Kashmir Hill

@kashhill

Privacy pragmatist. @nytimes journalist. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. Named after the Led Zeppelin song.

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Joined March 2009

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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill
Jun 13, 2025
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com
Kashmir Hill
@kashhill
Jul 16
My A.I. slop biography was selling for $27 on Amazon. (I don't recommend it.)
I Got Slopped (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com
Kashmir Hill
@kashhill
Jun 15
This tracks.
jessica dai
@jessicadai_
Jun 15
we analyzed >100k posts from r/ChatGPT over 3 years on one hand, we saw ChatGPT quickly become normalized as an everyday consumer product, which is pretty cool on the other hand…
Kashmir Hill
@kashhill
Apr 6
“If you think your child is not talking to chatbot companions, you’re probably wrong,” said Mitch Prinstein, co-director of the Winston Center on Technology and Brain Development at U.N.C. Chapel Hill. I talked to teens to see what they're doing with those A.I. chatbots.
What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots
From nytimes.com
Kashmir Hill
@kashhill
Mar 12
Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that:
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
From nytimes.com