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Established Models & releases Development 16d ago
⚡ 83 h early
US government suspends Anthropic models

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

34 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Justin Hendrix Suresh Venkatasubramanian Mike Masnick Anil Dash Tim Kellogg Sung Kim +26

“Well, this situation is confusing. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

“This is wild. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...”

5 experts discussed this · 40 posts
SE Gyges: us government has rendered it illegal to give access to fable or mythos to foreign nationals ^_^ www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
SE Gyges: this means nobody can have either of them btw. because they haven't KYC'd their customers hard enough.
SE Gyges: dario got what he wanted
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 15d ago
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Meta glasses face recognition rollout

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill dell cameron evacide Katie Drummond Eileen Clancy 🧿 Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Andrew Couts +4

“We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/s…”

“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
dell cameron: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Justin Hendrix: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
dell cameron: While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them local…
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Primary source wired.com ↗
Developing Policy & governance Analysis 1d ago
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UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Joanna Bryson Eryk Salvaggio tweety fish Katie (Kathryn) Conrad

“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

“Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @t…”

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Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Established Culture, work & education Development 17d ago
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AI alters user drafts opinion study

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Justin Hendrix Hypervisible

“Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sen…”

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Hypervisible : Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even…
Hypervisible : “One of the co-authors, Prof Sandra Wachter, compared the effect of AIs introducing bias into social media posts to ‘polluting the forest’”.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account): "instructed to preserve the original sense." Ah yes; good thing LLMs were built to comprehend tone, nuance, and intent.
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Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
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AI social technology framework essay

AI as Social Technology

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Henry Farrell Karen Gregory Carlos Scheidegger Chris Marsden

“and this with Cosma is in part about how the two ideas fit together knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...”

“(Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)”

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Carlos Scheidegger: My best guess is, take equal measures of: - Francis Spufford's Red Plenty - Shalizi and Ferrell's LLMs as Social Technology then interpolate. Something like a tech-forward rendering of "knowledge p…
Carlos Scheidegger: (Sorry, that's "AI as Social Technology": knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...)
Pwnallthethings: they'd have *loved* it. Dumped ungodly amounts of energy and labor into making it pervasive
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Primary source knightcolumbia.org ↗
Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
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Meta facial recognition feature exposed post-denial

Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Justin Hendrix dell cameron
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
dell cameron: wow seems weird tbh
Justin Hendrix: wow seems weird tbh
dell cameron: sorry
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Primary source futurism.com ↗