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Established AI field signal Development 7d ago
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Meta NameTag face recognition glasses controversy

Perverts of the world rejoice! It’s Meta’s new dodgy old mate glasses | First Dog on the Moon

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“My bizarre prediction is since no one can tell smart glasses from real glasses in plastic frames that people are going to migrate to frameless and thin metal glasses just to avoid looking like they are perving on people. New style trend. www.theguardian.com…”

Developing Models & releases Analysis 2d ago
blog posts LLM repair essay

Blog Posts as LLM Repair Code

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“Claude created a mess with a dumb way it tends to write prompts. I wrote a blog post about this failure mode, but that still left me with a massive mess to tidy up. Then I came up with an idea: have Fable read my post & fix the issue. It fucking worked. mik…”

Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

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“www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...”

2 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Charlie Warzel: such a good, sad window. these side quest conspiracies are just desperate attempts to protect an alternate reality they've been fed algorithmically. the utter popularity of this film is evidence th…
Charlie Warzel: what bothers me most—and what always bothers me as somebody who covers this type of thing for work—is how much time and energy is spent attending to these alternate realities (debunking them, argui…
Mike Caulfield: It's almost like the Internet is a justification machine
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Established Models & releases Analysis 12d ago
LLM prompt writing limitation essay

I Finally Understand Why LLMs Suck at Writing Prompts (And It Might Be Fixable)

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“I've wondered a long time why LLMs are so bad at writing prompts for users to use when they seem to be so good at prompting on the fly. It turns out the two things are related.”

Established AI field signal Analysis 16d ago
four tips better prompting essay

Four Tips for Better Prompting

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“These are short teachable habits and if we spent a fraction of the time we spend yelling at one another about the latest Futurism post actually teaching students how to use AI like this the world would be a better place. More on four habits of prompting her…”

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Mike Caulfield: In fairness the reason people think hallucinations are still the core problem of AI is hallucinations are absolutely still a problem in the *free* models. This one about Soderbergh's noir The Under…
Mike Caulfield: In reality a character at the end is staking out Rachel and eating peppermint patties while watching her movement
Mike Caulfield: If you want to avoid this however it's easy. Just ask AI evidence for sources for its claims and it will quickly identify it as a hallucination
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 17d ago

Claude Artifact

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“I did a bit of Fable (and Opus) assisted research on a difference I noticed in how Fable makes decisions on tagging data. The upshot is that Fable seems to treat "certainty" thresholds differently but predictably. This is an AI report here, but could be use…”

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3 experts · 3 posts · 12d ago
Ingrid Burrington: Inability to adjust pedagogy against the interests of trillion-dollar corporations, the indifference of key decisionmakers, the hostility of many policymakers, and a fiendishly clever artificial in…
Mike Caulfield: It was even true with the "just be more interesting than their phones" thing. I mean, come on. It's an algorithmic portal to billions of dollars of entertainment content + a constant connection to …
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