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Established Models & releases Research 3d ago
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LLMs distort written language paper

How LLMs Distort Our Written Language

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Eugene Vinitsky, Ben Williamson, Jed Brown
“Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161” evidence ↗
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“Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161”

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Eugene Vinitsky: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
Eugene Vinitsky: Sitting in Marwa's fantastic PhD defense, trying my best not to just retweet all her papers
Isaiah Bishop: Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
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Developing Compute & infrastructure Analysis 2d ago
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AI common good infrastructure essay

Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dan McQuillan
“New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/ze…” evidence ↗
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“New preprint from me: 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. The paper treats AI as diagnostic of deeper contradictions, and argues that convivial practice can reclaim vital systems from the collapse of the technopolitical regime. doi.org/10.5281/ze…”

Established Culture, work & education Development 4d ago
OpenAI Learning Lab education launch

OpenAI launches Learning Lab for AI education research | ETIH EdTech News — EdTech Innovation Hub

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“OpenAI's "Learning Lab is being positioned as an ongoing research ecosystem rather than a single research project." What this means? OpenAI is trying to make ChatGPT a global focus of educational research as well as a core pedagogic tool. www.edtechinnovati…” evidence ↗
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“OpenAI's "Learning Lab is being positioned as an ongoing research ecosystem rather than a single research project." What this means? OpenAI is trying to make ChatGPT a global focus of educational research as well as a core pedagogic tool. www.edtechinnovati…”

Established Models & releases Research 3d ago
LLM linguistic diversity shrinking paper

The Shrinking Landscape of Linguistic Diversity in the Age of Large Language Models

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“While core content is retained when LLMs polish and rewrite texts, LLMs also homogenize writing styles, reducing writing-complexity variance ... emphasizing conformity over individuality" arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266” evidence ↗
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“While core content is retained when LLMs polish and rewrite texts, LLMs also homogenize writing styles, reducing writing-complexity variance ... emphasizing conformity over individuality" arxiv.org/abs/2502.11266”

Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

pubsonline.informs.org

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“"The current state of AI tools, amplified by existing publish-or-perish incentives, appears to be pushing the system toward an equilibrium of more rather than better research" pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...” evidence ↗
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“"The current state of AI tools, amplified by existing publish-or-perish incentives, appears to be pushing the system toward an equilibrium of more rather than better research" pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...”

Established AI research Research 3d ago
PMC biomedical AI paper

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ben Williamson
“"Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is ... flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...” evidence ↗
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“"Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is ... flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...”

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2 experts · 3 posts · 3d ago
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“It's a good journal too......sighhh I'm on a committee at the cognitive science society advocating for field-wide guidelines on AI disclosure and use in research products (enforceable only for our …” evidence ↗
samuel mehr: I got a text from an academic who's sure the editorial rejection they received, from a v good journal that I also publish in and review for, is AI-written, or at least heavily AI-edited. I read the…
Ben Williamson: Awful. We have specific text in our invites to reviewers reminding them that it is unacceptable to feed unpublished manuscripts into commercial LLM platforms.
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