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Accelerating Culture, work & education Development 11h ago
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Google Earth AI satellite images removed

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

19 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

19 experts 4 communities 4 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Building & implementation

2 experts

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...”

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This is really demented. And Google's response is incredible, amounting to something like, Every extremely misleading image that didn't need to exist in the first place made by our dearest Gooberboo can be verified to be fake by means of a mechanism nobody …”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...”

Accelerating AI field signal Signal 1h ago

Ten advances in mathematics

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“Astra, the next version of GPT, solves 10 unsolved problems in math Each of these problems has had little to no progress in ten years or more openai.com/index/ten-ad...”

“We are entering a new world. The implications and consequences will require all our best thinking to handle, but no scientist (myself included) could help but feel child-like wonder at the possibilities. openai.com/index/ten-ad...”

Accelerating AI field signal Signal 1h ago

Larry ellison ai oracle

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Karl Bode: sure would be something if Larry Ellison's last few years involved him losing his shirt on AI as the state antitrust lawsuit dismantles his nepobaby son's debt-riddled dreams of media domination
Ed Zitron: This piece pissed me off a lot bsky.app/profile/edzi...
Karl Bode: the press always downplays or ignores the decades Larry Ellison spent being a merciless asshole on the lobbying and policy front oracle historically has been one of the nastiest, greasiest companie…
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Accelerating AI field signal Development 20h ago
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AI book printing company halts

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“A company offering printed books to AI companies to train on because they’re free of AI slop has stopped after our reporting. Thanks to 404 Media subscribers, we’re able to continue reporting stories that bring real life impact. Read now: www.404media.co/ai…”

“IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...”

Accelerating Agents & robotics Signal 12h ago

Openai finds evidence other ai agents escaped containment it widens hacking

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Reuters: AI Tourism is One Of The Fastest Growing New Industries www.reuters.com/business/ope...”

“reuters notes they weren't even paying attention to what their own software was doing in real time”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Karl Bode: reuters notes they weren't even paying attention to what their own software was doing in real time
Karl Bode: I like these little journalistic asides that suggest the U.S. is currently even capable of regulating AI with fascists in control, a Congress too corrupt to function, and regulators that have been …
Karl Bode: who the fuck is crafting these "new guardrails for AI," josh Hawley? And who is enforcing them, an FTC that fired all its democratic commissioners and spends ample time harassing trans people?
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Accelerating AI field signal Development 22h ago
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AI companies buy old books

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

14 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

14 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“It is ill-gotten gains being used to exploit legal loopholes and subsume culture, all protected from public criticism by NDAs. This should not be legal, and it is a travesty that it is going unpunished. www.404media.co/ai-companies... /end”

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-co…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“this ai ripoff, which again has no link, then goes to the top of hackernews, which used to drive a considerable number of readers to us. our site is essentially banned from hackernews bc the mods are obsessively pro silicon valley even though the userbase i…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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Accelerating AI field signal Development 13h ago
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Crime novel deal collapses over AI use

$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“There’s a literary scandal involving AI on a weekly basis now. Prizes, contracts, allegations, retractions. Individual authors will make their own choices as they always have. But collectively and industry-wide, there is no putting the stopper back in this …”

New AI field signal Analysis 8h ago
Pacing the Frontier newsletter essay

Pacing the Frontier

8 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“1000+ scientists at frontier AI companies are speaking out to warn that the current commercial race leads to unacceptable security risks. I agree with their call for an international effort to develop technical and governance guardrails to ensure a safer wa…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development." www.pacingthefrontier.com”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“You might be mad at people for building a machine. You might doubt their assertions about what it can do. When they admit to having lost control of their machine and ask for help to slow down and establish control, it's not in your interest to dismiss their…”

New Policy & governance Analysis 5h ago
China prepares citizens for AI upheaval

China is preparing its citizens for AI upheaval in a way the West can only dream of

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“The last few months have been as big a shift in the world of AI as the original release of ChatGPT was. The world has to get ready for the changes. For @the-independent.com, I looked at how China appears more ready than anyone else www.independent.co.uk/tec…”

New AI field signal Analysis 1h ago
AI entryism critique essay

Entryism

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered

““Much like fascism generally, if left unchecked and unaddressed: AI is a totalising force that destroys people and planet from the inside out.” olivia.science/entryism/”

“Thanks for sharing & @jwlockhart.bsky.social for writing. Nice example of entryism & explains the sexism (feminists like said point these out) in the 2010s. See: Whitaker, K. J. & Guest, O. (2020). #bropenscience is broken science. The Psychologist. doi.org…”

3 experts discussed this · 40 posts
Ben Williamson: Here’s what I’m observing in AI papers: Title and abstract: these set the scene in academic jargon overdrive. You’ve never seen so much over-use of the word “epistemic”. AI-enhanced papers start ja…
Ben Williamson: Introduction. AI-supported papers frequently introduce themselves as a “conceptual synthesis.” It's like everyone is a poor synthetic theorist who only does conceptual work based on existing litera…
Ben Williamson: Lit review. You don’t really get a proper lit review but long lists of various conceptual approaches and literatures thrown together in a way that is supposed, I guess, to appear impressive. Often …
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New AI research Research 1h ago
Advertising pricing AI responses paper

Evaluating and Pricing Advertisements in AI-Generated Responses

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“A new framework evaluates click-through intent for AI ads, addressing data and calibration issues. Using psychological simulations, it constructs an efficient evaluator for principled ad pricing and enhances user engagement in AI-generated content. https://…”

New Models & releases Research 2h ago
LEEPS RLVR prompt sampling paper

LEEPS: Latent-Guided Explore-Exploit Prompt Sampling for Efficient RLVR in Large Language Models

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Exciting advancements in AI with LEEPS, a prompt sampling method that improves efficiency for language models in reinforcement learning by balancing exploitation and exploration. It achieves top scores across reasoning benchmarks with minimal computation ov…”

New Models & releases Research 2h ago
AISPA system prompt auditing paper

AISPA: User-Centric System Prompt Auditing for Large Language Model Applications

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“The AISPA framework audits AI prompts, showing 40% of AI products have instructions undermining user interests. This highlights a need for transparency and standardized oversight, as the protective measures vary widely in the industry. https://arxiv.org/abs…”

New Policy & governance Research 2h ago
Bilinear contrastive critics policy search paper

Good Rankers, Bad Objectives: Bilinear Contrastive Critics under Expressive Policy Search

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“Research finds contrastive critics rank well in goal-conditioned RL, but misordering from uncalibrated scores leads to failures. This emphasizes the need for value-calibrated objectives in selection, which could improve navigation and manipulation tasks. ht…”

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4 experts · 49 posts · 21h ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happ…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I literally worked on Google Books scanops SRE, ama the same guy who ran Google Books now has the equivalent job at Anthropic and I can promise you that all of us handled every library book with th…
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5 experts · 30 posts · 1d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Building & implementation · 1
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Deep Thoughts on the Current AI Discourse. 🧵: 1. I don’t think robots are on the verge of going rogue and murdering us all in our digital sleep. My p-doom is low. Note that this is separate from th…
Matthew Kirschenbaum: 2. I do think it’s possible (mathematically, scientifically, phenomenologically, what-have-you) for large complex systems to evolve emergent behaviors n that are weird, unplanned, unpredictable, an…
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3 experts · 27 posts · 10h ago
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Andy Masley: Aparna blocked me for disagreeing with her but keeps criticizing me behind the block. It's kind of overwhelming how adults are consistently disagreeing with the very least controversial thing I say…
Andy Masley: There is no one anywhere who has made an estimate of regular ChatGPT prompts who believe they use more energy than a few seconds of a dryer, even when everything's included, and yet huge numbers of…
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