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Multiple readings Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together Building & implementation · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 5 attributable reactions
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New Policy & governance Resource 22h ago
inference cooperative AI governance

Inference Cooperative — AI, governed together

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 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?” evidence ↗
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Ronen Tamari Nathan Schneider B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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“Maybe relevant @ntnsndr.in in context of inference.coop (congrats on the launch!)”

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“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?”

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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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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Justin Hendrix, MilaNLP Lab
“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…” 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...”

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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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3 experts · 48 posts · 2d ago
Grace B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“I’ve used LLMs for finding edits to things I’ve written, and I think I should be willing to say so. Tbf. I’m pretty conservative about it because I feel that I am too easily swayed. I tend to be wa…” 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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