Meredith Martin

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.

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poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky

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@thetnholler.bsky.social

Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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  • Altman said the world 'should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits, drawing the line only at 'really catastrophic risks' like serious loss of control.
  • He put 'a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic's Dario Amodei on how heavy-handed AI regulation should be.
  • Altman called AI industry political spending 'clearly not working' and said he no longer gives personally because OpenAI does business with the government.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o... So excited to welcome @leifw.bsky.social to @princetoncdh.bsky.social next week! #leifweek

nytimes.com
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Matthew L. Jones @nescioquid.bsky.social

The response of key Fields-medal winning figures in the mathematical community to the OpenAI 'result' of Navier-Stokes carefully navigates, in turbulent waters hard to model correctly, the Charybdis of facile technological determinism and the Scylla of accusations of luddism. …

Declaration — Math and AI mathandai.org View on Bluesky →
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404 Media @404media.co

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare." www.404media.co/someone-tort...

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet 404media.co
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  • A GitHub user called 'terrafying' is running Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-4-mini on a live site that injects a 'pain signal' into their activations.
  • The project leans on a preprint titled 'The Pain Axis,' whose authors Cameron Berg and Valen Tagliabue have publicly disavowed the usage.
  • A tweet by a user named Danmar calling for mass GitHub reports has drawn more than four million views, reopening the 'model welfare' fight.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social

Great to see @mbarany.com here: leidendeclaration.ai

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics leidendeclaration.ai
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  • The Leiden Declaration, released June 2, 2026, warns AI threatens proof integrity, attribution, and peer review in mathematics.
  • Over 2,654 signatories including Fields Medal winner Terence Tao have endorsed the community-initiated declaration.
  • The International Mathematical Union backs the declaration, which makes separate recommendations to researchers, publishers, policymakers, and AI developers.
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@netopia.bsky.social

A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices ( the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
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  • Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
  • Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
  • Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.
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@emptywheel.bsky.social

VICTORY IS MINE!!!!!!! [I've been begging people to break the facade of Trump's spectacle forever. This is almost as good as catching NYT trying to steal my waterboarding scoop.] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

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austin @aparker.io

fun? I am in there. intheweights.com

IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
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  • Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
  • The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
  • Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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Authors who are filing claims in the Anthropic lawsuit -- are you all going 50/50? I can't find the contract for my 2012 book. I know I can ask the press but I'm also just curious how folks are doing this.

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