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· Jeffrey P. Bigham
“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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Concern & critique
3 experts
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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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…”
Questions & unknowns
1 expert
What remains unresolved or contested.
“OpenAI is begging for money so they don't release a monster when not releasing a monster is in fact very easy. Their systems can all be turned off (and if they can't, uh?) openai.com/index/huggin...”
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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tech-forward future skepticism essay
7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Ali Alkhatib
“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”
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Policy & governance
1 expert
Rules, institutions and accountability.
“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”
Building & implementation
1 expert
How teams are shipping and applying it.
“Note “the possibility of communities forming compacts that establish minimum terms for data center development, allowing them to prevent firms from playing various jurisdictions against one another in a race to the bottom.” www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-futu…”
Research & technical analysis
1 expert
Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”
LLM story diversity diagnosis paper
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Ted Underwood, David Mimno, Eryk Salvaggio
“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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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“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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system from nowhere essay
6 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“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…”
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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…”
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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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latent diffusion neural economy paper
3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“But my favorite nerdy observation is that Async is an MRI company — and the latent diffusion process is built on U-Net, which was widely used in medical imaging (I call this the move from corpora to corpus in my “market in the model” pre-print!) arxiv.org/a…”
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“But my favorite nerdy observation is that Async is an MRI company — and the latent diffusion process is built on U-Net, which was widely used in medical imaging (I call this the move from corpora to corpus in my “market in the model” pre-print!) arxiv.org/a…”
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Eryk Salvaggio: The way these models work now, any mechanized “taste” (aesthetic preferences) operates as a constraints on what models produce; that constraint would be recognizable in images people shared. They w…
Eryk Salvaggio: Taste, as a curatorial instinct that balances novelty and familiarity, is already re-enacted by these models. We don’t recognize it as such but these mechanisms aim to “automate discernment;” LoRAs…
Eryk Salvaggio: Aesthetically valued diffusion-generated images exist, they just require calibrating the discernment mechanism away from default model aesthetics. That has to be rare to hold information. But look …
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LLM story consistency analysis paper
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· arxiv cs.CL
“Thennal DK, Hans Ole Hatzel Do Large Language Models Always Tell The Same Stories? https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17350”
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“Thennal DK, Hans Ole Hatzel Do Large Language Models Always Tell The Same Stories? https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17350”
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16d ago
2 directory members surfaced this signal.
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“Very recent (2 weeks ago!) research seems to support my experience: Agents don't stick to the plan, especially as the context window fills up with junk, which seems to me like an inevitably byproduct of producing language until the words independently arriv…”
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“Very recent (2 weeks ago!) research seems to support my experience: Agents don't stick to the plan, especially as the context window fills up with junk, which seems to me like an inevitably byproduct of producing language until the words independently arriv…”
LLM training data diversity paper
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“Not surprising, but this study suggests LLMs & LDMs actually produce *less* than the variety present in their training data: “across different model scales, sequence lengths, and decoding strategies.” arxiv.org/abs/2609.02275”
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“Not surprising, but this study suggests LLMs & LDMs actually produce *less* than the variety present in their training data: “across different model scales, sequence lengths, and decoding strategies.” arxiv.org/abs/2609.02275”
DeepTRACE deep research citation audit paper
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“I see a disconnect b/w critique & described systems from late 2025. But lots of issues persist. Here's a 2025 Salesforce paper; users still "regularly encounter overconfidence, weak sourcing, and confusing citation practices." arxiv.org/abs/2509.04499”
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“I see a disconnect b/w critique & described systems from late 2025. But lots of issues persist. Here's a 2025 Salesforce paper; users still "regularly encounter overconfidence, weak sourcing, and confusing citation practices." arxiv.org/abs/2509.04499”
1 directory member surfaced this signal.
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“Remember the claim in 2023 that "Theory of Mind had spontaneously emerged" in GPT-3? Also in 2023 AutoGPT claimed it could automate agentic workflows and failed spectacularly. Many critics were justified in dismissing those claims. arxiv.org/abs/2302.08399”
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“Remember the claim in 2023 that "Theory of Mind had spontaneously emerged" in GPT-3? Also in 2023 AutoGPT claimed it could automate agentic workflows and failed spectacularly. Many critics were justified in dismissing those claims. arxiv.org/abs/2302.08399”
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16d ago
2 experts are actively discussing the implications.
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· Eryk Salvaggio
“For example, web search and summarization was terrible: In 2023 51.5% of Web summaries misstated what they cited. They were rolled out anyway (and sometimes rolled back). arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848”
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“For example, web search and summarization was terrible: In 2023 51.5% of Web summaries misstated what they cited. They were rolled out anyway (and sometimes rolled back). arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848”
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Eryk Salvaggio: Much respect to Ted but we could just as well flip this. Three years ago companies were making claims that were genuinely inaccurate descriptions of their capabilities. Pure LLMs *were* terrible se…
Eryk Salvaggio: For example, web search and summarization was terrible: In 2023 51.5% of Web summaries misstated what they cited. They were rolled out anyway (and sometimes rolled back). arxiv.org/abs/2304.09848
Eryk Salvaggio: Remember the claim in 2023 that "Theory of Mind had spontaneously emerged" in GPT-3? Also in 2023 AutoGPT claimed it could automate agentic workflows and failed spectacularly. Many critics were jus…
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