“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”
“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”
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Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
“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…”
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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…
“Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...”
“The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Rea…”
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Jason Koebler: Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, …
Jason Koebler: Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vo…
Jason Koebler: Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to
“"When a company chooses to opt you into an AI feature, they are making decisions with real-world consequences," @thiccreese.bsky.social writes. If a company "opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled w even more deepfakes becomes more…”
““If a company automatically opts millions of users into a deepfake tool, then a world filled with even more deepfakes becomes more possible. And that's a reality I’d love to opt out of.” My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/please...”
“CA Bill 2013 requires a developer of a genAI system to post a high-level summary of the datasets it used for training. xAI argues that the Constitution forbids California from requiring such disclosures. This excellent amicus brief from the AI Coalition for…”
“The more attenuated one’s relationship is to a particular domain, the more likely they are to believe that AI might be useful in that domain. I wrote a short piece about one time I referenced AI’s potential as a research assistant, & how @emilymbender.bsky.…”
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Olivia Guest: Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things…
Iris van Rooij: Please consider not saying that some AI models or some statistical models are good, useful, beneficial, whatever else positive, in science if it's not your research area. It's ok not to know things…
Olivia Guest: SE is not science, for one. And two, I think it's also really important to understand that arguments against AI do not hinge off factive utility. bsky.app/profile/oliv...
“I think you’ll like this essay by @atomless.bsky.social “Predictive systems only simulate coherence, without, in fact, recognising the user as a subject at all; they do not truly respond to intention or meaning, only to statistical correlation.” 👀 @irisvanr…”
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Neil Turkewitz: How is cognition like democracy? “Cognition is not a state, but a collection of capacities.” We are more than the sum of our parts. Our humanity isn’t reducible to data.
Iris van Rooij: How is cognition like democracy? “Cognition is not a state, but a collection of capacities.” We are more than the sum of our parts. Our humanity isn’t reducible to data.
Olivia Guest: you will love dialectics, if you like this way of thinking ☺️
“I don’t understand why Wired would give her this opportunity to whitewash her own legacy in contributing to the development of AI in ways that undermine our humanity. For example, as former head of Global Public Policy, she’s well aware of Google’s unsavory…”
““The AI economy is a trillion-dollar ouroboros of buying & selling, investment & equity staking, all happening between San Francisco & San Jose. Big Tech is advancing money to AI start-ups to buy cloud services from Big Tech, which is using the revenue to r…”
“Sound advice for anyone considering signing an AI deal. “Technical safeguards-/input filters, output filters, vocal classifiers—are only as good as the consequences for failure… When an AI company presents you with a ‘licensing agreement,’ read it like a li…”
“This essay is, in my view, too generous/forgiving with regards to AI use given that AI models are rooted in misappropriation & exploiting, but I agree wholeheartedly with this 👇🏽”
““OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company.” @wired.com should have channeled its inner @theonion.com and added “In a Move That Surprised Everyone, Even Him.””
““An artist’s creative endeavour is their work and their property. No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist’s control. That includes the artist’s control of the price & value of their work. Anything l…”
Emily M. Bender: Not loving how the #ACL2026 keynote represents "philosophy" graphically here.
Emily M. Bender: If the point of the example is not to critique the lack of gender diversity in philosophy, then representing it like this only reinforces that. Plus: the Greeks are not the only ancient philosophers!
Eryk Salvaggio: We really must acknowledge that when you see “AI” making half-assed work it’s because someone looked at it, said “good enough” and shared that half-ass work just to stand by it, point out that it w…
Eryk Salvaggio: Like yes Gen AI UX is designed to encourage half-assery but Netflix is designed to keep you binge watching and we would not tolerate an academic staying up all night watching the Great British Bake…
Emily M. Bender: I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and espe…
tante: I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and espe…
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