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(sometimes-computational) linguist, AI/ML unenthusiast, Luddite, they/he I periodically auto-delete my old posts and likes https://linktr.ee/abstract_tesseract

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I only found this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136 Curious what the English dept would say about "transform[ing] each story into a template-based representation that preserves narrative elements while abstracting away surface wording" and the "taxonomy of narrative dimensions rooted …

[2604.03136] StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction arxiv.org
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  • StoryScope hit 93.2% macro-F1 separating human from AI fiction using only narrative structure features, retaining over 97% of the version that added style cues.
  • The study covered 61,608 stories of about 5,000 words each, drawn from 10,272 prompts written by one human and five different LLMs.
  • Model-specific tells surfaced: Claude showed flat event escalation, GPT over-indexed on dream sequences, and Gemini defaulted to external character description.
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Her mind! This from @karenhao.bsky.social should be one of those inspirational quotes that a crafter does in needlepoint. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social

Anthropic went from a distant #2 in the AI startup race to winning news cycles, sharing the stage with the pope, eclipsing OpenAI's valuation and barreling towards an historic IPO, all in a matter of months. How did Anthropic pull it off? By doubling down on its key export: AI…

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Olivia Guest @olivia.science

> systemic harms can arise when AI is uncritically embraced as a revolution for women’s health. [Concerns involve] (1) impoverished understandings of gender and sex, which are (2) fed uncritically into AI models surrounded by hype, leading to (3) harms rather than improvements…

Beyond the hype of AI as a panacea for women’s health - npj Women nature.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • A commentary in npj Women's Health argues that 'systemic harms can arise when AI is uncritically embraced as a revolution for women's health.'
  • The authors flag three linked concerns: impoverished understandings of gender and sex, uncritical AI integration amid promotion, and resulting health detriments.
  • The paper is written by researchers at Radboud, MIT, Edinburgh, Swarthmore, UC Berkeley and Lausanne, and funded by the Dutch Research Council.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcod…

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Iris van Rooij @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

"[If] an AI system can mimic human behavior and predict human performance on cognitive tasks, then human cognition must work more or less analogously to how the AI system works, right?" Wrong! Read full paper here 👇

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Just started (hate-) reading The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, and it's dedicated to the EFF so that's not an auspicious start

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I'm going to be documenting every time a "leader" told me we need to get on board with "AI", because my question for them is: "you've demonstrated catastrophically poor professional and ethical judgment. How do you plan to make amends, and why should we trust anything you say?"

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Currently imagining a paper entitled "Programming Is Different: false consciousness and 'AI' in software development"

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"AI"-enthusiast bsky right now is like "the orphan-crushing machine may crush a lot of orphans, but it also helped someone find a counterexample to a conjecture, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not"

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So many of my IRL conversations about "AI" seem to involve people hoping that nobody will say things like "I don't think that's true" and "can you show me an example of what you mean?" because it'd be awkward Joke's on them though, I have aphantasia and literally can't picture the emperor's clothes

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tfw someone responds to you with "AI" nonsense

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