Joshua Grochow

Research: TheoryCompSci, pure math, complex systems Other: climate; covid; equity, inclusion, & accessibility Assoc. Prof. @ CU Boulder Comp. Sci. & Math Views my own @joshuagrochow@mathstodon.xyz (& prev twitter) https://home.cs.colorado.edu/~jgrochow

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Joshua Grochow reposted
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social

Almost 30% of the submissions to the Neurips position paper track were deemed to be ai generated or heavily ai-implicated. blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...

AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
AI Weekly's analysis
  • NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4%) via Pangram; 123 more must prove human authorship by June 15, 2026.
  • Default Pangram window sizes flagged 42.7% of submissions; refined 100-word windows reduced that rate to 12.7%.
  • Comparison venues FAccT 2025 and NeurIPS E&D 2026 showed 0% and 2.1% maximum AI scores respectively.
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Joshua Grochow reposted
@newsguild.org

BREAKING: POLITICO is shutting down AI "tools" at center of landmark arbitration. wbng.org/2026/05/22/p... #NewsNotSlop

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild wbng.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Politico's union contract required 60-day advance notice before AI deployment, a clause that became the enforceable legal lever.
  • Both shut-down tools produced documented factual errors in published, branded Politico content.
  • NewsGuild-CWA calls this the first successful major labor arbitration over AI deployment in a U.S. newsroom.
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Joshua Grochow reposted
@caulfieldtim.bsky.social

⚠️ Another problem with AI: makes us worse at spotting bunk! The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news news.mit.edu/2026/consequ... "...participants who relied on AI systems to verify facts actually got worse at detecting misinformation on their own when their chatbo…

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Joshua Grochow reposted
@schnizzl.bsky.social

Can LLMs Emulate Human Belief Dynamics? 🧪 The answer is a clear no. [The findings] raise a sharp warning against deploying LLMs as human proxies in social simulations. arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18781 #SyntheticData #EsWirdImmerAbsurder

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Recent commentary

Large language model the size of a small language model

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