Watch Out, AI is Getting More Persuasive

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Alice Hunsberger, VP of Trust and Safety and Content Moderation at Partnerhero and former Global Head of Customer Experience at Grindr. Together they cover: Measuring the Persuasiveness of Language Models (Anthropic)Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Content and Manipulated Media (Meta) Survey: New Laws Mandate Access To Social Media Data, But Obstacles Remain (Tech Policy Press) Brazil Might Regulate All Social Media After Clash With Elon Musk (Guardian) X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs (Mashable)LinkedIn starts verifying recruiters to stop scams (Axios) Content policy is basically astrology? (T&S Insider from Everything in Moderation) Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).