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Accelerating Models & releases Signal 7h ago

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

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“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”

“I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...”

Developing AI field signal Resource 1d ago
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JEDI SIGIR 2026 workshop

JEDI workshop @ SIGIR 2026

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“Looking forward to continuing the conversation on Friday at the Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) Workshop. Please join us! jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/ cc: @jedi-workshop.bsky.social”

Established AI field signal Analysis 4d ago
AI researchers Twitter dependence essay

What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging

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“The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?”

“References 1) rl-blogging.leaflet.pub/3mqxlvav2ss2z”

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Eugene Vinitsky: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Michael Ekstrand: The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
Eugene Vinitsky: Yep! This is why I'm less interested in castigating than building better spaces. This was more an idle exploration of what people must think to justify their behavior
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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dl.acm.org

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“I want to make this into a blog post (series) someday, but I'll start w/ a thread teaser… short list of papers foundational to my research thinking. First up is Green & Viljoen's Algorithmic Realism - we must study algorithms in practice and in situ, not ju…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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mitpress.mit.edu

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““Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...”

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Michael Ekstrand: “Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's …
Cat Hicks: Ordered!
Michael Ekstrand: when I saw them present the conference paper version at FAccT 2020, my immediate reaction was “wait, my research paradigm has a name now?”, and it's become a mainstay of my research talks and bibli…
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Developing Responsible AI Research 2d ago
fairness information access systems paper

Fairness in Information Access Systems

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“I'll now drop one of mine, not to be vain but because it's the place where I've most explicitly pulled several of these threads together into my own (and co-authors') synthesis. Chapter 4 is the lynchpin. Clearest place to start for “how does Michael think …”

Developing Models & releases Research 2d ago
evaluating generative AI social science paper

Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge

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“For a much newer one, capturing a line of thinking that I've been living in a lot for the last few years, and working on a paper about — measurement and AI eval, by @hannawallach.bsky.social et al. proceedings.mlr.press/v267/wallach...”

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

tandfonline.com

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“In a similar vein, I turn to When Fairness Fails by @annalauren.bsky.social to situate fairness in the broader, relational landscape of human existence and power structures and reason about its limits and contradictions. Throwing fairness at everything over…”