Assigned Media has been AI free since the beginning. Our new AI policy makes that easier for readers to find and formalizes what we mean by AI free, what we'll do if we unintentionally publish AI slop, and how you'll know if anything changes for us.

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🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

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As for the question of where GenAI fits into this: maybe it can do some technical activities faster than humans. But why do we want cultural work to go faster than we can? What is the point? What is the goal? Who does it serve? What system? And what do we lose when we don’t do our own cultural work?

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Sleeps here:

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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