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Established AI field signal Signal 11d ago
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science.org

13 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

13 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Established AI field signal Resource 19d ago
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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

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Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

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AI companies hiding staggering debt

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artif…”

Established AI field signal Development 9d ago
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AI spam floods LinkedIn X platforms

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““This isn’t something that had really been studied before—how much AI content people are actually seeing,” Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, told me in a phone interview. “AI content is a tax on readers’ time.” Read now: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...”

“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…”

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Jason Koebler: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Meredith Broussard: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Jason Koebler: As LinkedIn says it's trying to change this, I scroll two seconds and get an AI-generated advertisement by a LinkedIn exec promoting AI. Good stuff
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Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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Google spiralling AI costs

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

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“www.bbc.com/news/article... Google in the poorhouse! "The company's free cash flow, the cash it maintained after paying for operations and investments, came in at negative $5.9bn (£4.3bn) for the first time in at least a decade, according to its past financ…”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

AICDI Bonta Amicus%20No%2026

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“CA Bill 2013 requires a developer of a genAI system to post a high-level summary of the datasets it used for training. xAI argues that the Constitution forbids California from requiring such disclosures. This excellent amicus brief from the AI Coalition for…”

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2 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago
Mar Hicks: The levels of sexism, racism, and colonialism to this… miyaacacia finds that her face and voice have been stolen to make an AI avatar with pink hair and slightly modified features called “pinkwasian”
Mar Hicks: Oh and also the words in that ai fake were Miya’s own exact words, from one of her viral videos. So they stole that too.
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2 experts · 4 posts · 19d ago
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
Mary Branscombe: I spent a good decade developing computational methods to study history with a wide angle lens. I even co-wrote a book about it called The Historian's Macroscope. LLMs are weird. They're actually m…
Mary Branscombe: I wonder how much of that is the framing available to them; seeing the novel work LLMs are doing in maths around Erdos conjectures makes me wonder what framing structures the maths corpus gives the…
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