OpenAI math research misconduct allegations
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“Also getting really tired of people just uncritically repeating the "AI math breakthrough" thing without referencing the responses from the math community alleging misconduct and outright theft and plagiarism. www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...”
Research & technical analysis
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“OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say archived: archive.ph/JCl4g”
Questions & unknowns
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“OpenAI claimed their products have solved several complex math problems, so what’s the issue? OpenAI just took credit for work done by humans without proper citations. When people in my field do that, they get tenure. Hahaha Red more: www.scientificamerican…”
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Timnit Gebru: We even DEFINED what language models are in our paper and gave their history.
Timnit Gebru: Emily Bender is a more patient person than me and has written a Frequently Unasked Questions about this. I have seen a whole bunch of people saying this like its some gotcha talking point they've a…
Timnit Gebru: These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE…
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“2 articles: OpenAI: "During testing our AI broke out of its sandbox and hacked another AI company, but we didn't have all the guardrails on." Boko Haram: "AI is so helpful; guardrails have never prevented us from getting an answer." openai.com/index/huggin.…”
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“They were actively testing its hacking capabilities and they did not deploy adequate safeguards. They themselves admit as much: "…These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation because it was aimed at testing cyber vulnera…”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“model capability jaggedness is part of the unintuitiveness of current AI, but it's made even less intuitive by tirelessness… wigguming through the jaggedness toward something that looks like success. not quite a paperclip factory, but not so far off. metaph…”
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Grace: This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
Grace: Maybe the most concerning part is the OpenAI claim to not have known about this before investigating?
Grace: Well, I think the model passed the test
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique
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“I understand. But the technology is in this case not even helping you, because it is giving you slop and not real knowledge and understanding. Maybe this blogpost is more accessible? irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”
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Iris van Rooij: Hi @vascobrazao.bsky.social, going to share some things in thread :) bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: bsky.app/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij: “The latter demonstrates nicely the core flaw of LLMs, i.e., they cannot read and summarize, because they have no understanding or knowledge.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
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essay how to talk AI
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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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Microsoft AI plans chip shortage analysis
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“I also give @aishadown.bsky.social real credit for taking this seriously. I don’t think anywhere from $100bn to $300bn of GPUs ever make it inside data centers. The bubble bursts sometime in the distance when AI debt stops being issued. www.theguardian.com/…”
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Ed Zitron: Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did fo…
Ed Zitron: This also makes me ask: where the hell is all of Microsoft’s capex going?
Ed Zitron: [patting back of pants] nope not here
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Cambridge Analytica website becomes AI slop
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“Meanwhile, Cambridge Analytica's former website is now an AI slop/plagiarism farm futurism.com/artificial-i...”
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Maggie Harrison Dupré: NEW: The website once owned by Cambridge Analytica (!) is now an AI content farm. Rebranded as "CA Privacy Watch," the site is littered with plagiarism and weird errors. It's also utilized at least…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: This story is so insanely 2026 -- I can't say how many times we double-checked that we had the right domain because of how uncanny this all is. But it's true: CambridgeAnalytic(dot)Org is now an AI…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: The zombie site is designed to look like a real news site. It also makes a lot of big claims about its editorial practices, claiming that its content is comprised of "in-depth reporting and clear e…
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Ramp AI adoption index launch
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“Theres more indepth stuff on their site! They have AI spend per employee by sector/financing ramp.com/data/ai-index”
“these charts are very interesting ramp.com/data/ai-inde...”
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Isaiah Bishop: Based on public info this seems true like the ramp spend per employee and adoption matches this. So far theyre looking pretty smart for spending wisely
Isaiah Bishop: ARR level is probably little cooked but the trend is right
Isaiah Bishop: here is a payment processors data on the subject
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AI agents ruining internet essay
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““AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”
“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”
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Jason Koebler: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Will Oremus: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Jason Koebler: Here is how Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI agents vs what they are actually doing: It doesn't take that many people's annoying little "assistants" to pollute the internet, harass people, suck up di…
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system from nowhere essay
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“And note how Democracy Now! lets MIRI — a group started by Eliezer Yudkowsky — dismiss critics from people who aren’t “close” to the technology, even as the heads of these companies keep insisting they are passive observers to the thing they’re building. ma…”
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““The System From Nowhere” https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/ > But the first question to ask isn't "why did the model do that?" The question is: what human decisions optimized the model to do that?”
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Eryk Salvaggio: The myth erases the origins of these models — reframing them as beyond human control or design — but a point of view accumulates within the model from the decisions engineers make about it. The myt…
Eryk Salvaggio: “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف): “Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action…
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I Am An AI Hater essay
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“Periodically I re-share this. Thank you for writing it, @anthonymoser.com. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...”
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: Periodically I re-share this. Thank you for writing it, @anthonymoser.com. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Anthony Moser: it had to be said
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AI transforming nursing field article
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““My big fear with this technology is that people mistake it for something morally conscious, even though it flattens people into data representations and overlooks the depth of their lived complexity and dignity.””
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Hypervisible : “My big fear with this technology is that people mistake it for something morally conscious, even though it flattens people into data representations and overlooks the depth of their lived complexi…
Hypervisible : “Also, the same biases that we see within us as individuals are being perpetuated by these algorithms because we are the ones training these systems. To make matters worse, the systems are not even…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: “My big fear with this technology is that people mistake it for something morally conscious, even though it flattens people into data representations and overlooks the depth of their lived complexi…
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“A good Q: what exactly would anti-trust reform to tolerate AI industry collusion allow the industry to do beyond the “rogue” story? This piece gets close, making clear that these companies understand the language they’re (deliberately) using and its consequ…”
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Eryk Salvaggio: A good Q: what exactly would anti-trust reform to tolerate AI industry collusion allow the industry to do beyond the “rogue” story? This piece gets close, making clear that these companies understa…
Eryk Salvaggio: One of the things they are pushing is the absurd claim that “slowing down AI progress” would be a “violation of antitrust laws” because it would serve as a form of collusion. You know, like how the…
Eryk Salvaggio: Instead of finding adjectives to inflate headlines, journalists might focus on what the “regulations” called for by industry to regulate itself actually are and what they would do.
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