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Multiple readings Hugging face model evaluation security incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions Reaction converging Models Don't Go Rogue Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Words matter damnit fc883733a729 Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions +1 more reaction maps further down
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Established Evaluation & benchmarks Signal 13d ago
⚡ 1 h early

Hugging face model evaluation security incident

22 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Vincent Conitzer, Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
“Previously, these AI hacking stories were about breaches in test environments, where any question of AI breaching security was purely theoretical. This is something else. openai.com/index/huggin...” evidence ↗
22 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Thomas Steinke Jeffrey P. Bigham Eryk Salvaggio Mor Naaman Tim Kellogg Djamé 🟥 Ryan Calo +14
6 experts discussed this · 11 posts
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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Developing Safety & security Analysis 1d ago
models don't go rogue essay

Models Don't Go Rogue

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Benjamin Riley, Elke Schwarz, René Walter
“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…” evidence ↗
8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Timnit Gebru Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Shannon Mattern Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Benjamin Riley Elke Schwarz René Walter
How the network is reacting 3 experts are independently emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”

5 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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Established AI research Research 3d ago
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Olivia Guest
“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2” evidence ↗
4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio Jed Brown

“All my resources are in my pinned post / here olivia.science/ai but perhaps most useful for OP is this? Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/2”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
Olivia Guest: New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM"…
Olivia Guest: Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our g…
Olivia Guest: Anyway, back to the work itself (from the abstract): > Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal [...] and pragmatic accommodation that treats LL…
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Established AI field signal Signal 19d ago
⚡ 99 h early

Words matter damnit fc883733a729

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“I genuinely have no idea what Jeff Jarvis is arguing here. Is he arguing for the right to select the words we use? Because we do not select individual words when using an LLM. Is he concerned about Claude's freedom of expression? Because that might be even …” evidence ↗
4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Alex Hern Colin
3 experts discussed this · 15 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: I genuinely have no idea what Jeff Jarvis is arguing here. Is he arguing for the right to select the words we use? Because we do not select individual words when using an LLM. Is he concerned about…
Benjamin Riley: Great example of how not understanding how these things work can lead to a presumably well-intentioned but totally misguided perspective.
Eryk Salvaggio: My sense is that this might be about the devaluing of the craft of writing and word choice, but the selection criteria of words for a language model is already doing that: language already shows up…
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Developing Compute & infrastructure Analysis 2d ago
⚡ 6 h early
system from nowhere essay

The System From Nowhere

6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Frank Pasquale
““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…” evidence ↗
6 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) Frank Pasquale Neil Turkewitz Jeffrey Vagle
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-…”

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1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“The System From Nowhere is a media problem: What (the system) is optimized to do; what training data shapes it; what counts as a valid response: these are mechanisms put in place by human decisions. Good reporting on AI would discuss them. Instead, they “no…”

Questions & unknowns

1 expert

What remains unresolved or contested.

“"We're told that AI did something, and journalists don't have to wade into why or how. It lets them cover a story without raising technically complicated questions...or confusing questions about the way they’re built and why they are built that way." mail.c…”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
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…
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…
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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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

We Have Always Been Action TheoristsToward

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...” evidence ↗
3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Eryk Salvaggio Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Dr Zena Assaad

“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...”

“g/g online.ucpress.edu/representati...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Eryk Salvaggio: Engages significantly with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social et al’s “Again Theory,” which I’ve often been looking at myself this year critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/a...
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Yes, I just read it with interest (as they say).
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3 experts · 5 posts · 18d ago
Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
Matches Concern & critique
“am still looking for someone to come chat with me on The Data Fix about these so called rogue ai! ping me!” evidence ↗
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: am still looking for someone to come chat with me on The Data Fix about these so called rogue ai! ping me!
Olivia Guest: am still looking for someone to come chat with me on The Data Fix about these so called rogue ai! ping me!
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