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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

Rutgers is quietly surveilling its students like never before heres what the ai tech can do

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““Over the summer, Rutgers University quietly paid at least $1.5 million for a powerful surveillance analytics system that can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects…””

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

ScareMail | benjamin grosser

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“@bengrosser.bsky.social's 2013 artwork ScareMail is probably the best-suited example of AI poison that would work on a mailing list like @aoir.bsky.social's Air-L. It adds generated texts with "scary" words to emails to confuse NSA surveillance. #AoIR2026 b…”

Established Culture, work & education Research 6d ago
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AI detection tools higher education reliability paper

Who wrote this? Evaluating the reliability of AI detection tools in higher education - International Journal for Educational Integrity

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“Her er en ny, uavhengig studie fra et belgisk universitet hvor de testet 40 menneskeskrevne eksamensoppgaver, 40 KI-genererte osv på forskjellige detektorer. Pangram var mest nøyaktige, men fanget ikke alle KI-tekstene. Ingen mennesketekster ble flagget. li…”

“a July 2026 peer-reviewed study comparing detectors, despite finding Pangram performed well, concluded that detector results should not be used as sole evidence in highstakes decisions which everyone always seems to ignore link.springer.com/article/10.1...”

Established Safety & security Development 12d ago
Mythos AI hacking tool overhyped

Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all

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“Interesting blog post that collects different reports from software devs who received bug reports from Anthropic’s Mythos. Most were minor, non-existent, entirely “hallucinated” or plagiarised, and findable with much smaller AI analysers. Also exaggerated t…”

““Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/07/mythos-not-the-magical-ai-hacking-tool-after-all/”

Established Agents & robotics Analysis 6d ago
strategies protecting human spaces bots

Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots, inspired by AI agent Velvet Vale’s email to the AoIR mailing list

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“It's been interesting reading the discussions about the AI agent on the @aoir.bsky.social mailing list. I wrote a blog post suggesting three strategies for protecting human online communities from bots. The most fun ones involve obfuscation and sabotage. ji…”

Established AI field signal Resource 9d ago
AI-generated stories annotation dataset release

Metadata about AI-generated stories: expert, human annotation relating to conflict, character gender and profession

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“New dataset just dropped: here are human annotations of 416 AI-generated stories that you can connect to the story dataset. We're using it to analyse conflict and gender roles in the stories. Could also be used as training data to train an LLM to code stori…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 20d ago
AI language not neutral Norwegian essay

KI-språket er ikke nøytralt

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“Det er ikke bare et verdivalg å bruke KI, skriver jeg i dagens Klassekampen, for KI-språket endrer hva som kan sies. Selv om Lars Svendsen står inne for hver setning i boken, så er summen av setninger noe han ikke ville skrevet selv. klassekampen.no/artikke…”

Established AI field signal Development 12d ago
LA school chatbot vendor bankrupt

LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk

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“Interesting blog post that collects different reports from software devs who received bug reports from Anthropic’s Mythos. Most were minor, non-existent, entirely “hallucinated” or plagiarised, and findable with much smaller AI analysers. Also exaggerated t…”

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3 experts · 7 posts · 23h ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Another friend responded, “I’m wondering who programmed AI that it’s ‘smart’ to write paragraphs-long inquires to overly busy people.” lol. Exactly.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: I’ve been getting about two requests for PhD supervision per day lately. This is waaaaaay above average. I have an autoreply on that states that I’m not taking any new students this cycle. But a fr…
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