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Multiple readings Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Companies throttle employee AI spending

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
““Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...” evidence ↗
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404 Media Hypervisible Joseph Cox Emanuel Maiberg Social Media Lab Joshua Grochow Veni Kunche
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

““Crazy, we go from no more [AI] leaderboard to actual usage limits in two weeks,” one Amazon employee said in a reply on Slack. www.404media.co/companies-ar...”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

““Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…””

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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
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“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
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“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 · 12 posts · 11d ago
Shannon Vallor Matthew Kirschenbaum Jake Browning Joshua Grochow
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“It bothers me how many AI critics are failing to keep their critiques aligned with where the models actually are. I hate to give it to the haters (of the haters), but good criticism has to get clos…” evidence ↗
Shannon Vallor: It bothers me how many AI critics are failing to keep their critiques aligned with where the models actually are. I hate to give it to the haters (of the haters), but good criticism has to get clos…
Shannon Vallor: I have deep sympathy—you don’t want to stay close to something that you are watching erode your students’ capacities and confidence in real time, or that’s capturing your government, or undermining…
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3 experts · 5 posts · 4d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Joshua Grochow Singularity's Bounty e/cc
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“If you're involving an LLM in paper writing / generation, your standard of care needs to be higher not lower! It's an under-tested technology which brings new risks” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: If you're involving an LLM in paper writing / generation, your standard of care needs to be higher not lower! It's an under-tested technology which brings new risks
Eugene Vinitsky: You can use the time you "saved" to check your paper more if you're going to do this
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