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Multiple readings Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
Codeberg protects FLOSS commons from LLMs

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Shriram Krishnamurthi, Armin Ronacher
“I respect Codeberg's right to take a position on this, and I understand why they might feel this way, but this is kinda' crazy. Glad I'm not using it, because I'd have to move some projects off of it. The article is also just confused in some ways. blog.cod…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Michael Ekstrand CJ Shriram Krishnamurthi Armin Ronacher Jed Brown Amy Hoy
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...”

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Amy Hoy: this IS interesting, and it’s something i see a lot on subreddits for specific areas of interest (mac apps, note taking) as well as aspiring-entrepreneur ones lots of fancy-looking projects with ze…
Amy Hoy: i mean as somebody who coaches aspiring entrepreneurs, a lot of them spend way too much time on the idea or prototype and nothing on building a customer base but it usually takes more dedication an…
Amy Hoy: it’s the same old wantrepreneur failure pattern but with an acme rocket strapped to its ass
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Established Policy & governance Resource 18d ago
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Cambridge AI policy programme

CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
“Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai…” evidence ↗
6 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Peter Henderson Sean O hEigeartaigh Dan Hon Stephen Turner Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Jed Brown
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

1 expert

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai…”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“This is wild, but really great investigative journalism. I guess all the jailbreaking papers trying to prevent "How do I build a bomb?" queries have been vindicated... So much for it being an unrealistic scenario... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u... casp.ac/r…”

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Established Agents & robotics Signal 6d ago
⚡ 31 h early

NY School District Hits Pause on Robot Teacher Amid Scrutiny

3 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Julie Carpenter, PhD
“Salamanca has paused the robot pilot. The district cited unresolved student data privacy agreements with the state; the state cited concern over humanoid robots in the classroom. nysfocus.com/2026/07/24/n... Thanks @wendynorris.bsky.social” evidence ↗
3 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Julie Carpenter, PhD Jed Brown Veni Kunche

“Salamanca has paused the robot pilot. The district cited unresolved student data privacy agreements with the state; the state cited concern over humanoid robots in the classroom. nysfocus.com/2026/07/24/n... Thanks @wendynorris.bsky.social”

Primary source nysfocus.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

An AI Mistook a Doritos Bag for a Gun and Called the Cops on a Teenager

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“Not even toy guns, but bags of chips carried by Black kids will be cause to attack with drone swarms piloted by remote war-gamers with no context or situational awareness.” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Jed Brown

“Not even toy guns, but bags of chips carried by Black kids will be cause to attack with drone swarms piloted by remote war-gamers with no context or situational awareness.”

Primary source futurism.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 8d ago

jonny (nonvenomous) (@[email protected])

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“From the record, it appears that HuggingFace vibe-coded the original vulnerability, then had radically-incompetent incident response, uploaded sensitive logs to Anthropic and then into a specified open-weight model in a way that'd be vulnerable to prompt in…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Jed Brown

“From the record, it appears that HuggingFace vibe-coded the original vulnerability, then had radically-incompetent incident response, uploaded sensitive logs to Anthropic and then into a specified open-weight model in a way that'd be vulnerable to prompt in…”

4 experts discussed this · 19 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: Good thread if you want some context on the OpenAI “hacking” event you may have heard about.
Eryk Salvaggio: Key point re: mainstream AI reporting about “breaking containment” or whatever — the failure to isolate the model *is* the *incident.* OpenAI wants to sell you safe LLMs but they left their chicken…
Mark Riedl: Good thread if you want some context on the OpenAI “hacking” event you may have heard about.
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Established AI field signal Signal 8d ago

Five us tech giants hidden debts soar to 1.65tn on opaque ai funding

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“I think it should not be overlooked that they also added some $200B in off-books debt obligations this year. archive.ph/202607201742...” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Jed Brown

“I think it should not be overlooked that they also added some $200B in off-books debt obligations this year. archive.ph/202607201742...”

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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

6 experts · 30 posts · 12d ago
Thomas Dietterich Casey Fiesler Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Prof. Catherine Flick D. Hicks
Matches Concern & critique
“Therefore, the possible failure mode here isn't just fabricated citations - a model can include a real paper in a real journal by a real author, but be *completely* wrong about what it says. The ci…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Research & technical analysis · 4
Casey Fiesler: Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources"…
Casey Fiesler: A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was cons…
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5 experts · 8 posts · 8d ago
Timnit Gebru Joshua Grochow Jed Brown Veni Kunche Abstract Tesseract
Matches Concern & critique
“You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit …” evidence ↗
Timnit Gebru: You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit …
Timnit Gebru: Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in marketing. Lol and branding what happened as Ope…
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4 experts · 6 posts · 20d ago
Thomas Dietterich Lisa Messeri Lionel Jed Brown
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“Yup! My co-author (a leading psych researchers) and I have spent the past two years mounting this methods critique to cog scientists, speaking at major conference (on panels with some of these auth…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Jed Brown: Social scientists can often predict the result of studies in advance. Does that mean we shouldn't conduct the studies? Just ask an anointed expert? This paper doesn't examine construct validity, wh…
Lionel: This is quite the finding for a device thats just a plagiarism machine, or whatever we are calling it this week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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2 experts · 13 posts · 6d ago
Pwnallthethings Jed Brown
Matches Concern & critique
“would be a pointless eval run if it were prompted with anything other than the bare eval text itself, which given that it is ExploitGym is about turning vulns into exploits, not about targeting inf…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
Pwnallthethings: agree on the former, disagree on the latter tho.
Pwnallthethings: would be a pointless eval run if it were prompted with anything other than the bare eval text itself, which given that it is ExploitGym is about turning vulns into exploits, not about targeting inf…
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