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Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions Multiple readings The AI Resist List Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo, René Walter
“"...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...” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...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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2 experts

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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...”

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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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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join” evidence ↗
15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna Timnit Gebru Mar Hicks Olivia Guest Karen Hao Rachel Coldicutt Sasha Costanza-Chock +7
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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“We are so excited about this resource created with @weandai.bsky.social and the Refugee Law Lab. Check it out and submit a resource you're excited about via airesistlist.org#join”

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“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

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3 experts · 48 posts · 2d ago
Grace B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“Earlier versions of suno I generated about 10 versions to get a really good one. Since v 5 I get a banger in the first couple Now, the older versions had an aspect I really miss, but as a package v…” 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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“Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist” 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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“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...” 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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2 experts · 4 posts · 15d ago
Willie Agnew B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“I think this is true in many ways re: high level policy convos, but I think the energetic public conversations about data centers and automation of employment are actually wins that the responsible…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Willie Agnew: I feel like the AI ethics community has been sidelined to industry workers and leaders in this latest round of fears about over AI, which makes it harder to imagine critical and independent oversig…
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): I think this is true in many ways re: high level policy convos, but I think the energetic public conversations about data centers and automation of employment are actually wins that the responsible…
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