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Joshua Grochow

70 trust researcher @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 2,468 followers
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Research: TheoryCompSci, pure math, complex systems Other: climate; covid; equity, inclusion, & accessibility Assoc. Prof. @ CU Boulder Comp. Sci. & Math Views my own @[email protected] (& prev twitter) https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~jgrochow
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404 Media @404media.co

NEW: “I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam... What on earth is Google doing?” Google new AI tool lets anyone make up completely bullshit s…

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 404media.co
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  • Google launched an AI image feature in Google Earth on Thursday and pulled it within a day after 404 Media showed fabricated scenes.
  • The tool used Nano Banana 2 to render text prompts onto real satellite data, generating fake bomb craters, nuclear sites, and protests.
  • Named experts including Henk Van Ess and Ross Burley warned the launch could erode decades of built-up trust in Google Earth imagery.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social

Almost 30% of the submissions to the Neurips position paper track were deemed to be ai generated or heavily ai-implicated. blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...

AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
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  • NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4%) via Pangram; 123 more must prove human authorship by June 15, 2026.
  • Default Pangram window sizes flagged 42.7% of submissions; refined 100-word windows reduced that rate to 12.7%.
  • Comparison venues FAccT 2025 and NeurIPS E&D 2026 showed 0% and 2.1% maximum AI scores respectively.
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404 Media @404media.co

A company offering printed books to AI companies to train on because they’re free of AI slop has stopped after our reporting. Thanks to 404 Media subscribers, we’re able to continue reporting stories that bring real life impact. Read now: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage 404media.co
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  • ISBNdb ran a landing page titled 'Printed Books Sourcing for Your AI LLMs Dataset Needs,' offering physical books at up to one million per order.
  • After 404 Media's July 21 report, ISBNdb removed the page and said it 'has never purchased, scanned, or sold a book' for AI training.
  • The removed pitch conceded the 'optics problem' that 'AI company destroys two million books' is not a sympathetic headline.
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404 Media @404media.co

NEW: Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. “Caveman save you token, save you money.”

Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs 404media.co
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  • A plugin called caveman, written by Julius Brussee in early April, strips verbose model output and cut tokens by roughly 65 to 75 percent in his tests.
  • Shayne Sweeney, OpenAI's director of engineering, contributed code to caveman to support Codex, and developers at Nvidia and GitHub are reportedly using it.
  • GitHub shifted to per-token billing in April, Uber blew through its entire AI budget in four months, and Legrand's internal memo points staff at caveman.
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@caulfieldtim.bsky.social

⚠️ Another problem with AI: makes us worse at spotting bunk! The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news news.mit.edu/2026/consequ... "...participants who relied on AI systems to verify facts actually got worse at detecting misinformation on their own when their chatbo…

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@schnizzl.bsky.social

Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪 The answer is a clear no. [The findings] raise a sharp warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781 #SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder

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Large language model the size of a small language model

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Is it possible to add language to a copyright notice so that if someone knowingly feeds your work into an LLM as part of a prompt (not training) that it would infringe the copyright? Assume for the sake of discussion that using your work to train an LLM w/o your consent is a violation of copyright.

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Thanks genAI companies. I really appreciate that every website now has a "verify you are human" captcha. New badness: b/c of this, many tabs no longer stay cached, they revert to "confirm form (re)submission" (the captcha form). LLMs have definitely improved the internet in so many ways.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 6 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 36d ago

Programming is like what magic is supposed to be: you write just the right archaic symbols and *something very specific happens* (but be careful what you wish for etc.). LLMs are a bit more like the everyday experience with "magic": sleight of hand (can be very impressive or very disappointing).

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