Accelerating
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Signal
2h ago
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“Here's how to opt out of Twitch's new generative AI training setting.”
“everyone with a Twitch account is automatically opted in to Amazon using your stream to train its AI models. you have to deliberately opt out - a feature the platform is positioning as a nice little favor to its users :) www.404media.co/twitch-train...”
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3h ago
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essay how to talk AI
10 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“In a conversation about how to rephrase away from talking about "AI" "agents" as having "goals", I settled on software systems having success conditions. Updated here, under the cognizer/products of cognition category: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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Accelerating
AI field signal
Signal
6h ago
⚡ 4 h early
3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Qwen just dropped a big boi 2.4T huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”
“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”
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10h ago
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“Last week, an AI newsroom beat @wired.com and other outlets to break a major story by several hours. Here's @knibbs.bsky.social with the scoop on exactly how that happened, while I process the implications for the next 25 years of my chosen career:”
“I have glimpsed a dark vision of the future of blogging 😱 www.wired.com/story/ai-new...”
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7h ago
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OSF open science framework platform
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“Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A., & Guest, O. (2023). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...”
“*taps sign* Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women doi.org/10.31235/osf...”
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Olivia Guest: Ignoring this crucial distinction is BTW at the root of many instances of xenophobia/racism. People often assume that "defective" output (i. e. non-native register) equals a lack of cognitive capac…
Olivia Guest: I have lots on this angle of you're interested 🫶🏼 Sexism: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Racism: doi.org/10.48550/arX... Also... bsky.app/profile/oliv... and more but I'll not overwhelm you needlessly!
Iris van Rooij: Also here bsky.app/profile/iris...
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5h ago
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““In the AI circular marketing economy, tech pretends to be fashion, fashion pretends to be journalism and academia, and journalism and academia get gutted by tech. Young women most likely to be victimized by smart glasses become their ambassadors, feigning …”
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8h ago
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“✨New Work✨ forthcoming at #AIES2026: 1️⃣ "Data Annotation as Measurement" by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social explores how data annotation can go wrong, and how measurement theory can help improve it. 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07297”
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8h ago
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“The number of AI generated uploads to CGTrader would suggest AI is taking over the platform, but buyers are refusing to pay for AI generated models.”
“Bad content maybe doesn’t always drive out good? www.404media.co/ai-generated...”
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4h ago
platform obscurantism essay
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“What's consequential about generative AI isn't the interface, it's what lies beneath: cobalt mines in the DRC, lithium fields in the Andes, gas turbines burning methane in Black communities in Mississippi, workers in the Global South rating outputs for doll…”
“"Behind every chatbot prompt lies a material reality that extends deep into the earth," D&S advisor @alondra.bsky.social writes. "Understanding the political and ethical stakes of AI requires excavating what platforms work so hard to bury." limn.press/artic…”
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Signal
9h ago
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6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“«As a form of structural invisibility, AI is violent, not just biased.» Important new essay by @eugeniaunivie.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“In the latest entry in the Hype Studies series on Tech Policy Press, philosopher of technology and media scholar Eugenia Stamboliev writes that AI hype operates as "a gendered regime of visibility," normalizing synthetic images of women while erasing real w…”
Accelerating
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10h ago
⚡ 6 h early
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“Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence. Watch the full episod…”
“Mark Zuckerberg's deranged view on AI is a future no one wants Watch more and subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a24z...”
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9h ago
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“My latest piece is a little verbose, but I think it is really a nice example digging into a sort of knowledge work (and arguably science) that the models really aren't close to solving today -- writing something like a AI textbook in a well-known field. www…”
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7h ago
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“We already know how this turns out.”
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“Quoted here on AI companions, progressive attachment, and the design choices that makes a chatbot relationship feel like it's growing naturally when it isn't. san.com/cc/social-me...”
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“"These are a one-two punch aimed at academic freedom and shared university governance. Cornerstone of American higher ed, academic freedom claims for faculty the right to research and teach guided by their expertise rather than as directed by administrators…”
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11h ago
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AI slop backlash impact report
9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
““Consent is really important,” Broussard tells WIRED. “We can connect that to the way that women, queer people, people of color, and minorities get exploited and abused online. Tech companies have never really been sensitive to issues of consent.” www.wired…”
Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content." www.wired.com/story/the-ai...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
““I had no idea that my online interactions would one day be scraped en masse for AI model training. I didn’t ask for Instagram to enable deepfakes on my account. I didn’t want Google to push AI-generated answers at the top of search results.” www.wired.com/…”
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Emily M. Bender: The environmental damage is well documented at this point. I think the status of data centers as focal points of economic damage merits a little more expansion: www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
Emily M. Bender: On one level, we have the hyperscale data center build out being motivated by the alleged "need" for so-called "AI" systems and their economic advantage, which really amounts to their usefulness an…
Emily M. Bender: There is also the issue of tax incentives that local governments are sometimes bamboozled into giving, for industrial tenants who actually don't generate many local jobs, either. >>
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1h ago
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“Research reveals a pricing strategy that boosts revenue by offering one preferred service while screening urgency through flexible caps. This contradicts traditional pricing theories by showing that one product can meet diverse urgencies and reduce per-unit…”
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2h ago
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“Beautiful song about AI resistance, AI hype, technofascism, capitalism .. backed up by academic sources. #resist youtu.be/i6Sbu2Zf2SM?...”