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Reaction converging Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Research 6d ago
⚡ 17 h early
LLM story diversity diagnosis paper

Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

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Ted Underwood David Mimno Eryk Salvaggio Grace Sil Hamilton
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Reaction converging

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“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”

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Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
⚡ 5 h early
GLAM OCR model leaderboard launch

BHL OCR Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by finebooks

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David Mimno Daniel van Strien

“A 15.9M-parameter specialist OCR model outperforms many VLMs hundreds of times larger. On a 2,165-page historical eval dataset, Kraken PP-OCRv6 ranks #4 on reading CER and #1 when long-s, ligatures and case are preserved. huggingface.co/spaces/fineb...”

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2 experts · 2 posts · 5d ago
David Mimno Daniel Lowd
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
David Mimno: Remember that LeCun was one of about 5 people in the world who thought neural networks were worth studying in the 2000s
Daniel Lowd: I strongly agree that things outside of LLMs are worth studying, but I strongly disagree that LLMs are not worth studying.
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