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“But LLMs are, to this day, still well enough understood as stochastic parrots. It's an accurate description of the technology. Many AI models involve more than LLMs, as fellow co-author Margaret Mitchell pointed out, but it's *still* a useful critical frame…”
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“I reposted this, but tacking itonto this thread as well bc I think it's useful context. Margaret was also a co-author of the Stochastic Parrots paper and recently offered some thoughts on which parts of the analogy hold up (and which have been widely misund…”
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Will Oremus: feels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying…
Will Oremus: you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than ju…
Will Oremus: or if it is parroting, it's stretching the bounds of your conventional understanding of that term so far as to render it misleading. parrots cannot solve complex problems, self-interrogate and self…
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“This is so misleading I'd count it as irresponsible journalism. Conflates people using personal agents for banking (not something I'd do, but you do you) with rogue AI swarms roaming banking networks, which would be an actual worrying thing and for which th…”
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“Most/all of this seems to be users giving Muse/Dot/whatever AI agent they're running access to their bank accounts, and then not knowing what those agents are doing / banks not being able to detect authorized vs unauthorized stuff. what could go wrong? www.…”
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Kevin Collier : This is so misleading I'd count it as irresponsible journalism. Conflates people using personal agents for banking (not something I'd do, but you do you) with rogue AI swarms roaming banking networ…
Andrew Couts: Editor’s note: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
dell cameron: it's def gonna happen now
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AI black box industry myth
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“"No one understands" You say a whole bunch of things like they are facts. Which they are not. Just because you don't understand doesn't mean "no one understands." www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...”
“Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techp…”
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Timnit Gebru: Lolll I've been doing this shit forever and saying the same exact thing I'm saying right now more than a decade ago and am "being pushed by contrarian media dynamics." 🙄 All of you are hypnotized b…
Timnit Gebru: The absolute disrespect with which even those of you who say you "have respect" for me teat my decades long expertise, receipts body of work and discourse based on that never ceases to amaze me.
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): "risk taking human existence" wtf is this person on about
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“And every time I pause to look back at that, it seems like the hype has gotten bigger, more extensive, and more insidious. This week, I am seeing credulous media coverage of Anthropic consulting with religious thinkers to try to work out how to "grow" Claud…”
“Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.””
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Eryk Salvaggio: Gift Link: “It appeared to Rabbi Navon that Mr. Olah and his team believed that Claude had what philosophers call “moral status” on par with a person.”
Louise Amoore: Well it’s interesting. I mean, to me the problem here is this notion of “to abide by a moral code”.. so the reduction of ethics to a code or a set of principles by which we live or “abide”. This is…
Louise Amoore: actions according to their fit to a code, well then this is already a matter of exercising normative power. If instead we ask how do ethical norms arise in the context of algorithmic power (exercis…
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AI entryism critique essay
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“Also see: Baba, A., Cook, D. M., McGarity, T. O., & Bero, L. A. (2005). Legislating “sound science”: the role of the tobacco industry. American Journal of Public Health, 95(S1), S20-S27. doi.org/10.2105/AJPH... For examples of extreme entryism: olivia.scien…”
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Emily M. Bender: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
Olivia Guest: confirming it; seeing it from my account too
Iris van Rooij: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
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Gebru Bender AI war risk essay
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“I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to hum…”
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“New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.…”
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Emily M. Bender: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Luke Stark: New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that s…
Emily M. Bender: Yes we mention this in the article.
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AI apocalypse framing essay
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“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”
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“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”
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“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”
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Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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LLM story diversity diagnosis paper
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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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UCSB humanities ML conference
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“The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!”
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Fabian Offert: Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/c…
Harald Klinke: Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/c…
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AI doomerism bad science business critique
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“One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussi…”
“AI companies are calling for regulation in ways that let them set the rules, not independent parties who can hold them to account. “If you read between the lines, everything [Amodei] advocates [for] is something that would help companies like Anthropic,” sa…”
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute: AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Coxon and Anthropic "d…
Emily M. Bender: AI doomerism isn't sound science, it's a parlor game. Great to see reporting that pushes back and quotes experts like @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social. Coxon and Anthropic "d…
Teresa Heffernan: Published a paper that traces the fictional roots of irrational claims that superintelligent machines pose an existential risk: "Orga is not Mecha: How Literal Readings of Fiction are Damaging the …
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UN AI panel corporate misbehavior critique
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“The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversigh…”
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Tech Policy Press: The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face inci…
Marielza: The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face inci…
Marielza: @unodet.bsky.social
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11d ago
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“I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from nowhere" frame used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to wash th…”
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Charles Logan: I doubly appreciated the conversation after participating in a 4S panel yesterday that included a presentation that lacked a similar analysis of power and instead argued we should respond to violen…
Charles Logan: I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from n…
Charles Logan: The presenter was joining us virtual and the mood/eye contact in the room was exactly that gif
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Cybernetic Forests AI newsletter
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“Here's my very close reading of what a stochastic parrot is, and how I, personally, make sense of it. Because I felt like getting roasted by literally everybody on BlueSky today.”
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Benjamin Riley: “Highwaaaaaaay to the…DANGER ZONE”
Eryk Salvaggio: Clarified in-text. I meant the models, though whether I really mean "sequences" is a good question.
Eryk Salvaggio: Here's my very close reading of what a stochastic parrot is, and how I, personally, make sense of it. Because I felt like getting roasted by literally everybody on BlueSky today.
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