Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026For the latest issue of our Finely Tuned newsletter (on AI and investigative journalism) I sat down with my colleagues to get their raw thoughts on what it was actually like when I trained them on Claude Cowork: howardcenter.asu.edu/newsletters/... 010
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanMuckRock @muckrock.com · 03/06/2026At least three Arizona school boards have acknowledged destroying recordings of their official meetings before the legally required retention period has elapsed, a practice that threatens transparency, reports @shelbygrossman.bsky.social, @gaigedavila.bsky.social and Evan Wyloge. buff.ly/xSG3qEe 133
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026My contribution to the disco ball discourse is that when I first saw it I thought CarPlay was broken 020
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You might not think you need another AI newsletter in your life, but you do! Introducing: Finely Tuned, our new quarterly newsletter on AI and investigative journalism. howardcenter.asu.edu/newsletters/... 010
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanInternet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2026📢 Journalists: Have you used the Wayback Machine in your research or reporting? Share your story & support: ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/journalists/ 2455269
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/04/2026My team just launched The Beam, a new media outlet for Arizona. I’m particularly excited about something we built for parents: School Board chatbots. thebeam.org/arizona-scho... 102
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026🛡️ Meta just announced they’re shifting more content moderation to AI. Fortuitous timing: Anthony Mensah, Alex Stamos, Jeff Hancock & I have a new open-access paper out this week in PS: Political Science & Politics exploring exactly this. 🧵 260
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This is an amazingly incomprehensible Google Meet pop up 030
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Inspired by Platformer/Hard Fork, I vibe coded a new website while my kids were napping using Claude Cowork. It was so much fun. www.shelbygrossman.com 070
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Fascinating thread, fascinating situation providing evidence in support of the theory that in life so many things come down to the details 000
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026🧵 Possibly controversial hot take: AI companies’ PR teams are not showing what AI is actually good for. 140
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026👩🏫 I spent 6 months building something I’m super proud of: a course for journalists on using AI for investigations. It officially launched today! These approaches have already improved my own investigations. Get started: careercatalyst.asu.edu/programs/ai-... 294
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Today I drove 30 minutes out of the way to return to this post office to send a package. It was somehow more magical than last time. My son played at a kids table with board games (!!!) while I waited in the short line. The woman in front of me called it Phoenix’s best kept secret. 030
Reposted by Shelby Grossman🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My May paper with @shelbygrossman.bsky.social on AI-generated CSAM recommended that state lawmakers update mandatory-reporter laws to cover "nudify" incidents in schools. Now, Pennsylvania lawmakers are working to do just that, spurred by an incident our paper discusses. www.witf.org/2025/10/07/l...witf.orgLancaster Country Day AI incident moves lawmakers to push changes in mandatory reporting law | WITFThree Lancaster County lawmakers are working on legislation that would require school administrators to report the discovery of any artificially g […] 1153
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Agree with Riana. NCMEC staff are truly doing god's work, but many actors in this space lose their mind with the language NCMEC is using here. ⬆️ in CyberTips ≠ ⬆️ increase in harm. Claiming otherwise is misleading. And the AI problem is real, but many of these AI CyberTips may be failed generations. 063
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025🎒 My team is hiring for two positions! Your colleagues will be amazing, the Cronkite School is amazing, ASU is amazing, Phoenix is amazing. 👇 100
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025🍺 Are you a journalist in the Phoenix area thinking about AI? The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the Cronkite School at ASU is hosting a happy hour on Thursday, October 9 from 4-6pm. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comRSVP Form: Phoenix-Area AI and Journalism Happy HourDate: Thursday, October 9, 2025 Time: 4-6pm Location: A bar in uptown Phoenix. We will share the location with those who RSVP. Are food and drinks provided? We provide a drink ticket for the first 30... 010
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I've been playing around with Google Workspace with Gemini, and asked Gemini to make an image for a slide on LLM benchmarking. 250
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanDavid Thiel @grumplicio.us · 14/08/2025You know I would go out on a limb and say that a bot shouldn't do that to a 13 year old child either but I'm not a Meta AI policy person 3387
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 11/08/2025If you're not already subscribed to @indicator.media, it's worth it. It's helping me stay up to date on OSINT stuff. Today's newsletter was wonderfully in the weeds and fascinating. indicator.media/p/ai-enabled...indicator.mediaAI-enabled geolocation: A conversation with GeoSpy's Daniel HeinenHe said that using an LLM to do geolocation is "like using a chainsaw to do surgery versus a scalpel." 032
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025New NYT piece says NCMEC got 75,000 CyberTips from OpenAI w/ AI CSAM in 1st half of 2025. Our research suggests many involve failed generation attempts, but NCMEC can’t always clarify due to legal limits. AI companies should publish this breakdown. Right now, all reports are assumed to contain CSAM. 111
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Today’s App Store ad for nudify searches has the word “girls” 112
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Can anyone recommend an under sink reverse osmosis filtration system? 100
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The Apple App Store not only doesn’t block a “nudify” search, it accepts ads for this query 130
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I’m so excited to have joined the Howard Center for Investigative reporting at the Cronkite School! cronkite.asu.edu/news/2025/ne...cronkite.asu.eduCronkite School welcomes new Professor of Practice in AI and Investigative JournalismShelby Grossman joins the Cronkite School to advance work in artificial intelligence and investigative journalism. 1200
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025🎒 Check out our new report - a year in the making - on AI CSAM. Insights on schools & nudify apps, trends re: adults creating AI CSAM, and platform responses. Thank you to @safeonlinefund.bsky.social for supporting this project. 022
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I am one of the world’s biggest fans of This American Life, but it feels a little insane to me that none of this context was provided with this story www.kens5.com/article/news...kens5.comMurderer forged paperwork to get out of jailA few years ago Kwaneta Harris murdered her boyfriend and buried him in the backyard under concrete, then assumed his identity. Recently she tried another scheme to be released from prison decades ear... 5526
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025New Platformer article highlighting research by my colleague @rer.bsky.social 0163
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Reporters for these kind of stories need to find an expert who can provide a “this is complete nonsense” quote. 160
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025My totally amazing nanny is moving to Boston in March. If you’re looking for a nanny send me an email, shelbygrossman@gmail.con 021
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I’m a little late to this but I’m so grateful to Jimmy Carter for investing in The Carter Center’s “Educational Programs,” which includes their internship program. Their internship program changed my life, and I bet there are hundreds of intern alumni out there with a similar experience. 1828
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I went to a post office today and had a…positive experience. It was inside a compounding pharmacy. There was a check out counter for the pharmacy and a counter for the US Postal Service. And the phrase compounding pharmacy doesn’t capture the vibe - it was the kind of place that sold essential oils. 181
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Love that WSJ is on the pig butchering scam beat. Wild details here, including that a co-founder of the firm running the scam previously ran…a pig farm. www.wsj.com/world/asia/h...wsj.comHow a Young Mayor Turned Her Town Into a Hub for ‘Pig Butchering’ ScammersWSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans. 12110
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanBrian Fishman @brianfishman1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Cinder builds a cutting edge operations platform used for Trust & Safety, Responsible AI, etc. But we also were one of the only companies to publicly and proactively announce that we'd caught folks from DPRK surreptitiously trying to get into our hiring pipeline. www.cinder.co/blog-posts/n...cinder.coWe found North Korean engineers in our application pile. Here’s what our ex-CIA co founders did about it.Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it. 073
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024New insights from a local journalist in CAR who describes working for Prigozhin’s group. 060
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024New Human Rights Watch report on webcam studios in Colombia www.hrw.org/sites/defaul... 050
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I puzzled over this for a bit, as I had a baby on August 3, but then remembered I used Spotify for white noise in the hospital. 080
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Promoting favorable views of Russia in the post-Prigozhin era - an interesting case of an effort called Africa Initiative in Burkina 061
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Lots of useful Bluesky OSINT tips here 👇 0103
Reposted by Shelby Grossman🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Anyway here’s my brand-new case study with my coworker about some of the harms of AI-generated imagery, the latest entry in an entire body of work I’ve done at Stanford about AI policy that, if you believe today’s on-the-record congressional testimony, does not exist. 😘 to our haters 0539
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanConspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Over a million new Bluesky accounts were created yesterday. Unsurprisingly, some fakes are popping up here and there, such as this set of nine accounts with identical biographies and repeated banner images. 721187511
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2024It has now been >3 weeks since Blinken attributed African Stream to RT. TikTok, Meta, and Google have suspended African Stream. Twitter/X has not. African Stream continues to use their X account (88,000 followers and high engagement) to spread polarizing content about the U.S. elections. 090
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024It has now been a week since Blinken attributed African Stream to RT and its account (with almost 1 million followers) is still up on TikTok 040
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 20/09/2024African Stream has already respawned on Instagram 030
Reposted by Shelby GrossmanDavid Thiel @grumplicio.us · 18/09/2024Our first analysis that really overlapped significantly with the tankiesphere: aside from the staff largely coming from state media of autocratic nations, African Stream cross-promotes with Grayzone and George Galloway, and pushed many of the same narratives. 1/4 262
Shelby Grossman @shelbygrossman.bsky.social · 17/09/2024The @stanford.io just published a quick analysis of African Stream, a media operation that Blinken attributed to RT (formerly Russia Today) on Friday. cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/afri...cyber.fsi.stanford.eduAfrican Stream: Russia’s Latest Covert Influence Pipeline 1154