“A small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also he…”
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Rachel Coldicutt: What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who …
Rachel Coldicutt: Not sure I'm prepared to crank it back to Alta Vista just yet but why not
Rachel Coldicutt: I was working at a start-up 1999/2000 and I remember coming into work one day and everyone was like LOOK AT THIS!!
“A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.”
“Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that convers…”
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Julie Carpenter, PhD: As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from hu…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: This fall, Salamanca City Central School District in rural Western New York is putting a humanoid robot named "Sally" in the classroom. Not a metaphor. A silicone-skinned, seated robot plus an AI a…
Julie Carpenter, PhD: Start with who's being sold this. Salamanca sits entirely within the Seneca Nation reservation. 32% of students are American Indian or Alaska Native. 79% are economically disadvantaged. This is exa…
“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”
“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”
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Emily M. Bender: So many conversations where otherwise serious people throw around the term "AI" without defining it, despite it being notoriously ill-defined. Thinking about why this might be >>
Emily M. Bender: In some cases, no doubt, the speaker fully believes that autonomous thinking machines are among us. (Though I said "otherwise serious people" in the prev post, so.) >>
Emily M. Bender: In other cases, I suspect that people feel like they lack the expertise to call bullshit and are repeating what they hear others say. >>
““Almost 70% of teens were worried about being a victim of AI-generated sexual content without their consent. Those teens also found themselves taking action to protect themselves, by being careful of what they posted, making their social media private or ev…”
“If you look at all of Biden’s bullets you see this LLM pattern show up in some form or another — LLM templates aren’t a Mad Libs-style template, but they tend to repeat the same form of sentence. I wrote more here, if it’s of interest: mail.cyberneticforest…”
“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”
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Eryk Salvaggio: Not picking on OP or endorsing the trend, but the number of people sharing and being genuinely moved by Hunter Biden’s Claude output is a good window into how audiences see and respond to LLM-gener…
Eryk Salvaggio: A microcosm in the quote-posts, too. And look, I’m not using Pangram (I don’t have to) or calling for anyone to shun anybody. Just noticing something.
Eryk Salvaggio: Can’t say it’s Claude specifically but it has lots of telltale signs. It’s bullets, for one. Two: the terse “The noun verbed” opener. 3, the negative parallelism (“not x, not y. Z.”) repeated twice…
“Not sure of you saw it, but this open letter may be of use/interest: openletter.earth/open-letter-...”
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Iris van Rooij: I am responsible for the academic skills line in our AI programme and I think part of the 26/27 curriculum needs to be to help students understand that all those “AI assistants” that publishers and…
Iris van Rooij: Sadly, we need to teach students now that, in contrast to computers >3 years ago, the current software is actively designed to offer them slop, desinformation, and deskilling. >>
Iris van Rooij: As if learning academic skills was not hard enough, it is now made actively harder by all the bloated “clippies”. Students need to learn and understand that part of growing to be an academic in the…
““If recommendation algorithms gave online platforms the ability to control what people see online, agentic AI offers them an opportunity to control what people do.” Rutgers law professor Ellen P. Goodman considers Sen. Mark Warner's draft AI AGENT Act and d…”
“Wrote a brief reflection on poor conceptualizations in AI work and why they matter, something I believe is so startlingly neglected. TL;DR - Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the credibility and reliability of knowledge claims.”
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Alexandra Olteanu: Wrote a brief reflection on poor conceptualizations in AI work and why they matter, something I believe is so startlingly neglected. TL;DR - Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the c…
Alexandra Olteanu: I'm experimenting with this format, but I'll see if I stick with it
Luke Stark: Wrote a brief reflection on poor conceptualizations in AI work and why they matter, something I believe is so startlingly neglected. TL;DR - Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the c…
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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