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Jed Brown

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Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown https://PhyPID.org | aspiring killjoy | refuse epistemicide | he/they
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I'm proposing a bookclub on this list by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on fighting back on data politics (term coined by Tressie). A couple of other books I'm going to add is, "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna & "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. www.nytimes.com/…

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Why would you make a blanket statement that "core content is retained"? arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language arxiv.org
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  • Heavy LLM users produced nearly 70% more essays that stayed neutral on the topic question, and reported the writing felt less creative and not their own.
  • Even when asked only to fix grammar in 2021 human-written essays, LLMs significantly altered the semantic meaning of the text.
  • About 21% of peer reviews at a recent top AI conference were AI-generated, and those reviews scored papers a full point higher on average.
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It's notable that the report has been out for 8 months and this was only detected because an "AI" vendor (GPTZero) had an adversarial interest. So much for the discernment capabilities of business/finance/executives. www.ft.com/content/b382...

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Never forget that "everyone is cheating now" is literal marketing for the vendors. Demand to purchase these products is unperturbed by learning about harms, and overwhelmingly driven by perceived peer use. The solutions are necessarily systemic. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

pnas.org
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  • In experiments on roughly 2,000 parents of 13-to-18-year-olds, willingness to pay for a premium AI subscription rose $1.83 for every 10-point jump in perceived peer take-up.
  • Moving the scenario from 20% to 80% peer usage lifted parental spending by more than 60%, or about $11 for a three-month subscription.
  • Telling parents GPT-4 users scored 'just under 20% lower' on later math tests raised ban support from 44% to 57% but barely moved willingness to pay.
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@brettcodes.bsky.social

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm…

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social

We hear so much about AI being "inevitable," but much less about the fact that how it is used is a result of humans making choices. Decisions about AI and education are being made every day by Alpha Schools, by universities, and today by NYC. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools - NYC Mayor's Office nyc.gov View on Bluesky →
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Olivia Guest @olivia.science

💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF osf.io
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  • A 2023 preprint argues AI development follows a 'Pygmalion displacement' pattern, progressively replacing women with technological objects.
  • Authors trace the pattern to Turing's imitation game, calling displacement 'unacknowledged' in AI's foundational thought experiment.
  • The paper proposes a 10-question diagnostic tool to identify when Pygmalion displacement is occurring in a given AI system.
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So maybe there wasn't enough political capital to course-correct the 67% error-rate "assistant", but surely people on the inside could exercise some caution about new projects. Lol, no. Lip service to validation and governance, but always full steam ahead. newsnetwork.mayoclin…

newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org
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"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.

Critical AI olivia.science
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