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New AI field signal Analysis 6h ago
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essay how to talk AI

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Emily M. Bender Timnit Gebru Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Frank Pasquale Charles Logan Jeffrey Vagle +3

“A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if…”

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

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
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 Models & releases Analysis 15d ago
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Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

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404 Media Jason Koebler Alex Hern Charles Logan Colin

“AI companies see words as interchangeable and have zero clue how to judge the “quality” of writing. www.404media.co/anthropics-t...”

“Wrote about text watermarking, a concept only slightly more offensive than AI “writing” by which AI companies show yet again that they don’t understand or care about writing at all: www.404media.co/anthropics-t...”

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Colin: This is not quite right. The interchangeability of words or lack thereof is already expressed by the model, independently of watermarking. The model always generates text by randomly sampling from …
Colin: The extent to which "grey" and "overcast" are interchangeable is basically P(grey|context) / P(overcast|context) (note that this is a function of the context!). If this is close to 1 then the model…
Colin: That is, if two tokens have ~equal probabilities given the context, then the model effectively flips a coin between them. But the context is very important. P("grey" | "The color half way between w…
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
Mystery AI Hype Theater podcast

Working 9 to Hype, 2026.08.10 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

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Emily M. Bender Alex Hanna The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Charles Logan

“Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Ep 84, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social and I explore the gulf between what the tech companies say the impact of "AI" on labor is and what they are actually doing with their mathy maths: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

“Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...”

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Alex Hanna: “AI assisted” autism screening?? 🤦🏽 From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Working 9 to Hype”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
Alex Hanna: Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
Emily M. Bender: “AI assisted” autism screening?? 🤦🏽 From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Working 9 to Hype”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
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Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago
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Student writing essays ai

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Hypervisible Luke Stark Christopher Mims Anna Mills Frank Pasquale Ben Williamson Charles Logan Jason Moore +3
2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Hypervisible : “Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes deca…
Hypervisible : The extent to which these companies (and the people who represent them) are actively hostile to students cannot be overstated. “Students need to write well enough to have a sense of which A.I. text…
Hypervisible : This statement is so egregiously bad I wish the journalist included the original quote instead of paraphrasing.
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Compute & infrastructure Signal 3d ago
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Ai infrastructures and sustainability

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Dan McQuillan Charles Logan

“Video of all presentations & Q+A spui25.nl/programma/ai... From my talk: ""The chapter counterposes Total Mobilisation and decomputing to make the claim that we either incubate a technofascist order or we shift very idea of 'order' itself..."”

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Dan McQuillan: Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van…
Charles Logan: Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van…
Abstract Tesseract: Oh cool I will DEFINITELY be reading this
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2 experts · 6 posts · 11d ago
Charles Logan Jane Rosenzweig
Charles Logan: These are the use cases OpenAI is touting in its announcement today that it’s partnering with 55 new schools systems. How else might educators accomplish these goals? Talk with colleagues about rev…
Charles Logan: I suppose they will need to learn trust the bullshit machine
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