Readings

• Algorithmic people-pleasers: Are AI chatbots telling you what you want to hear?

• Generative Echo Chamber? Effect of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking. You can also check the authors’ presentation:

• Using AI to detect COVID-19 misinformation and exploitative content, also see IEEE’s report

• Social media and the age of AI misinformation | Aishwarya Reganti | TEDxJacksonville

• AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports

• Is Sienna Rose AI-generated? New music artist divides listeners

• Seeing is no longer believing: Artificial Intelligence’s impact on photojournalism

• People are more susceptible to misinformation with realistic AI-synthesized images that provide strong evidence to headlines

• Deepfakes Aren’t the Disinformation Threat They’re Made Out to Be

• GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

• As Springer Nature journal clears AI papers, one university’s retractions rise drastically

• Researchers who are using generative AI to write scientific papers are publishing a significantly higher number of studies

• More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance

• How AI is transforming research: More papers, less quality, and a strained review system

• AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System

• 1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship or knows someone who has

• Why AI companions and young people can make for a dangerous mix

• Snap settles social media addiction lawsuit ahead of trial

• Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work