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Accelerating AI field signal Signal 2h ago
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Twitch is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“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...”

New AI field signal Analysis 3h ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

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.”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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 10h ago
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Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“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...”

New AI field signal Resource 7h ago
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OSF open science framework platform

OSF

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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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...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
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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New AI field signal Signal 5h ago

From Geek Chic to Surveillance Chic

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

““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 …”

New AI field signal Signal 8h ago

arxiv.org

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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”

New AI field signal Signal 8h ago
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AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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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...”

New AI field signal Analysis 4h ago
platform obscurantism essay

Platform Obscurantism - Limn

5 directory members surfaced this signal.

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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…”

New AI field signal Signal 9h ago
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How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Accelerating AI field signal Signal 10h ago
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Mark Zuckerberg’s 'Superintelligent' AI Future That No One Wants

3 directory members surfaced this signal.

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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...”

New AI field signal Signal 9h ago
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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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…”

New Culture, work & education Signal 4h ago

Social media stole our attention. AI companions are coming for our hearts. The legal battles may be next

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

“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...”

New Culture, work & education Signal 13h ago

VU AAUP Releases Statement Against the BoT’s “Declaration” and the Dept. of Education’s “Call”

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“"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…”

New AI field signal Analysis 11h ago
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AI slop backlash impact report

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

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

1 expert

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/…”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
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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What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

7 experts · 46 publicaciones · 22h ago
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Cat Hicks: I need to join Colin and leave Bsky but an observation: if your primary platform is physics YouTube personality & you attack a literal climate change scientist who publicly at great cost and risk c…
Cat Hicks: Gleefully leaping to accuse someone of plagiarism and argue they should lose their faculty job for imagined offense, wow, I wonder where we've seen that playbook directed at scientists before To ha…
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