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Lawyers on both sides of this case either admitted to directly using AI or admitted to rubber stamping legal briefs that had been prepared with AI without reviewing them. Some of the lawyers involved were unaware that cases could be hallucinated. www.404media.co/judge-learns...
Live-read of the Magnifica Humanitas part two: This section starts by covering truth, work and freedom (and unspoken: communication). Figured it will probably need its own thread. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Will there be a procedure in place after this? Or is this the next round of Calvinball? www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
Image models are not "a" model. Each component was built or integrated to solve a specific problem of computer vision — each engineered to automate a decision, each inscribing its bit of ideology into every generated image. My latest paper unpacks those decisions and what they…
Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-blac…
What is Cultural AI and the objects of its study? My paper addresses literary tools that can be borrowed to address cultural AI issues. The paper is on now ArXiv and forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies in Spring 2027. arxiv.org/abs/2607.02369
Big title points for this piece in the Times by Tiffany Hsu: Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet. Different from some other similar pieces in that it foregrounds Bernadette Meehan. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
So just about every philosopher in this piece either teaches at or has their PhD from NYU, which is the same place all the Vandy/Wash U report ppl met. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...
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Well this reads as quite the combo breaker, at least with agents powered by LLMs ~3 months ago, developer-submitted and LLM-created AGENT md files don't seem to improve task performance for python projects, but do burn ~20% more tokens arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers
“Whether AGI will arrive matters less than what waiting for it already organizes.” link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks
The reason people like the Pope’s AI missive is because there is simply no other institution has taken the side of humanity in the humanities sense. I’m not Catholic, but I am a human who cares about the human mind and the poetics Catholics call a soul.
Would like to assert, again, that there is no conflict in suggesting that a) the user experience of LLMs and image/sound/video models have improved and that the foundational AI critique is unchanged by this AND b) the user experience of technology creates new sets of problems worthy of examination.
Thomas Mann said that "a writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people." This is a reason writers hate generative AI: people who thought writing was easy never cared what the words said, and the LLM is a typewriter for when you don't give a shit.
Trump admin told Anthropic it needs to prevent foreign nationals from accessing its Fable models. It seems it will now ask for a selfie and ID from users, with data processed by Persona Industries, funded by Peter Thiel, whose Palantir Industries runs services for ICE.
There is a rebuttal to AI crit that goes: “you are assuming there is some mysterious, unnameable essence that makes people human.” The argument is then that we must somehow show evidence; ideally, that evidence would be quantifiable
There’s sometimes a sense that if you’re researching the effects of LLMs or Diffusion Models on culture or the user then you are condoning their use and naturalizing it: I would like to remind you that scholars also study the cultural effects of crack and STDs.
People keep insisting that LLMs are not next-token predictors anymore and I think we need to clarify two vocabularies between camps.
If the AI / Human intelligence distinction seems blurry it’s because the language is identical but emerges from ultimately incomparable systems. Our presence resolves the gap and makes it seem otherwise — language is always unifying the system instead of creating space to recognize the division.
I would like Gen AI to not use all that gas & water, and to not be built on data collected through deceptive means, so I can focus more cleanly on how the unchecked capitalist cult of productivity has created a demand for lazily deployed machines and what that does to our minds and culture
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