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In the Weights newsletter issue

IN THE WEIGHTS

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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich Amanda Tepski +3

“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

“I did not know of this joke quote Funnily enough, a tool for seeing how you're weighted in the LLMs recently told me that Kashmir Hill is either me or a Himalayan mountain range, so it could indeed be a land of contradictions. Tool: intheweights.com”

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austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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AI Compass navigation guide resource

The AI Compass

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Maria Antoniak Simon Willison Brian Merchant Scott McGrath Grace Nicole Hennig Dan Greene tante +7

“not wrong! bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

“Source code here: github.com/bambamramfan... - try the quiz here: bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

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Grace: Did anyone else get this?
David Picard: Patron saint: Gary Marcus? Ouch! 😬🫣
Tim Duffy: I do recall one question where I wanted there to be one more extreme answer past the final option
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Atlantic essay AI writing tic

The Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious - The Atlantic

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Will Oremus Frank Pasquale Cori Crider René Walter

“OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

““One of the main ways that AI models have continued to evolve is by training on text generated by other bots. That AI text is presumably replete with negative parallelism, which further bakes it into the newer model.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...”

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Will Oremus: I set out to understand why AIs love negative parallelism. The answer wasn't just surprising—it was illuminating. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Will Oremus: OK the truth is no one knows for sure why AIs love "It's not X—it's Y" but there are some strange and fascinating theories and I think this one is my favorite. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Will Oremus: Anyway I hope you read the whole piece if you're interested, because it isn't just an explainer—it's a journey. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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On interpolatable archives essay

On Interpolatable Archives (Clean)

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“If you're interested, i recently used Aby Warburg in my take on LLMs goodinternet.substack.com/p/on-interpo...”

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austin: oh i like this
Dan Hon: Oooh that's goo
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Ehhh, this falls down as soon as you imagine anything that is actually bad. "I have a hungry ghost in a jar making nonconsensual nude imagry of children"—definitely something a hungry ghost in a ja…
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4 experts · 37 posts · 10d ago
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Ted Underwood: Anyone commenting on AI should be asked 1) Did you expect few-shot learning? 2) When chat came out, did you say "this will change syllabi"? 3) Did you predict agentic coding? If the answers are no,…
Ted Underwood: People are getting a pass on this because *most* of us missed these calls. But that's the wrong response. Actually, none of us deserve a pass. We all have burned fingers, and we all should have lea…
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5 experts · 8 posts · 12d ago
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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…
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René Walter: Let's not forget that China by committing to open weights and AI-support especially for developing countries also means cementing a censored dictatorial episteme around the world in which Tiananmen…
Sung Kim: After the continual genocide coverup in Gaza, I am questioning Uyghur camps.....
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