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#MoralPanic. For panicky reporters seeking attention, ChatGPT is the new YouTube. They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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#MoralPanic. For panicky reporters seeking attention, ChatGPT is the new YouTube.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?smid=tw-share

This is just idiotic. #MoralPanic. The Times crying AI will kill the truth: "A trust apocalypse is here." Without any examination of what the #BrokenTimes is doing to truth and trust.
Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/opinion/photography-truth-ai-images.html?smid=tw-share

This is just idiotic. #MoralPanic. The Times crying AI will kill the truth: "A trust apocalypse is here." Without any examination of what the #BrokenTimes is doing to truth and trust. Did the Camera Ever Tell the Truth? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

Axios doubles down on its AI #MoralPanic: OMG, they don't know how it works! We also don't fully know how aspirin works, but we still use it. After reading Axios, I need some.
Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/ai-llm-hallucination-reason

Axios doubles down on its AI #MoralPanic: OMG, they don't know how it works! We also don't fully know how aspirin works, but we still use it. After reading Axios, I need some. Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality www.axios.com/2025/06/09/a...

Scariest AI reality: Companies...

In Idaho, moral panics over partial nudity, and suggestively designed toys, is an emergency.

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/06/idaho-passes-emergency-truck-nuts-legislation.html

I think the word emergency has lost all meaning.
If elected, I shall declare a national emergency about the overuse of emergencies.

#MoralPanic #ConLaw #StateLegislatures #Censorship

Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113392
#KnifeCrime #MoralPanic #nigella

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113388
#JonathanHaidt #MoralPanic #OnlineHarms #ScreenTime

Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives

I’m not making this up:

https://bsky.app/profile/nigella.bsky.social/post/3lpo6flnqnc23

#knifeCrime #moralPanic #nigella

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms

The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing the results as if causative:

https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3lpaaktc6bc2x

Via:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/

#jonathanHaidt #moralPanic #onlineHarms #screenTime

Oh, eine neue Version des Narrativs, dass wir die jahrtausendealte Kulturtechnik der Handschrift verlieren:

#GenZ verlernt das Unterschreiben - Experten alarmiert

https://www.nau.ch/news/europa/gen-z-verlernt-das-unterschreiben-experten-alarmiert-66988517

Hintergrund dazu in einem Beitrag von mir:

https://text.tchncs.de/gisiger/handschrift-und-digitalisierung-was-die-forschung-wirklich-zeigt

#FUD #MoralPanic #Handschrift

I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic #MoralPanic decamps the Guardian. ‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Don’t ask what AI can do for ...

I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic #MoralPanic decamps the Guardian.
‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/19/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence

OMG, we have reached peak Douthat: reactionary, dystopian #MoralPanic so ridiculous it's hilarious. Watching him suffer existential angst brings a certain Schadenfreudig satisfaction.
Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/extinction-technology-culture.html?smid=tw-share

OMG, we have reached peak Douthat: reactionary, dystopian #MoralPanic so ridiculous it's hilarious. Watching him suffer existential angst brings a certain Schadenfreudig satisfaction. Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

Opinion | Come With Me if You ...

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