The Who's Who of AI
What the AI community is actually reading and debating — the articles its researchers, builders, ethicists and critics are sharing, and the discussions they're having, ranked by standing inside the field.
Reading
What the directory is reading
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
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SE Gyges: us government has rendered it illegal to give access to fable or mythos to foreign nationals ^_^ www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
SE Gyges: this means nobody can have either of them btw. because they haven't KYC'd their customers hard enough.
SE Gyges: dario got what he wanted
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When AI builds itself
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Ethan Mollick: "As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude" Matches independent measures. There is no sign this is slowing down (which …
Scott McGrath: "As of May 2026, more than 80% of the code we merge into Anthropic’s codebase was authored by Claude" Matches independent measures. There is no sign this is slowing down (which …
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I had one interview with a hiring manager where he said they don't write code anymore, and they expect not to be reviewing code by the end of the year. Said they mainly spend th…
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
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Joseph Cox: This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker g…
Aram Sinnreich: This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker g…
Gergely Orosz: Yeah Meta / Instagram just finished gutting their Trust & Safety org who are responsible for this area as well. bsky.app/profile/gerg...
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
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Jason Koebler: honestly, not a serious technology www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
Hagen Blix: Serious technology ❌ Serious hazard ✅
404 Media: honestly, not a serious technology www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
shared by Prof. Catherine Flick, Mar Hicks, Social Media Lab, Lana Sinapayen, Mark Riedl, Andrew Couts +7 more
““Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion [phone] app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta…”
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
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Mar Hicks: Preprint research from Cornell: "We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to …
Mar Hicks: This suggests that motivated actors can potentially alter AI search results with very little effort… will be interesting to see if this pans out in practice and what kinds of ha…
Ryan Calo: I think this should constitute inadequate security papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
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dell cameron: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over…
Justin Hendrix: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over…
dell cameron: While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers …
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good
shared by Marielza, Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij, Rosamunde Van Brakel, Scott McGrath, Sasha Costanza-Chock +2 more
“Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
shared by Meredith Martin, 404 Media, Eileen Clancy 🧿, Luke Stark, Mark Riedl, Joseph Cox +4 more
“An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learn…”
‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
shared by Jason Moore, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Mary Branscombe, Veni Kunche, Hypervisible , Neil Turkewitz +5 more
“How can the leaders at Meta continue to be so clueless year after year after year.... It isn't rocket science to know what users & employees want. I could run this company in my sleep www.wired.com/story/mark-z... #me…”
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
shared by Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo, Hypervisible , Iris van Rooij, Luke Stark, Lucy Li, Michael Zimmer +4 more
“"The omnipresence of ChatGPT has forced a conversation about the value of academic work, the role of public universities and the perils of partnerships with private industry." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...”
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
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Jason Koebler: In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and ca…
Marielza: In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and ca…
Neil Turkewitz: Equal justice under law?
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
shared by Djamé 🟥, 404 Media, Jason Koebler, Social Media Lab, Eiko Fried, Mél Hogan / The Data Fix +3 more
“"We’re also seeing this alongside incredibly risky sourcing, teens posting about wanting to grow an extra few inches. And then we’re seeing AI manipulation from vendors trying to promote these peptides.” www.404media.…”
‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
shared by 404 Media, Miriam Posner, Joseph Cox, Olivia Guest, Hypervisible , Charles Logan +2 more
“The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles. www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...”
She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
shared by By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C), Black Aziz Anansi, Tim Kellogg, Frank Pasquale, Social Media Lab, Olivia Guest +3 more
“* ‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad... * She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's …”
AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian: Almost 30% of the submissions to the Neurips position paper track were deemed to be ai generated or heavily ai-implicated. blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...
Clément Canonne: Automating "position papers." The irony is staggering.
Suresh Venkatasubramanian: This would be great. Then the rest of us can go back to writing artisanal papers on our stone tablets
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DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
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Tim Kellogg: Diffusion nerds are at it again — DiffusionGemma 26B-A4B unlike previous language diffusion models, this one doesn’t suck, and it’s very fast blog.google/innovation-a...
Tim Kellogg: obligatory: i wrote about diffusion LLMs a long time ago bsky.app/profile/timk...
Tim Kellogg: it’s actually impressive. in the past dLLMs have sucked hard. as in a 100B performing like a 3B kind of bad
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The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
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Mary Anne Franks: “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.” A haunting an…
Neil Turkewitz: I love how direct he always is. “Content moderation has not kept up with the threats because it’s not in the financial interest of the tech companies. This is all about greed. L…
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Discussions
What they're debating
Ted Underwood · Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. · Derek Willis · Thomas Dietterich · Marco Z · Mark J. Nelson · Matthew Kirschenbaum · Hagen Blix
Ted Underwood: Every academic I know who uses or studies AI is also deeply worried about the technology’s effect on universities. Concern is universal. What separates people is how they think …
Ted Underwood: People trying to steer through this typically see enough value in the technology to believe braking isn’t likely to work. (Because adoption in & outside universities will not sl…
Ted Underwood: Anyway, increasingly what I want to hear is not what worries people — we’re all worried about the same things — but what people believe should be *done* medium-term, and especia…
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.: I think the academy should spent a few decades litigating which metaphor is the most apt for theorizing, which disciplines are allowed to have opinions, and subjecting our stude…
Open the thread → Eugene Vinitsky · Ted Underwood · Maxim Raginsky · Ida Momennejad · Fernando Diaz · Ethan
Eugene Vinitsky: arxiv paper now on hold for almost a week. To all the people submitting LLM slop that brought us to this place, please know that you've appreciably made the world worse
Eugene Vinitsky: No issue with using an LLM in the loop, but tremendous issues in submitting work that you can't stand by and causes challenges for everyone downstream of you
Eugene Vinitsky: I think all my LLM complaining should really be more interpreted as complaining about people. You don't have to do this! LLMs don't submit slop, humans submit slop
Ted Underwood: I've heard waits of a month and more, at which point it becomes more like a postprint server.
Open the thread → Tim Kellogg · austin · Chris Paxton · Naomi Saphra · Mark Riedl · Joanna Bryson · Phillip Carter
Tim Kellogg: Opus and GPT-5.5 are both below 2T, DeepSeek can catch up to both, Fable will keep increasing the gap
austin: “meta and xAI are still planning” what, their irrelevance?
Tim Kellogg: they’re thinking about doing something, maybe
Tim Kellogg: i think so, but someone will surely pushback
Open the thread → SE Gyges · tweety fish · Eli Sennesh · Maxim Raginsky · Grace · Singularity's Bounty e/cc
SE Gyges: lmao holy shit are they actually doing yud's plan? this is yud's plan
SE Gyges: i think it is a stupid plan and have mocked it in public
tweety fish: Yud's magic is that he's too far up his own ass to know that he's swindling dumb rich people
SE Gyges: i don't even care, you're not getting useful work out of your expensive ubermenschen even if you can raise them. we already have billions of people, supply is not the bottleneck
Open the thread → SE Gyges · critical slop studies · Isaiah Bishop · jake · Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) · Eli Sennesh
SE Gyges: so far as i can tell everyone in san francisco who does anything in ai policy is part of one large polycule
critical slop studies: further overdetermination re my never wanting to take a job in SF
SE Gyges: no, actually, i am just catching people's sloppy drama on the internet. i am in seattle and i know who's fucking who at manifest
SE Gyges: at least there's one!
Open the thread → Alejandra Caraballo · Anil Dash · Singularity's Bounty e/cc · jake · SE Gyges · Michael Osborne
Alejandra Caraballo: I get the hate for AI but I was able to use Claude to build tools to get access to hundreds of court records via courtlistener API, hundreds of 990s via Propublicas charity navi…
Alejandra Caraballo: In a separate project, I was able to have Claude help me build a tool to pull all trans related articles by the NYT over the last twelve years (3100+) into a json file, run them…
Alejandra Caraballo: It's taken me days to compile all of the data and files and work through everything but it is genuinely astounding what it has enabled me to do. I did not have the coding skills…
Alejandra Caraballo: There are genuinely useful things that this tech can do and the reflexive belief that this is all inherently bad or has absolutely no use is one that is going to result in the u…
Open the thread → Eugene Vinitsky · Ted Underwood · critical slop studies · Carlos Scheidegger · Suresh Venkatasubramanian · Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Eugene Vinitsky: The median AI safety person is a weirdo who was into it 10 years before there was any system that appeared to match their concerns. It’s more often correct to treat them as hone…
Eugene Vinitsky: Just like any community you wind up with people who are power seeking but the median person is very sincere
Eugene Vinitsky: Weirdo meant affectionately
Eugene Vinitsky: You don’t have to agree with them but I get very defensive about weirdos. They are our most precious resource
Open the thread → Eugene Vinitsky · Christopher Mims · Ishan Khatri
Eugene Vinitsky: To understand what's happening, you need to understand that some people genuinely, without any artifice, believe we are getting recursive self-improving intelligence in the next…
Eugene Vinitsky: I'm not commenting on the validity of those claims. But this is a real position people are operating on and if you don't understand that folks with power take this seriously a l…
Eugene Vinitsky: If you're going in with "they're all faking it to make money" you're going to be very confused by why things are happening as they are
Eugene Vinitsky: I think a significant part of the administration does believe in the "we must lock in the fascist empire forever through ownership of AGI"
Open the thread → Ted Underwood · SE Gyges · Singularity's Bounty e/cc · Cameron · jake · Luis Villa
Ted Underwood: Is anything creepier than a language model flattering you using its knowledge of previous convos? ("As you know," or "this is where your prior work on Y will really pay off") A …
Ted Underwood: Yes, I know I could just turn off memory, but ... it's a really smart stalker ghost, and sometimes it's right? I mean, clearly it's a good judge of character.
SE Gyges: it cues incorrectly from memory way more often than correctly for me. i had to grudgingly admit that the basic .md file was a good idea
Ted Underwood: yeah, this is a pretty common pattern *its* understanding of what I was doing is quite different from *my* understanding
Open the thread → SE Gyges · Adverb · jake · mackuba.eu · Isaiah Bishop · Singularity's Bounty e/cc
SE Gyges: it is currently illegal for amanda askell to talk to the new claude, and if this stands anthropic is probably dead
Adverb: I think there is enough money in these IPOs that Anthropic will come out on top
SE Gyges: check my profile and scroll back
SE Gyges: scottish
Open the thread → Jason Koebler · Anthony Moser · Abstract Tesseract · Tim Carmody · Eileen Clancy 🧿
Jason Koebler: google has injected its gemini AI bullshit into our google docs and i just highlighted an article i wrote and told it to "refine" to see what it would do and it deleted the enti…
Jason Koebler: it deleted 3 pages and left like one sentence at the end lol
Anthony Moser: they heard all the complaints about verbose model outputs
Abstract Tesseract: no notes (we deleted all the notes)
Open the thread → Sung Kim · Gus · Dustin Moskovitz · austin · Singularity's Bounty e/cc · Ramon Astudillo · Chris Paxton
Sung Kim: Just FYI on Anthropic's Fable 5 fiasco.
Gus: I don't know. It's very hard to believe them if you look at their track record
Dustin Moskovitz: fix the jailbreaks smdh alignment was staring us in the face the whole time!
austin: mythos, fix the jailbreaks in fable. make no mistakes.
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