We live in a sad world in which one cannot even trust their favorite poop analysis app to not sell their data to an AI company www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
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Mark Riedl
Professor of AI at Georgia Tech, storytelling and safety
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
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Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
Call For Creative AI 2026 neurips.cc
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wsj.com
Musk slams Altman trial verdict as a 'technicality,' vows to appeal cnbc.com
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google futurism.com
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ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References - ACL 2026 2026.aclweb.org
brianchristian.org
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Mark Riedl reposted
The call for the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track is out! In its fourth year, NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track invites research papers and artworks that explore emerging applications, methods, and critiques of artificial intelligence and machine learning in art, design, and creati…
Relative change in A grades given since the release of ChatGPT www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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- UC Berkeley found AI-exposed courses saw roughly 30% more A grades after ChatGPT launched in late 2022.
- Harvard now awards A grades in nearly 60% of undergraduate courses, more than double its 2006 rate.
- Employers are raising GPA hiring thresholds as compressed grade distributions reduce the signal value of transcripts.
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Musk loses court battle with OpenAI on the grounds that the statute of limitations had passed. The 🍿 was good while it lasted www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/m...
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- The jury ruled Musk's claims were time-barred, ending the case without any ruling on OpenAI's alleged mission betrayal.
- The $134 billion disgorgement demand and Altman removal request were dismissed without ever reaching a merits verdict.
- OpenAI's defense successfully argued Musk had actionable notice of his claims years before he filed suit.
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Mark Riedl reposted
NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...
The ACL conference has put out a statement that papers with hallucinated references will be desk-rejected 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/
I had been doing work at the time teaching RL agents about social norms. Part of what would now be called Pluralistic Alignment. On the same trip I met Brian Christian, who went on to write the book, The Alignment Problem, citing some of my work brianchristian.org/the-alignmen...
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ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)
The Vatican has been staying abreast on developments in AI for a long time. I met a priest in 2017 whose job it was to be informed about AI developments. They were very interested in the topic of "alignment" and it doesn't surprise me to it appear in the Pope's encyclical.
I've discovered a new thing I hate: AI-generated review rebuttals.