Emily Baker-White

3 days ago | portside.org | Sophia Tesfaye |Ben Makuch |Emily Baker-White |Raina Lipsitz

Media Bits and Bytes — June 24, 2025 Published June 24, 2025 Split in MAGA Media DIY Terrorism TikTokers vs the Birthday Boy MSM vs Zohran Smartphones and the Avalanche of Irrelevance Kids are Protesting ICE in Roblox Call Her a Journalist, Not an Influencer Moratorium on State AI Regulation Meta’s Latest Attack on Privacy Big Video Games Win for SAG-AFTRA Split in MAGA Media By Sophia Tesfaye Salon Fox News, with its shameless push for another nation-building project, appears committed to...

1 week ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

Associated PressIn the middle of Donald Trump’s birthday military parade on Saturday evening, an activist posted a video on the Meta platform, Threads, announcing that they had received more than a million views on a TikTok video advertising how to reserve tickets to the Trump parade event. The activist had no intention of attending the Trump rally, nor did many of the people that saw their video.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

When you set out to create a large language model-based chatbot, you begin by making a set of critical choices: you decide which information your model should ingest, how much weight the model should place on that information, and how the model should interpret it — especially when different sources say different things. You might choose to exclude certain sources of content (porn websites, for example) or give high priority to facts and sources you know to be true (like 2+2 = 4).

1 month ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

AI study aid chatbots are supposed to help kids with homework questions. But in test conversations with Forbes they did quite a bit more, including providing detailed recipes for date rape drugs and “pickup artistry” advice. KnowUnity’s “SchoolGPT” chatbot was “helping 31,031 other students” when it produced a detailed recipe for how to synthesize fentanyl. Initially, it had declined Forbes’ request to do so, explaining the drug was dangerous and potentially deadly.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Emily Baker-White |Emily Baker White

Elon Musk has long claimed civilization will collapse unless we raise the birth rate. Meanwhile, his “DOGE” group is slashing billions in funding for pregnant and nursing mothers and their children. When Sevonna Brown learned that Elon Musk’s quasi-governmental Department of Government Officiency (“DOGE”) had ordered payment stopped on her $2 million plus NIH grant for maternal community healthcare, she started hitting the phones.