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→ Inside #Google’s plan to have #Hollywood make AI look less #doomsday
latimes.com/entertainment-arts

“The effort comes at a time when many Americans have mixed feelings about AI. […] 56% of Americans see AI as doing "equal amounts of harm and good," while 31% believe AI does "more harm than good."”

“Negative public perceptions about #AI could put tech companies at a disadvantage when [legal cases] go before juries of laypeople. That’s one reason why firms are motivated to makeover AI’s #reputation.”

Illustration of two robotic hands forming a movie frame with a smiley face in the center
Los Angeles Times · Can these short films convince people that AI is a force for good?By Wendy Lee

Andrew Harnik's report for Axios unveils a remarkable decline in the reputations of Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX. The Axios Harris Poll reveals Tesla's shocking drop from 8th to 95th place, with low scores in character and ethics, while SpaceX's reputation shifted from 'excellent' to 'fair.' This decline has extended to Musk’s political standing as well. For further details, [read it here](axios.com/2025/05/20/axios-har). Kudos to Harnik for this insightful analysis. #ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX #Reputation #Poll #Axios #PublicOpinion

Side-by-side line charts showing the Harris 100 reputation scores for Elon Musk-owned companies: Tesla, SpaceX and X. Tesla and SpaceX have seen sharp declines in the past four years. X has seen a much slower decline.
Axios · Tesla, SpaceX reputations crater in new Axios Harris Poll 100By Dan Primack

A quotation from Will Rogers

If a bank fails in China, they behead the man at the top of it that was responsible. If one fails over here, we write the men up in the magazines as how: They started poor, worked hard, took advantage of their opportunities (and Depositors) and today they are rated as “up in the millions.” If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn’t have enough people left to bury the heads.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1927-02-06), “Weekly Article”

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Ars Technica: AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests. “On Thursday, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study showing that employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/11/ars-technica-ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Ars Technica: AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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U.S. retail giant overtakes Google as Canada's most reputable company
Costco Canada has claimed the top spot in a new market ranking of Canada's most reputable brands.Leger, a Canadian market research and analytics company, has just published the results of its 28th Reputation study, which unveils the list of the country's top reputable companies. The company surveyed over...
#business #ranking #reputation #politics #Canada #USA
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🚨"Europe just canceled $25B in US military deals. NATO allies are planning to replace American l'ship. Japan, France & the UK are prepping deployments w/o us. And now Trump says allies only get ‘toned-down’ jets bc ‘someday they’re not our ally.'
News flash: They’re already walking away."
-R Saddler

Trump is destroying the , , America's , , , , , , , relationships with allies, , ...

TechCrunch: ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations. “OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe over its viral AI chatbot’s tendency to hallucinate false information — and this one might prove tricky for regulators to ignore. Privacy rights advocacy group Noyb is supporting an individual in Norway who was horrified to find ChatGPT returning made-up […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/techcrunch-chatgpt-hit-with-privacy-complaint-over-defamatory-hallucinations/

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It Isn’t Just #Trump.# America’s Whole #Reputation Is Shot. nyt nytimes.com/2025/03/13/opinion #Trump does not seem 2 notice or care that if you betray people, or jerk them around, they will revile U. Over last few weeks Europeans have gone from shock 2 bewilderment to revulsion. This period was 4 them what 9/11 was for us the stripping away of illusions, the exposure of an existential threat. Europeans have realized that America, the nation they thought was their friend is actually a rogue superpower.

The New York Times · Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.By David Brooks

A quotation from C. C. Colton

The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man, therefore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it, and this will teach him so to live as not to be afraid to die.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 555 (1820)

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