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“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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“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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“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...”
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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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AGI illusion language models essay
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“I wrote more about what I mean about why I mark a difference between “intelligence” and “language production” here: techpolicy.press/the-illusion...”
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Eryk Salvaggio: I find that, no matter how many ways I acknowledge LLMs etc are changing, people dismiss me as “crazy” or “unserious” because I refuse to attribute those changes to “intelligence.” I will say again…
Eryk Salvaggio: I understand that one functions as the other, but LLMs work by printing a path through a process that arrives at a completion point by tightening the tension between word salad and a legible destin…
Eryk Salvaggio: If you want to argue that this is some narrow specific *form* of intelligence, fine, but don’t scope-creep. A capacity for language production doesn’t automatically infer human-bound interpretation…
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models don't go rogue essay
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“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…”
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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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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay
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“One of them is RLVR, which I’ve written about here as clearly as I could, albeit in a different context: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...”
“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”
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Eryk Salvaggio: This may be considered spicy but as someone who wrote a paper in 2022 that put this idea into the world (re: image models) the LLM is not merely reflecting what people say on the Internet anymore; …
Eryk Salvaggio: It parrots the structure of how we discuss ideas to arrive at conclusions. They have abstracted that form of conversation into something a model can work with. But "it was obviously in the training…
Eryk Salvaggio: But all that is pretty confusing if you're stuck on the idea that language is thinking. The paradigm shift is that these models made unthinking erudition possible, and we have to grapple with under…
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“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”
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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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“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 …”
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“Here's what I wrote inspired by that after-the-show conversation: medium.com/whither-news...”
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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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“well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO”
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“Great piece that helps explain the seemingly contradictory rhetoric emanating from the closed AI model companies. I agree the #1 actionable take is to hold the companies accountable for their product’s behavior. https://t.co/WQ60O1WlDr”
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Eryk Salvaggio: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: This is a good succinct summary of the intelligence-as-ideology effects I’ve also been talking about lately (Gift Link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
tweety fish: the amount of begging the question that has infected the discourse top to bottom when new models come out is uh well it's not my favorite
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system from nowhere essay
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““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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“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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“"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
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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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“I wrote about this after reading Mehrtens’ piece on plaster mathematical models. I’m not sure I completely agree with myself on whether the models are truly comparable, so I’d love to see that syllabus. mail.cyberneticforests.com/modeling-lan...”
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Matthew Kirschenbaum: I feel like I say something like this every so often here, but to me it seems that much of the solution to the AI anthropomorphization discourse is right there in the name of the systems themselves…
Matthew Kirschenbaum: But model is also a word that can feel very abstract and inaccessible. I wonder what it would look like to design a course, say, around traditions of modeling, with generative AI as simply one exem…
Eryk Salvaggio: I wrote about this after reading Mehrtens’ piece on plaster mathematical models. I’m not sure I completely agree with myself on whether the models are truly comparable, so I’d love to see that syll…
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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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AI consciousness misconception essay
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“Can AI ever be conscious? The question stems from a misconception www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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Abeba Birhane: what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Eryk Salvaggio: what does @tonychemero.bsky.social's new book 'Intertwined Creatures' have to offer to the “AI consciousness” debate? here is my take on it www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Abeba Birhane: that question does not have a simple yes or no answer. you'll have to read the book
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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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“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...”
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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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