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I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
CrankGPT. “Just a hand crank, a little computer, and a small stack of speech and language models running locally. Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a thousand years.” [squeezlabs.github.io]
Damn this would have been a perfect quote for the newsletter I *just* sent out
1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below: Website: www.govscape.net ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010
Excellent new research from @cdt.org @mluria.bsky.social analyzes the dark patterns applicable to AI chatbots, including general-purpose systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) and “companion” platforms (Replika, Character.AI): cdt.org/insights/dar...
This is the summer of micro-papers: small ideas, shared freely, archived for posterity. I've had 2 separate emails and multiple new citations based on my micro-paper I wrote for micro-papers back in 2023.
👀 discuss! a plus one for accountability & access, but potentially bad if it becomes part of blind populist financially incentivized race over the cliff. apnews.com/article/bern...
Super interesting! www.verysane.ai/p/against-th...
yes, and — even worse: today AI systems today enforce *existing austerity* of our public benefits systems and social safety net, helping facilitate determinations of who is worthy and not of care, food, unemployment, etc. only made worse by OBBBA's Medicaid cuts + work require…
I’ve used the “AI reads like people do” case to justify continued accessibility work (link to Forbes on that) But there’s something really upsetting about having to do that when ultimately we’ve always had people who need accessibility. All people need accessibility www.forbes…
Rising DRAM prices are driving "forced premiumization" in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out (David Oks) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
YES! This is something the #PublicAI movement is pushing for! Public AI models like #Apertus - apertvs.ai ("fully open foundation model") and #ALIA - alia.gob.es/eng ("public infrastructure, open and multilingual") are signs of hope. Inference remains a challenge, though, henc…
AI fairness folks, help me out? I know that back circa... 2018 or so, there were some handy interactives that had demonstrations of how different definitions of fairness could lead to different model behavior. I'm struggling to track down the links now. Can you point me?
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