Katherine Argent (@effthealgorithm) / X

Katherine Argent

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Katherine Argent

@effthealgorithm

Woman of a certain rage. Reading for @fracturedlit. Writing for all the right reasons. Petting all the dogs.

Kansas City

Joined May 2012

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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Apr 30
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Oct 14, 2025
This tweet has gone viral and we all know why. No matter what Google claims, people don’t like AI Overviews. No matter what Meta claims, no one wants to watch an endless scroll of AI slop video. And no matter what X claims, only maladjusted creeps like its founder think anime
han 🐇
@hansoeii
Oct 13, 2025
YOU CAN TURN OFF AI IMAGES ON PINTEREST NOW!!!!
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Oct 14, 2025
Replying to @ZixSerro
Good point. My bad.
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Jul 20, 2024
“The study, which looked at 14,000 web domains that are included in three commonly used A.I. training data sets, discovered an ‘emerging crisis in consent,’ as publishers and online platforms have taken steps to prevent their data from being harvested.” Oh boo hoo. Shouldn’t
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Oct 14, 2025
AI appeals to those looking for easy ways to make money with little effort on their part. The natural grifters. The lazy. The ones always on the prowl for a way to take advantage of situations and people. They’re fine with making a handful of fast bucks and having everything
Gisele Navarro
@ichbinGisele
Oct 14, 2025
“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fans tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.” 🔗 futurism.com/artificial-int…
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Oct 21, 2025
Excited to use OpenAI’s browser? You should read this first.
Brave
@brave
Oct 21, 2025
The security vulnerability we found in Perplexity’s Comet browser this summer is not an isolated issue. Indirect prompt injections are a systemic problem facing Comet and other AI-powered browsers. Today we’re publishing details on more security vulnerabilities we uncovered.
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Jan 14, 2025
OpenAI is asserting in court filings that AI has a “right to learn.” Ponder that for a moment: they are claiming that what’s ultimately a computer program *has rights.* 🧵 1/4
Jason Kint
@jason_kint
Jan 14, 2025
Copyright theft is copyright theft. But pour one out for OpenAI's lobbyists who "published" an overtly self-serving strategy today with zero rules for its own biz and zero recognition of the entire publishing ecosystem they're attempting to rip and replace. But the mission. 1/3
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
May 23, 2024
They steal our content. They wipe out our traffic. They penalize us for having affiliate links or ads to make up for that loss of income. They tell us to ditch thin content, then later admit that GSC was underreporting clicks. They tell us expertise and experience are
Google Search Central
@googlesearchc
May 23, 2024
🏗️ Starting a live show 😮‍💨 Avoiding creator burnout These are just some of the topics @SEOJoBlogs and @MichaelChidzey discuss with @okaylizzi and @JohnMu in the latest #SOTRpodcast.
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
May 15, 2024
Tonight I end a 21-year blogging career. I wrote my very first blog post on 3 March 2003 on an old, long-dead blog in what seemed like another lifetime ago. In fact, it was. Blogging connected me to the world at a time my life was isolated and controlled in an increasingly
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Sep 29, 2024
Debunking the lie AI frees up humans to be more creative is easy: look at how many artists, writers/bloggers, and programmers have had to find other work in the past year because AI took their jobs. Also easy: debunking promises of UBI by realizing that it wouldn’t be necessary
neil turkewitz
@neilturkewitz
Sep 29, 2024
I usually disagree w/ @StevenLevy⁩. Not here. This is a brilliant take down of utopian tech exceptionalism of the type embraced by ⁦@sama⁩. Altman believes in a kind of trickledown intelligence & prosperity—wholly ignoring trickledown’s failure. link.wired.com/view/5fda497df…
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Dec 26, 2024
Replying to @atensnut
Brits: Why are Americans so fat? *Brits try biscuits and gravy.* Oh. *Brits try fried chicken and gravy.* Oh! *Brits try sweet iced tea.* OHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Jan 29, 2025
OpenAI, long indifferent to intellectual property, now howls that China has swiped their code. For years, they quietly trained their models on others’ work—books, blogs, forums, news—without consent, then preached that individual rights must yield to their grander vision. When
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Jul 30, 2024
Replying to @joncoopertweets
They’re weird.
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Katherine Argent
@effthealgorithm
Sep 28, 2024
Replying to @tsarnick
The camera didn’t steal peoples’ intellectual property then use it to put them out of work while making billionaires richer.
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