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Emily Hunt
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Postdoc @univie.ac.at working on star clusters & machine learning
Passionate about a better future for science communication via @astrosky.eco
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Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection arxiv.org
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem wired.com
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theclimatebrink.com
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Anthropic has its eyes on Australia and a large slice of its electricity output abc.net.au
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As gas plants rise to power AI, renewable energy allies are fighting for cleaner alternatives apnews.com
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About a quarter of U.S. adults use chatbots daily pewresearch.org
Anthropic and SpaceX announce major partnership as AI arms race continues nbcnews.com
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Don’t trust LLMs with your literature searches. Horrible gender biases as found in this paper (from later in the thread below) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 🧪🔭
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Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software. www.wired.com/story/huggin...
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anthropic is so good and oh so ethical … just ignore how it keeps working with the military and intelligence services
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Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink …
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“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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"As a result, the AI boom has set in motion the biggest-ever construction boom of natural gas-fired power plants, not to mention moves by utilities, power plant owners and the federal government to keep aging coal-fired power plants operating past their previously scheduled re…
Surely this example just illustrates my point, though? Petrol, as a technology, still exists today; just it was regulated to not be allowed to contain lead. *Half* of US adults are using chatbots per week, and ~25% daily. Hence, I think calling for AI use to stop altogether is…
I find it particularly shocking to see so many people so in favour of AI as a research tool - especially Claude code - even while knowing that Anthropic are sending money towards SpaceX, a company that has made it a mission to destroy the night sky for ground-based astronomy. …
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I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term
hot take: I would rather read your imperfect English in your own voice than perfect LLM English that makes all writing narratively the same
I honestly hate watching talks made with AI. I hate it when speakers brag about how much time it saved them. If you have 80 people in your audience and they all watch you for 30 minutes, that's 40 hours of person-time. And you're telling us you're *proud* of how little you prepared? 🤷♀️
Testing it out of curiosity, I feel like Google's new AI search mode sides with whichever papers make the strongest claims (regardless of whether or not they're true.) This has major, shit implications for information retrieval - the most hyped claims are rewarded with AI search rating you higher
Prices on new servers at Hetzner have increased 3×, which is pretty insane. I kinda get it because they're a budget provider that already had a tight margin - but jeez, I am really done with how much AI has inflated hardware and compute costs
Somehow, the pro-AI crowd is convinced that almost everyone is already using AI and loves it, and the anti-AI crowd is convinced that almost everyone is rejecting AI and hates it Both scenarios can't be true. It's unpopular, dangerous technology, but I think we're already stuck with it
I sometimes wonder if it's pointless to keep holding out on AI coding, but my god I just cannot bring myself to send money to US tech companies right now
I think the Costa Coffee I'm sat in is playing AI-generated music 🫠 I guess that way they don't have to pay royalties
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