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Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, NLP & language.
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Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
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The ChatGPT browser is already dead theverge.com
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Special issue on ethics in NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics Journal | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS lrb.co.uk
Cate Blanchett Launches 'Human Consent Registry' to Help Protect Your Likeness From AI Industry Scraping gizmodo.com
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YNLG 2026 - Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation ynlg-workshop.github.io
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Joint Call for Workshops Proposals 2027 2027.eacl.org
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Articles & links
Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/porta…
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"‘UK politicians are a lot more easily impressed than American politicians. It costs a lot less to influence them,’ a former Global Counsel employee said" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“…it should be noted that there does not appear to be any sort of enforcement method in place for making AI firms actually comply with this at this time, and you are turning over a lot of personal data to a third-party, so uploader beware.”
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- RSL Media, co-founded by Blanchett and three others, launched a free Human Consent Registry for US and EU residents.
- Users choose from three consent levels covering name, image, voice, and movement, then receive a Human Consent ID AI systems can check.
- The registry has no enforcement mechanism; compliance by AI companies, data vendors, and representative organizations is entirely voluntary.
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NLP reviews suck! But why is not clear– @aclrollingreview.bsky.social provides *a lot* of guidance for how to review, but in that, first principles get lost. So @adamlopez.bsky.social and I have written down some of our thoughts on first principles.
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Are you a new researcher in #NLG? An MSc or PhD student or a postdoc new to natural language generation? Do you want to find advice and community? Check out the #YNLG workshop happening at #INLG2026! (One week left to submit) ynlg-workshop.github.io
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At a later stage, you will also be able to submit your paper to workshops which are to be announced but the tentative submission deadline is 15 December, see 2027.eacl.org/calls/worksh.... Note, if you want to propose a workshop or tutorial yourself, the deadline is 4 Sep!
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📩 New edition of the #AIBulletin out now! This month: 🔹 EU Parliament and Council reach a deal on the AI Omnibus, including a ban on “nudifying” #AI 🔹 Commission drafts AI Act implementation guidelines 🔹 Pope Leo XIV addresses AI in his first encyclical letter 👇 Read more & si…
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