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New Culture, work & education Signal 22h ago

AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

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“Thanks for making it to the end of the thread! If you want to read more, here’s the full article where I give more detailed data on AI & arts job loss While you’re there, consider subscribing to my newsletter where I write all about econ! www.apricitas.io/p…”

Developing Models & releases Research 1d ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

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Multiple readings

Policy & governance

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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...”

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“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…”

Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“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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Developing Safety & security Analysis 1d ago
Hugging Face breach human decisions essay

Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

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“Wall Street Journal’s editorial page has a (complimentary) op-ed concerning my recent piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogu...”

Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago
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EA Safety

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“if you want a more philosophical treatment of rationalism/effective altruism's ai movement this is good i believe recent events have caused many of the people we normally call "rationalist adjacent" that they have to say something contraptions.venkateshrao.…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
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essay how to talk AI

How to talk about

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“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…”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

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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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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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mitpress.mit.edu

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Developing Agents & robotics Analysis 1d ago
robotaxis San Diego equity opinion

Opinion: Who will robotaxis actually serve in San Diego?

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“Robotaxis as "so so tech" "[It] is just good enough to replace human workers but not good enough to significantly improve quality of life or create broad social benefits...[it moves] power away from local public institutions toward private corporations" www…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
Zero Token Architecture conference talk

ZTA: Zero Token Architecture · WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America

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“I'll be speaking at the @wearedevelopers.bsky.social event in San Jose this week. I'm doubling down on my belief that people shouldn't be burning AI tokens when a more efficient option is available. www.wearedevelopers.com/world-congre...”

Established Culture, work & education Analysis 3d ago
Anti-AI art manifesto

anti-ai art manifesto

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“one of my fave pieces on this topic: multimodal.art/manifesto/”

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SE Gyges: the frustrating part of bad ai takes is that nobody who has them wants to stand by them or admit their misses later. it is just the rocket goalposts game.
SE Gyges: see i don't remember you ever having especially bad takes, the sort of person who has really bad takes is the sort of person who does not learn from or even admit their mistakes
Eli Sennesh: the frustrating part of bad ai takes is that nobody who has them wants to stand by them or admit their misses later. it is just the rocket goalposts game.
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Established AI research Resource 4d ago
deep learning AI educational videos

B’s AI video recommendations

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“CodeEmporium’s breakdown of transformers uses some more scary looking diagrams and words (“vector”), but I think the actual explanations are pretty accessible, if you can just encourage people to gloss over the unfamiliar terminology youtu.be/TQQlZhbC5ps?...”

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Grace Lindsay: Anyone know of any good short videos or visualizations that cover how modern AI is built and trained in a way that is suitable for a college gen ed class? It can lean a bit technical. The stuff I'v…
Grace Lindsay: Ooo that paper ChatGPT demo is good!
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them): I have a playlist of some of my favorite videos for exploring concepts in machine learning/algorithms/AI! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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3 experts · 48 posts · 21h ago
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 · 6 posts · 3d ago
Naomi Saphra: A pattern that I've been surprised by is people writing followup emails for their slop emails. Like, people are getting really insistent that I respond in earnest to emails they did not write.
The Data Therapist in the Blue Sky : s/people writing/AI agents generating/ s/people are getting really insistent/AI agents emailmaxxing/
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