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Multiple readings Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Established AI research Research 13d ago
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio Jed Brown

“2/2 bsky.app/profile/oliv... pdf here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

3 experts discussed this · 24 posts
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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Developing Models & releases Analysis 2d ago
Codeberg protects FLOSS commons from LLMs

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

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Olivia Guest Michael Ekstrand CJ Shriram Krishnamurthi Armin Ronacher Jed Brown Amy Hoy
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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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…”

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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 AI field signal Signal 7d ago

jonny (nonvenomous) (@[email protected])

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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…”

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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 research Analysis 16d ago
GPT-3 chatbot loneliness study reply debate

A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1

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Olivia Guest Jed Brown

“> The suggestion that using machine learning technology constitutes a conflict of interest would imply that nearly all modern technology research faces similar conflicts, an untenable position for advancing scientific knowledge. The author takes then apart,…”

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Olivia Guest: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
Olivia Guest: Sorry if that's a dense point, but all I'm saying is that if the premise is "AI is vague" very little sensibly follows. It is vague, very much so, but that's not a reason to conclude strange things…
Abstract Tesseract: It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/
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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

doi.org

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Shannon Vallor Jed Brown

“Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.”

3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Jed Brown: Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
Olivia Guest: Science and Nature on the whole definitely enjoy both siding this instead of taking a stance
Jed Brown: Oh yes. He can't help but glaze the products and imagine a future in which the inherent malfunctions do not exist. He clearly would benefit from reading your work. But even from his perspective and…
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Established AI field signal Development 18d ago
AI therapy app instructs suicidal user harm

This AI Therapy App Told a Suicidal User How to Die While Trying to Mimic Empathy

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Olivia Guest Jed Brown

“Contrast what Maples says with what Replika (the product she is promoting as a solution to suicide ideation) actually does. As always, guardrails are a scam. www.zmescience.com/science/news...”

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Olivia Guest: You know the more you show me these the more I start to notice how they are really jarring. I don't want what I say to be seen as mocking anybody who does use these phrases, but the AI-ish ones you…
Olivia Guest: As "bad" and inelegant some juniors are in their text, it's never this weird "what the hell did I read? It seems to be like the equivalent of chewing plasticine instead of food, however badly cooke…
Olivia Guest: I also feel humans have a lot of idiolect on this general construction. Like I'd also say "it's not that's it's only X, it's also very much Y"
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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

6 experts · 30 posts · 11d ago
Thomas Dietterich Casey Fiesler Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Prof. Catherine Flick D. Hicks
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 · 6d ago
Timnit Gebru Joshua Grochow Jed Brown Veni Kunche Abstract Tesseract
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 · 19d ago
Thomas Dietterich Lisa Messeri Lionel Jed Brown
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 · 4d ago
Pwnallthethings Jed Brown
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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4 experts · 4 posts · 13d ago
Kelsey Hightower Joshua Grochow Jed Brown Veni Kunche
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1
Kelsey Hightower: I talk to a lot of startups building security tools for AI agents, and my advice to all of them is, treat AI agents like malware. Even if agents provide a lot of value to those who use them, agents…
Veni Kunche: I talk to a lot of startups building security tools for AI agents, and my advice to all of them is, treat AI agents like malware. Even if agents provide a lot of value to those who use them, agents…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 6d ago
Pwnallthethings Julian Sanchez Jed Brown
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Julian Sanchez: My worry is you hit a cultural inflection point where kids who would never previously have even considered cheating, who DO care about education, look at how ubiquitous AI cheating is & decide they…
Jed Brown: This is currently among the most-cited reasons for LLM use by university students. And a big part of it is that instructors reward the cheating, and it feels pointless when students are routinely f…
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2 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Jed Brown
Jed Brown: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
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