How AI changed the bargain between platforms and users
As Stack Overflow, Reddit, and others license their users’ posts to train AI, the internet’s extraction phase is accelerating
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I have been released from my responsibilities as an unwilling editor for Grammarly
Some overdue reflections by its CEO, and a class-action lawsuit, bring an end to “expert review”
Bluesky changes course
Jay Graber built something impressive but stagnant. Can a new CEO get it growing again?
Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it
The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?
Inside the backlash to the AI war machine
A protest at OpenAI headquarters suggests the backlash to military AI is growing — even if its politics are still half-formed. PLUS: The Pentagon declares Anthropic a supply chain risk