The Who's Who of AI

“Because big tech doesn't do customer service, we are being inundated with AI-generated emails begging us for help.”

“ChatGPT keeps telling people all over the world that 404 Media can help with their tech support problems, and our inboxes are full of clearly AI-generated complaints about getting locked out of Instagram accounts. Make it stop www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...”

“GPT-6.1 Terra surprise!!! yes, i know you thought terra was dead, but no! its back, and its slightly better than Sol-6.1 but much cheaper per task openai.com/index/introd...”

“Looks like OpenAI is using @vega-vis.bsky.social for the charts on openai.com/index/introd.... The hover interaction for legends is pretty neat.”

“It is interesting watching them try out all kinds of different stuff to try to stop everyone from getting mad. I swear, everyone getting really mad at a tech company really works. It’s one of the few things that does.”

“The exponential time hypothesis is apparently false: openai.com/index/buildi...”

““These re-interviews are consequential,” a leaked email seen by 404 Media reads.”

“New: Proton, the company behind ProtonMail, emailed staff to say it will be 're-interviewing' workers about how they use AI. The implication is, if you're not using AI, or won't learn, you may lose your job. “These re-interviews are consequential.” www.404m…”

“OpenAI has claimed a refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothetis (ETH). Russell Impagliazzo, Mohan Paturi and Ryan Williams (@rrwilliams.bsky.social) have been asked to organize a community-led effort to evaluate this claim. More here: docs.google.com/doc…”

“What comes next in advertising on AI platforms? It's very hard to know. Policymakers should be paying attention now so that we have access to monitor these systems and find out. www.brookings.edu/articles/und...”

“People complain about employers wanting to replace them with AI then fall into the bad habit of responding to questions with “Claude said…” or sharing AI slop documents. They fail to realize that they’re making the case that they should be replaced with AI.…”

“Please, and thank you. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...”

““As part of an ongoing project to explore the material underpinnings of the digital world, the Brown senior has created an interactive map linking technology companies and their intermediaries to data workers around the world.””

““My primary motivation is to visualize the idea of AI colonialism in an impactful and immediately accessible manner,” (Cunyan) Ma said...." "I’m hoping this might start to fill in a larger picture of what AI colonialism actually looks like.” #criticalAI #ai…”

“At EMNLP I'm the most excited about this work which mixes theory with actual practicality. Given N models, how do you efficiently find which ones are the top-3? Evaluating everything is VERY expensive. aclanthology.org/2026.finding...”

“#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation' by Paun et al. dives into corpus annotation, evaluating six models' predictiveness and accuracy. Essential for navigating annotators and item difficulties. aclanthology.org/Q18-1040”

““We have historically allowed the debate over technology to be defined by the worst thing a product might do, with remarkably little discussion of the insidious damage it does every day.””

“I think I know what I'll be reading this weekend 👀 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...”

“The issue isn't what's "Real," it's what's *valued*. And, sadly, these days only the profitable is valued. See, e.g. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... This problem is going to get worse because consumer use of LLMs delivers attachment, not just attention, t…”

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