Interdisciplinary researcher & teacher (Villanova Univ.). Infrastructure. Knowledge Commons. Re-Engineering Humanity. Tech & Humanity/Society. IP Theory. Lately, Friction-in-design, Age Gating. TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC3hmhHAUhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mttibbxcrc2eNew paper alert: Affective Context Amplifies Sycophancy in LLM Responses arxiv.org/abs/2608.21242 https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.2124224 Aug 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttibbxcrc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mtheb5j3pc2dA random chart from 2019 paper I didn't finish:19 Aug 2026 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtheb5j3pc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mtgqwj23ps2qCan’t wait for the rush of insightful articles explaining why the moral panic about diminished writing and thinking skills in genAI age is alarmist and fails to get the new possibilities that only the writers of such articles get19 Aug 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgqwj23ps2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mtbslt2wbc2oAgreed. Unfortunately, it’s a long running problem with no end in sight [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Aug 2026 13:27 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbslt2wbc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mt2bwfyocs2lGreat stuff [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Aug 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2bwfyocs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3msvk6bkm7k2wNew paper alert! https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medicine-and-ethics/article/antimicrobial-effectiveness-within-a-new-paradigm-of-infrastructure/B1C31EC8C83CA627A1A7A3F24815F90412 Aug 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvk6bkm7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mstofpxdrs2sA lot worth reading. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden One of my favorite lines: "Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a lot of collateral damage."11 Aug 2026 22:35 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstofpxdrs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mstdaxzawk2rOK, the rest of this week will be dedicated to reading scholarship and then writing tenure review letters. Pardon any missed emails, calls, deadlines, etc.11 Aug 2026 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mstdaxzawk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3mssyotlvj22rAny recommendations for academic/policy work explaining how AI integration (e.g., via surreptitious update) is a privacy problem (e.g., GenAI acts as conduit for personal information flows + persuasive/manipulative interactions that elicit more PI, shape privacy preferences, normalize surveillance)?11 Aug 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mssyotlvj22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/brettfrischmann.bsky.social/post/3msilvmc6es2dGreat decision. Resonates strongly with our recently published article https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol75/iss5/1/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2026 12:51 +0000at://did:plc:2mdade7fasa2hbcf2ymbvgr5/app.bsky.feed.post/3msilvmc6es2d