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Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Policy & governance · 4 attributable reactions
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Established Policy & governance Development 18d ago
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Flock AI police surveillance tool

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

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Justin Hendrix Hypervisible Jason Koebler dell cameron Marielza Katie Drummond Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog +3

“Flock really is building/has built the infrastructure for authoritarianism. The massive pushback they are experiencing right now is because people recognize this fact. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”

“A few other embeds in this story - Explore a full list of Flock's preloaded AI prompts by category. - See a teardown of what police tools get accessed when a prompts is used. www.wired.com/story/flock-...”

2 experts discussed this · 11 posts
dell cameron: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks vis…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Awesome work! It's very good that @dmehro.bsky.social came back! :) You're a great team!
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Established AI field signal Analysis 12d ago
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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Eli Sennesh Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“Second, disagreeing with @buddyyakov.bsky.social , Dean Ball is way, WAY more high modernist than the folks he wants to go after. For more on Dean's "Nick Land Meets the Universalized Unitary Executive," read Cosma and myself in extenso - knightcolumbia.org…”

“yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.”

4 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Isaiah Bishop: you contribute to the RL, you get the equity
rev. howard arson: i keep saying this but LLMs are almost ideally shaped for collective ownership. the union idea is a super interesting direction to go with that
Carlos Scheidegger: yup. Have you read this? knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... It's very good.
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
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AI singularity misread Atlantic essay

The Singularity Is Not What It Seems

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Justin Hendrix Charlie Warzel

“Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is…”

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Charlie Warzel: Wrote a big essay w/ @matteowong.bsky.social trying to put a finger on this moment in AI right now. The AI agent hacks, lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the i…
Charlie Warzel: As I’ve argued before…the primary effect of this technology seems to be to drive everyone mad
Charlie Warzel: At this point, it can feel like no individual person, organization, or government is really steering the technology’s development, not because machines have displaced humans but because so many hum…
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Primary source theatlantic.com ↗
Established Models & releases Research 12d ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Luke Stark Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab René Walter B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

Google Buys Spirit Airlines’ Emails, Files And Flight Records For $10 Million — So Gemini Can Learn From Bankruptcy

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Justin Hendrix Daphne Keller

“Paying to examine every detail of a business’s death spiral has kind of the same vibes as the torturer in the Princess Bride asking Westley to explain his pain in detail, for inclusion in a scientific study of pain. Or maybe Lector savoring Clarice Starling…”

2 experts discussed this · 4 posts
Daphne Keller: Paying to examine every detail of a business’s death spiral has kind of the same vibes as the torturer in the Princess Bride asking Westley to explain his pain in detail, for inclusion in a scienti…
Justin Hendrix: Paying to examine every detail of a business’s death spiral has kind of the same vibes as the torturer in the Princess Bride asking Westley to explain his pain in detail, for inclusion in a scienti…
Daphne Keller: i mean once everyone with customer and business behavior data sets starts selling they might be less special? i guess it depends what’s unique about this one
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