David Mimno reposted
@404media.co wrote about our new preprint on tell-tale signs of AI-generated stories! Cc @dmimno.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492 Article: www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
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David Mimno
Information science professor at Cornell, machine learning
He teaches information science at Cornell. http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu
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Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co
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Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories arxiv.org
Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories arxiv.org
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Applications open for AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu
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[2605.23787] Engagement-Optimized Care: When LLMs become Mental Health Infrastructure arxiv.org
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Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named 'Elias Thorne'? gizmodo.com
Inside baseball: AI-enabled enforcement tech takes time, testing | Cornell Chronicle news.cornell.edu
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The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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David Mimno reposted
If you liked Bears Will Be Boys, you might enjoy our new FAccT paper! We prompted LLMs to complete 24K stories about animal characters where gender is unstated. We found that.. bears are *still* boys. And female animal characters disappeared while "neutrality" increased. arxiv…
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- Across 23,800 AI-generated stories, feminine animal characters appeared in just 2.2% versus 40.6% masculine.
- Models avoided assigning any gender 19% of the time on average; gender-neutral 'it/its' pronouns appeared in 38.2% of stories.
- The authors argue AI neutrality can erase marginalized identities rather than protect them, challenging a common alignment assumption.
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This is the best thing I've read on baseball's new ABS system. Balls and strikes are made, not found. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.16237
David Mimno reposted
@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
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🌟 NEW PREPRINT 🌟 After six months of following people using chatbots for socioemotional health & 1 year of participatory engagements, we're proud to release a longitudinal qualitative study on how people use general-purpose LLMs and what it demands of AI governance: arxiv.org/…
Gizmodo picked up our work on LLMs' love for Elias the mystical lighthouse keeper: gizmodo.com/why-do-chatb...
if you're annoyed about VAR, here's a nice writeup of our work documenting why MLB took seven years to figure out how to implement the automated ball-strike system: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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I’m all for serious penalties for hallucinated citations. But there’s a reason one of the rules of my lab is “Don’t try to solve Library Science”.
Can anyone suggest even one single reason anyone would ever want to watch an AI generated video beyond gee-whiz novelty? Who wants this?
“Never trust an AI executive with a bunker” -Brent Hecht
I googled a quote I half remembered ("one bite from the sunny side of the peach"). No results, but I thought I'd try the AI mode. It said this was Diderot criticizing Rousseau. I asked for a source, and it pointed me to Scott's Waverley (the correct answer it seems). What happened to Diderot?
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