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““As it stands, if people don’t like what they hear, they can simply turn something off; the system outlined by Microsoft describes an environment where people can instead adjust someone else’s speech to their personal taste.””
“My fascist bullshit paper is about how "gen AI" fosters authoritarianism via dis- & misinformation & destroying epistemic trust & it already aludes to 1984 & references Arendt & Benjamin (Walter) & Eco & Fanon & Lorde & more & it is 6k+ words long & i would…”
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Hypervisible : Had to stop adding examples to the book at some point. New instances every day!
Damien Williams: My fascist bullshit paper is about how "gen AI" fosters authoritarianism via dis- & misinformation & destroying epistemic trust & it already aludes to 1984 & references Arendt & Benjamin (Walter) &…
Damien Williams: I'm real tired, fam!
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“The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Valen Tagliabue, Leonard Dung, Cameron Berg https://t.co/nYmPBylQ0Q [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/x4YlUD397V”
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“The whole terminology is fucked up in this paper The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It arxiv.org/abs/2609.16247 A model generating text learned from humans using language to express pain does not experience pain precisely it…”
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Grace: I will register some frustration with Anthropic, who tend to write about “functional emotions” in a way that makes it seems like “functional” is in a tiny font and “emotions” is in a huge one, when…
Grace: I also don’t want to draw strong conclusions about the “realness” of these emotions or sensations, other than to caution that it’s an area where it’s easy to jump to conclusions about the implicati…
Grace: I don’t want to downplay it too much, because I’m honestly not sure if I would’ve predicted it beforehand, but in hindsight it looks pretty expected given the pretraining objective. You should expe…
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““Understanding the True Purpose of Generative AI in Ads” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/11/02/microsoft-just-gave-us-the-perfect-name-for-ai-thieves-kyle/ > The narrator drops a precise timestamp, like he’s recounting the exact moment of a terrorist bombing ins…”
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Meta AI child abuse ads failure
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“Meta says it reviews all the ads that run on its platforms. The company, though, failed to ID several hundred ads containing graphic, AI CSAM material...some of which included images of real children. Scoop from @mattburgess1.bsky.social”
AI devastating higher education essay
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““If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily.” theconversation.com/friday-essay...”
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“#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Make Natural Language Processing About People Again' by @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2018) uncovers how AI models portray different religions and emotions. #AIEthics aclanthology.org/W18-1106”
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“My polling place was handing out AI slop to midterm voters.”
“A W E S O M E www.404media.co/voting-in-20...”
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“Who wrote that paper? AI use spurs debate over scientific authorship www.science.org/content/arti...”
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critical AI essay olivia science
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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.”
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“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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““Sisyphus’ work is boring, repetitive, simple, does not benefit others, and is not freely chosen. By implication, meaningful work should be engaging, varied, require the use of complex skills, benefit others, and be freely chosen.” link.springer.com/article…”
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“Absolutely thrilled to welcome Michael Liu to my lab, to study how AI impacts scientific knowledge production: www.princeton.edu/news/2026/10...”
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The Data Fix newsletter resource
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“A lot of new interest in data centers in the past few years, especially since AI, which is awesome, but I invite you to listen to Marina Otero's episode of The Data Fix for what it means to have been long committed to the topic -- as a scholar, architect, a…”
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“If you think technologies are inevitable, here’s a company pivoting from supersonic planes to burning gas to power data centres. Thumbs up.”
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Princeton buys students ChatGPT subscriptions
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“So tired, indeed www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...”
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“I was reminded of this thread, so quick update that the draft has been revised to include more impacts of GenAI on society (AI-human teams, civic discourse, qual research, AI and bias, and more), and of course more (more! more!) references. Cite *all* the t…”
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“Really very good visual story on AI agents and safety testing in the FT, featuring this vg quote from Stewart Russell ig.ft.com/ai-safety/?s...”
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