By R. Buse Çetin (AI Forensics) and Natalia Stanusch (AI Forensics, University of Amsterdam) The European Commission's designation of ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine and the Digital Omnibus's coordination provisions mark progress in AI Search regulation, but leave critical gaps that can be exploited. Without mandatory coordination and documentation requirements, regulators would be unable to assess whether mitigation strategies are adequate. We propose the following measures using existing authority: mandatory AI Act documentation for DSA assessments, joint review procedures, and expanded moderation definitions including pre-deployment design choices.

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

Last week I was part of the Digital Methods Summer School 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. This year’s theme was ‘visual AI for internet research: on and beyond slop’. I was part of a project on A...

The aim of this research is to identify AI imaginaries, the issues they raise, and how the AI industry tackles them. It does so by choosing an opportune moment ...

We provide an overview of the most relevant changes and shifts between traditional search engines and AI search functionalities. This report also offers a framework for situating AI search in the curr...

Our investigation reveals TikTok's systematic failures in applying election information labels during Poland's 2025 Presidential Election. The platform excluded 20+ million Polish diaspora users from ...

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È stata ribattezzata “la fabbrica dei fake”, la fuga di informazioni che ha portato alla diffusione di migliaia di file provenienti da Social Design

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I believe AI is a political tool. I believe this because I believe that AI, and much other technology, is something of an ideological frame: a set of social fictions that is deployed to justify certai...

Last year, Meta allowed thousands of paid ads containing sexually explicit imagery on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram

This paper analyzes memes collected from Imgur that concern users’ encounters with algorithmic recommendations. Such encounters, mobilized, performed, and circulated via memes, can reveal algorithm...