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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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arxiv.org

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“Next time someone tries to tell you an LLM is conscious, send them this article by a principal scientist at Microsoft: If LLMS Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514”

“Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social”

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ae: Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
ae: this is funny "Lemma 1 (NAND Gates in AoE II). It is possible to build and operate a NAND gate in the scenario editor by using one player, two units acting as the {0, 1} bits, and no other components"
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Also, the Town Square can speak Chinese.
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Data Society AI civics coordinator job posting

Job Application for Project Coordinator, AI Civics at Data & Society Research Institute

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“We’re also searching for a seasoned project coordinator to give critical operational coordination and support to the AI Civics program. Learn more and apply by July 29! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...”

Developing Agents & robotics Development 1d ago
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OpenAI models autonomously hack startup

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

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“We spent decades worrying about sentient AI, but it turns out that was a red herring and we really should have worried about autonomous AI.* This is gonna get real interesting real quick.”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 7d ago
AI copyright history market floods essay

What History Can Teach Us About Copyright, AI, and ‘Market Floods’

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“Another great question. I don't worry about market deluges, mostly because there's a long history of them not causing the kind of problems people worry about: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what... If anything, all the slop will make artists & audiences inves…”

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Aram Sinnreich: Somewhat unpopular position, especially for a songwriter and recording artist: I don't have any problem with scraping or training AI, or even style transfers. Unless a song is substantially reprodu…
Jed Brown: Do you believe process matters or only the similarity of the final artifact? I ask because substantial similarity is circumstantial evidence of process. If the process is clearly infringing but the…
Aram Sinnreich: Good question. That's only half of the function of the substantial similarity test. It's also used in the context of the de minimis and fair use doctrines, to speak to questions of harms and substi…
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