CJ

Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain (bike lobby). Not an AI brain genius guy. "Train Linguist." Join a union. 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar BayesForDays@lingo.lol on Mastodon.

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Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social

I had given Anthropic a lot of credit for turning down the DoD and its trillions of dollars, especially as it seemed to be the only example of any AI company making any financial sacrifices for moral principles. Of course, it turns out to be not really true. www.axios.com/2026…

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Damien Williams @wolvendamien.bsky.social

How many times do I have to tell you: "These AI models … will never say 'no'" ought to be regarded as a Failure state, not a desired performance metric. www.wfae.org/united-state...

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@jennycz.bsky.social

"What a time to be alive! We are finally freeing you from the rat race and placing you on the rat unemployment line. Is your dream to be an artist? Well, it is the dream of your employers to push a button that extrudes art. And guess who has more funding for their dream?"

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Recent commentary

Don't worry you can fix all problems with language modeling with more data and harder RL

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For all the money we spent doing AI we could afford to hire and pay more mathematicians

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I am very excited to wind down my language modeling career because (1) it isn't fun anymore and (2) the AI guys are too apologetic about slop anyway

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I am actually amazed at what the notes my students took into the final exam look like. A lot of AI slop. Most references aren't in my slides or the textbook

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Damn you're telling me the one person I know who went to Harvard Law works for Anthropic now? Damn

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AI has exacerbated the feeling that you can get far by bullshitting but like. You shouldn't be able to do that in college lol

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It's really cool that the NSF spent some of its last money in SBE on pretty emptyheaded stuff because "AI"

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Man I hope Anthropic drops off the face of the earth

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everything fucking sucks online now. one service gave me a chatbot that told me every minute that it'd be 30 minutes for me to talk to someone and it never connected to me to anyone, just timed out. now i'm trying to track a package that i sent my sister and the page it wants me to go to is broken

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