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New Policy & governance Development 18h ago
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Mayo Clinic AI patient care lawsuit

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““According to the lawsuit, the team working on MAYA [the clinic’s ai assistant] deleted unflattering test results, mischaracterized the tool’s abilities, and made decisions that put data security in jeopardy.””

“The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism…”

Developing AI field signal Development 1d ago
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AI companies buy old books

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

11 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.””

“New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI…”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Emanuel Maiberg: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Meredith Broussard: companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know d…
Neil Turkewitz: How do you spell TRAGEDY?
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Established AI business Analysis 5d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

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“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”

Developing AI field signal Development 2d ago
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AI spam floods LinkedIn X platforms

LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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““This isn’t something that had really been studied before—how much AI content people are actually seeing,” Max Spero, the CEO of Pangram, told me in a phone interview. “AI content is a tax on readers’ time.” Read now: www.404media.co/linkedin-and...”

“As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually show…”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Jason Koebler: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Meredith Broussard: As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded …
Jason Koebler: As LinkedIn says it's trying to change this, I scroll two seconds and get an AI-generated advertisement by a LinkedIn exec promoting AI. Good stuff
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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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What var tells us about ai

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“Now that the World Cup, with all of its controversies and complexities, is over, we can all agree on at least one thing: VAR sucks. It is the generative AI of the sports world. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-var-t...”

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Casey Fiesler on why LLMs don't really cite their sources

5 experts · 29 posts · 4d ago
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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