You can read the Anthropic blog post on RSI. It’s… fine. Just don’t let one’s imagination get ahead of things www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
Who's Who of AI
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
What they're sharing
When AI builds itself anthropic.com
Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why 404media.co
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 404media.co
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Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius 404media.co
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case 404media.co
Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security whitehouse.gov
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Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
Call For Creative AI 2026 neurips.cc
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Anthropic Halts Access to Top AI Models After U.S. Ban on Foreign Use wsj.com
Articles & links
AI generated stories, aka the Elias Thorne literary universe www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
Meta silently put face recognition on their smart-glasses, then silently took it off again after @wired.com reported on it www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Don't overlook the importance of the "retrieval" part of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Cornell Tech researchers find it is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate "deep research" AI www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
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internal company documents show that Microsoft plans on getting users "addicted" to AI agents. Not language Microsoft employees we talked to are thrilled about or believe in. www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Leaked logs quantify scraping per platform: 2M+ YouTube clips, 62,117 Pond5 hours, 12,287 Deezer hours, 17,615 Genius hours, and roughly 1M podcast hours.
- Suno publicly called the breach 'limited' and 'quickly contained' while withholding notification from customers whose emails, phone numbers, and Stripe records were exposed.
- TechCrunch flags a distinct DMCA angle: deliberately circumventing YouTube's anti-scraping protections is a separate violation from copyright infringement in the underlying suits.
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Lawyers on both sides of this case either admitted to directly using AI or admitted to rubber stamping legal briefs that had been prepared with AI without reviewing them. Some of the lawyers involved were unaware that cases could be hallucinated. www.404media.co/judge-learns...
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Breaking: President Trump has signed his AI security executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... It's virtually the same as the draft he scrapped earlier, except the voluntary government review of AI models would be up to 30 days before release, not up to 90.
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...
NeurIPS statement on the use of AI in the position paper track blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- 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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Mark Riedl reposted
Submissions for the NeurIPS 2026 Creative AI Track are now open! Don’t forget to submit your research papers/artworks by August 3, 2026 (AoE). We invite submissions exploring emerging applications, methods, and critical perspectives on AI and machine learning in art, design, a…
Fable was been jailbroken. Access to Fable has been halted. But the reason for the halt is wild… 1/ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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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)
I'm going to use this in a lecture on chain-of-thought for my NLP class
AI being weird is back. (I love that the Official Bob Dylan website is provided as a source for this answer. I’m pretty sure the website does not address this particular question)
The big AI tech companies are all jumping on the “recursive self-improvement” hype train. It’s only a matter of time before we are all talking about the singularity and hard-takeoff again, though so far I haven’t seen anyone come out and directly say it yet as part of this hype cycle
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.
Is there significant daylight between Mythos and GPT 5.5? Feels like the US government regulation is ad-hoc, spurious, and maliciously targeted. If feels like a rubicon has been crossed. Next few weeks should be… interesting
April: Claude Mythos was too dangerous for release. 40 organizations got early access to fix their software security issues. June: Claude Mythos released as Claude Fable. Anthropic says they have installed safeguards against using it for hacking.
I just asked Gemini a question through the Google website in AI mode and it did its usual search and then gave me the search results as a list of websites I should look at on my own. Is this the future of web search?
Very important decisions were made and now the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center has new t-shirts for members
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