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Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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essay how to talk AI

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Charles Logan
“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:” evidence ↗
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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“I’m working with a librarian to develop a module for undergraduates about conducting research, and I’m once again grateful for this resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social:”

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Henry Farrell
“Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s41...” evidence ↗
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Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab +2
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“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

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“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

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“Builds on stodgier academic work here - www.science.org/stoken/autho... - this, by Roberts et al, is also very interesting on language and LLMs albeit much more political www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New Policy & governance Resource 23h ago
inference cooperative AI governance

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ronen Tamari
“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)” evidence ↗
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Ronen Tamari Nathan Schneider B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Nathan Schneider: We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): We are now about half way to the threshold at Inference.coop where I'll have to give up my benevolent dictatorship. Want to join the ethical-ish AI train and help unseat me from power?
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): @roblach.bsky.social shall we?? #NoKings 😜
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3 experts · 48 posts · 2d ago
Grace B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“What do we do about this? Substack lets you check for AI with pangram, but it doesn’t show a label upfront. I assume if it started doing that authors would optimize against it. Maybe build it into …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Grace: AI writing, unfortunately
Grace: What do we do about this? Substack lets you check for AI with pangram, but it doesn’t show a label upfront. I assume if it started doing that authors would optimize against it. Maybe build it into …
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6 experts · 13 posts · 4d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Marc Lanctot critical slop studies ae B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“Like maybe build a functional transit system first that people actually want to pay for” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist
Eugene Vinitsky: maybe we try baby steps first
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3 experts · 6 posts · 15d ago
Prof. Dr Beth Singler Jack Stilgoe B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“We can think about companies going slower would actually mean. It would not mean 'we need to stop ourselves being so clever'. It would mean 'we need to build infrastructures that make everyone safe…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Policy & governance · 2
Jack Stilgoe: For AI governance, 'pacing', 'pausing' and 'slowing down' are the wrong metaphors. Only used by people who want this to be seen as a race. This is about steering, not braking. But...
Jack Stilgoe: We can think about companies going slower would actually mean. It would not mean 'we need to stop ourselves being so clever'. It would mean 'we need to build infrastructures that make everyone safe…
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