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David Mimno

Information science professor at Cornell, machine learning

571 trust researcher @dmimno.bsky.social · 6,776 followers
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Information science professor at Cornell, machine learning with public evidence across AI research.

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He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social

If you liked Bears Will Be Boys, you might enjoy our new FAccT paper! We prompted LLMs to complete 24K stories about animal characters where gender is unstated. We found that.. bears are *still* boys. And female animal characters disappeared while "neutrality" increased. arxiv…

Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories arxiv.org
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  • Across 23,800 AI-generated stories, feminine animal characters appeared in just 2.2% versus 40.6% masculine.
  • Models avoided assigning any gender 19% of the time on average; gender-neutral 'it/its' pronouns appeared in 38.2% of stories.
  • The authors argue AI neutrality can erase marginalized identities rather than protect them, challenging a common alignment assumption.
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social

A 15.9M-parameter specialist OCR model outperforms many VLMs hundreds of times larger. On a 2,165-page historical eval dataset, Kraken PP-OCRv6 ranks #4 on reading CER and #1 when long-s, ligatures and case are preserved. huggingface.co/spaces/fineb...

BHL OCR Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by finebooks huggingface.co
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  • rednote-hilab's dots.mocr (3B) leads the FineBooks BHL leaderboard at 97.6% reading accuracy across 2,165 expert-transcribed pages.
  • Sub-2B models OvisOCR2 (0.9B, 96.9%) and PaddleOCR-VL-1.6 (1B, 96.1%) come next at under $0.50 per thousand pages.
  • Ground truth covers only Antiqua typefaces in English, French, German and Latin; Fraktur, handwriting and multi-column layouts are excluded.
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social

OCR for Japanese manga, Swedish handwriting or Arabic print? There’s a growing range of OCR models on @hf.co: VLMs, dedicated text recognisers and complete OCR pipelines. I’ve gathered 41 models into four collections, with short notes to help you choose: huggingface.co/collect…

OCR on the Hub - a davanstrien Collection huggingface.co
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  • davanstrien's OCR on the Hub groups models into four sub-collections covering documents, languages and scripts, handwriting and archives, and text recognition pipelines.
  • The languages sub-collection covers Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean and Devanagari; handwriting spans Swedish, Norwegian, German Kurrent, Tibetan, and Hebrew-script manuscripts.
  • The text recognition sub-collection features Kraken and PaddleOCR pipelines for documents, manga and text in photographs.
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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social

✨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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I’m all for serious penalties for hallucinated citations. But there’s a reason one of the rules of my lab is “Don’t try to solve Library Science”.

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Cars are a surprisingly good model for public acceptance of AI. Some people love them and tinker with them. Others hate and reject them. Most find their own car useful. But everyone viscerally hates everyone else's car: traffic, parking, dangerous driving, pollution, etc.

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Can anyone suggest even one single reason anyone would ever want to watch an AI generated video beyond gee-whiz novelty? Who wants this?

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“Never trust an AI executive with a bunker” -Brent Hecht

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I googled a quote I half remembered ("one bite from the sunny side of the peach"). No results, but I thought I'd try the AI mode. It said this was Diderot criticizing Rousseau. I asked for a source, and it pointed me to Scott's Waverley (the correct answer it seems). What happened to Diderot?

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