Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control and stop slamming sma…
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News blog.codeberg.org
“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...
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Eugene Vinitsky
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The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging rl-blogging.leaflet.pub
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I'll now drop one of mine, not to be vain but because it's the place where I've most explicitly pulled several of these threads together into my own (and co-authors') synthesis. Chapter 4 is the lynchpin. Clearest place to start for “how does Michael think about research?” arx…
Fairness in Information Access Systems arxiv.org
For a much newer one, capturing a line of thinking that I've been living in a lot for the last few years, and working on a paper about — measurement and AI eval, by @hannawallach.bsky.social et al. proceedings.mlr.press/v267/wallach...
Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge proceedings.mlr.press
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What if you asked about algorithmic fairness and people wanted to talk about something else? @fujirobledo.bsky.social tells that story in "Co-Designing Organizational Justice Indicators for Algorithmic Systems" appearing in FAccT 2026. (preview: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12643) #recs…
Co-Designing Organizational Justice Indicators for Algorithmic Systems arxiv.org
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People complain about employers wanting to replace them with AI then fall into the bad habit of responding to questions with “Claude said…” or sharing AI slop documents. They fail to realize that they’re making the case that they should be replaced with AI. Your coworkers can …
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Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
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What in the Roko’s Holy Goose-Valuing Basilisk is this? www.reuters.com/business/med...
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I want to make this into a blog post (series) someday, but I'll start w/ a thread teaser… short list of papers foundational to my research thinking. First up is Green & Viljoen's Algorithmic Realism - we must study algorithms in practice and in situ, not just in theory. dl.acm…
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So what do AI evaluations do or should do? Wrote a brief reflection about prototypical questions evaluations often try to answer and why it is useful to have clarity about what exactly one is trying to learn about some phenomenon of interest. rigor-in-ai.leaflet.pub/3ms4ax4sojs2j
Back-to-basics: so what do evaluations do - (Un)rigorous AI rigor-in-ai.leaflet.pub
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