the destruction of Gawker.... Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/c...
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Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Fascinating piece on the demands for and challenges of access to AI in American prisons.
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Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 10/04/2026
Just rewrite every single word and then you're done
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 13/03/2026
Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...
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Opinion | Me, Myself and My A.I. Sloppelgänger
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026
this is why i’m invested in public comms. this theory of change isn’t easily measurable & will take time, but it seems more viable to me than appealing to goodwill of big tech (or even govrmnt's & regulators, who either are in bed with big tech or won't do much if there is no public pressure) 5/
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Yes, I am one of the academics who likeness is being misused and appropriated without my consent by Grammarly's expert review. Livid doesn't even begin to describe it. Lawyering up does. 😡😤 #academicsky www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
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A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”
Grammarly's AI-powered "Expert Review" promises "writing feedback by subject-matter experts," and if you write about journalism, there's a good chance that includes you.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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?
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 23/02/2026
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.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026
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.
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/
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 13/02/2026
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:
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How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I enjoy the suggestion that generative AI is a lousy lay
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.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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”
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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.
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Nadja Schaetz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Honored to join @digitaljournalism.bsky.social’s editorial board and to be in such great company!
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
✨ 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....
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klaudia jaźwińska @klaudia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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...
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AI Chatbots Can Search the Web – So Why Don’t They?
Why AI platforms should be accountable for misrepresenting breaking news
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
hey did you see a headline on google? turns out that headline might be an llm hallucination www.theverge.com/tech/865168/...
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Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI
“This feature performs well for user satisfaction,” claims Google.
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Nadja Schaetz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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"
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Google traffic to publishers dropped by ONE THIRD in 2025 pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
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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.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them) @ginnybraun.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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/...
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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...
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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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):
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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...
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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...
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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...
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Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"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...
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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.
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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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.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/11/2025
I co-sign everything about this article so hard
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We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What? | NOEMA
Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/10/2025
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...
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Reiner @talismanisch.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Why do fascists dream of electric people?
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.
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Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The AfD's AI delusion: How Germany’s far right fantasizes about using AI to replace migrants. Just like JD Vance speech in Munich, the AfD’s electoral program is not just inhumane – it’s completely incoherent. This is not a bug, it's a feature. New column from me in @technologyreview.de
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Nadja Schaetz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There is a lot of work that detects and debunks AI hype. But what function does AI hype actually serve? Anna Schjøtt and I draw on 8 months of observations at the Associated Press to show how expectations on AI are leveraged to coordinate actors and mobilise resources: tinyurl.com/mwr2b6t3
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AI Hype and its Function: An Ethnographic Study of the Local AI Initiative of the Associated Press
Economic precarity and the competitive environment of the news industry have resulted in pressures for news professionals to become early adopters and foster AI in journalism. At the same time, pra...
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Nadja Schaetz @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Some unexpected good news: my paper has been nominated for Digital Journalism’s 2024 Outstanding Article of the Year Award! It contains interviews with journalists whose work I truly admire, so thank you to whoever shortlisted it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Documentary films by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline, BBC’s Panorama and Vice's HBO series were used to train major AI models without permission. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/thou...
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Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia
Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
There are a LOT of ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in the US right now. We've been keeping track at @wired.com—and, to make things easier on everyone, created this interactive visual guide. It'll be updated w/ any major developments: www.wired.com/story/ai-cop...
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Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
WIRED is following every copyright battle involving the AI industry—and we’ve created some handy visualizations that will be updated as the cases progress.
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