In the @inquirer.com, @geurkink.bsky.social clearly lays out the unambiguous reality that the Trump administration is engaging in a censorship campaign against researchers of technology companies and the information ecosystem. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Alex Engler
Towards a healthier information ecosystem and a stronger democracy.
Executive Director @penn-mediated.bsky.social @upenn.edu
Alum: DemTech at NSC; AI Policy at OSTP; Brookings; Urban Institute; Taught at UChicago & Georgetown
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The U.S. is targeting the researchers who help us understand the effects of social media | Opinion inquirer.com
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Generally agree! In your thinking, does the "how" that compute is used matter for it to be a reasoning model? For instance, this paper makes claims about what methods count as reasoning (tho I'm not sure I buy this) arxiv.org/pdf/2501.11223
I just learned about ORES at a conference on Friday and think it's fantastic. I'm reading what you sent over + also just found this preprint (Bye Bye Perspective API) arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25580
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Writing about automated content moderation - it's amazing how many papers were focused on toxicity, with the comparison point being the Perspective API The sunsetting of the API means a loss for reproducibility And, this will probably be the case for many papers based on commercial LLMs
I just finished the first real draft (ready for reviewers) of a paper since I published on AI in housing valuations in October 2023 (the day I joined Biden admin) Was a real battle to get back to research/writing but it feels good now
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