Docket+ 9 February
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Below the paywall today -
* Grok, Deepfakes, and the Collapse of the Content/Capability Distinction
* Rethinking misinformation through plausibility estimation and confidence calibration
* Arrests, Disinformation and Local Journalism: Six Lessons from Minneapolis
* Grok, Deepfakes, and the Collapse of the Content/Capability Distinction
* Rethinking misinformation through plausibility estimation and confidence calibration
* Arrests, Disinformation and Local Journalism: Six Lessons from Minneapolis
Highlights
- The Situation: “It Used To Be a Beautiful Building” (Lawfare, 8 February)
- AI chatbots pose 'dangerous' risk when giving medical advice, study suggests (BBC, 9 February)
- The Wikipedia wars (EUvsDisinfo, 8 February)
- Slippery Slopes: Online Risk and the 2026 Winter Olympics (Graphika, 3 February)
- A Quarter Century of Nuclear South Asia: Nuclear Noise, Signalling, and the Risk of Escalation in India-Pakistan Crises (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 3 February)
LISTEN - AI, Surveillance and the Siege of Minneapolis (Tech Policy Press, 5 February)
1. Academia & Research
1.1 Platforms & Technology
- AI is dominating the world’s memory chips. That could make phones more expensive (Rest of World, 9 February)
- Enhancing Arabic healthcare fake news detection with data augmentation and multi-metric analysis using large language models (Nature, 9 February)
- The Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought (Tech Policy Press, 9 February)