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6h ago
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AI slop knowledge destruction critique
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“Btw, kind heads: this is AI generated slop "definition" See also: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...”
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Iris van Rooij: Something that may be difficult for non-experts to grasp is that experts can recognise when a student’s text is not meaningfully connected to cited literature in the expert’s area of expertise.
Iris van Rooij: Not unrelated to this irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Iris van Rooij: And related to this bsky.app/profile/oliv...
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23h ago
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companies scramble cut AI token spending
11 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“TIL from https://t.co/349k1txWLV that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to convert PDFs into markdown! https://t.co/lWkPqhJ0QI”
“Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” w…”
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404 Media: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
Teresa Heffernan: Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. They're not the only company now telling staff to slow down on AI use @evy…
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AI local laws database built
4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawzero.org/en”
Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“LawZero (lawzero.org/en) has $300m from the Canadian and German governments to build AI as a global public good, with a focus on building safe, responsible and equitable AI.”
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Olivia Guest: Sup dawg, I heard you trust AI, so I put an AI in your AI so you can trust AI while you trust AI.
Teresa Heffernan: Exactly the crazy model the Canadian gov is promoting: let's give Benjio, with donors from all the usual suspects, even more money to burn so we can build "AI you can trust" with the same AI 🙄 lawz…
Olivia Guest: prob I should sue
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8h ago
AI TV hacking satirical video
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“I never owned a TV and then they got "smart" so I still refuse to own one”
student essay fears ChatGPT as TA
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Nvidia donates 250m to UK AI safety research
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“Remember when NVIDIA gave a "donation" of $250M to research into AI safety? Could this donation along with theMicrosoft 'investment' promise (both represented by SAIL lobbyists) be a way to convince ministers on data centres (& probably other regulation of …”
companies pull back from AI rush
12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Questions & unknowns
2 experts
What remains unresolved or contested.
“I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“You could 've asked any experienced information system/tech researchers, & we could have told you what would happen. ”Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back. Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work." w…”
Established
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Development
4d ago
AHM mathematicians issue AI statement
11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statem…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“"OpenAI has indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest... We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject" …”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“The human mathematicians are not happy with OpenAI. It’s a fascinating argument. Not about capabilities, but about the culture and norms of science. www.ahmath.org/statements”
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Abeba Birhane: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
joao: "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of scie…
Olivia Guest: maybe some useful points on this terminological issue here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi85...
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Analysis
3d ago
AI apocalypse framing essay
10 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
3 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“From the promises and catastrophic musings of tech CEOs to extraction from the earth and from human creativity to AI's inevitable end → read the full essay: www.equator.org/articles/aru...”
Markets & investment
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Capital, companies and commercial impact.
“Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵”
Questions & unknowns
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What remains unresolved or contested.
“"It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us."”
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Justin Hendrix: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
David Kaye: i had to scroll to the end for this modest, "arundhati roy is a writer"
Eryk Salvaggio: "It feels a little like that moment before the tsunami in 2004. Remember how, in Thailand and Indonesia, the ocean drew back from the coastline? ... We’re in that moment now. A towering wall of stu…
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Developing
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Analysis
2d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“"AI literacy" is like "cigarette literacy" explaining how to light up with swagger. What we need is critical AI literacy (see olivia.science/ai/ from @olivia.science), which is a completely different curriculum. One that is liberating.”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”
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Olivia Guest: I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts…
Olivia Guest: 2) industry buys people out a great deal and conflicts of interest are often not properly displayed. Many already have started rebranding as AI literacy and even critical AI literacy "experts" — wh…
Olivia Guest: Obviously, when you see research that involves anything to do with AI, look up what side projects these people have, what startups they spun up, & sadly if they are in the Epstein files, etc. bsky.…
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4d ago
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Accenture cuts Claude monthly spend limit
6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“If an employee goes over the allocated $29 workers have to find a specific project or team (called a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS at Accenture) to fund the rest of the usage. www.404media.co/accenture-te...”
“New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404me…”
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Joseph Cox: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
e.w. niedermeyer: seems like poor leadership, perhaps they could hire some kind of business consultancy to help provide a more consistent management structure
404 Media: New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to t…
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AI theoretical tool cognitive science paper
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“the paper on reverse engineering I linked to has many references on this / what happens if you grant formal realism / naive computationalism / makeism see, e.g. doi.org/10.1007/s421... doi.org/10.1007/s110... doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...”
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4d ago
ChatGPT aided Tumbler Ridge school shooter
9 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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“Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to …”
“www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...”
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Paris Marx: The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the followin…
Paris Marx: Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC.…
Paris Marx: I read this story and can’t help think of the breathless coverage media has given these delusional fantasies about superintelligent AI killing humanity in ten years, when companies are releasing to…
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Signal
1d ago
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Established
AI field signal
Development
4d ago
⚡ 8 h early
AI tool police homes interior photo
5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.
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Concern & critique
1 expert
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Probably nothing to worry about for homeowners unless there are a bunch of other devices taking images in your home and making that data available for sale. Good thing no one would do that.”
Context & explanation
1 expert
Background, chronology and why it matters.
“In other words, from a single photo, Raven appears to be able to quickly find the specific home it was taken in, without using location data or other metadata attached to the image. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...”
Belgian scientists resist AI academia
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critical computer website resource
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Reminder: critical.computer#about > This is therefore a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it (as much as possible) as a central topic — and absolutely no using it.”
AI literacy laundering critique paper
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