Episode Details

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Platformer)
• Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers (Engadget)
• Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature (Wired)
• Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (NY Times)
• Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media (Guardian)
• UK: New Molly Russell documentary provides further evidence that social media needs complete redesign (Amnesty International)
• WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens (TechCrunch)
• Meta urged to boost oversight of fake AI videos (BBC)

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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).