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Multiple readings Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

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404 Media Joanna Bryson Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Christopher Mims Jason Koebler Djamé 🟥 Mél Hogan / The Data Fix +3
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Joanna Bryson: So we all knew how to “google bomb” back in the 00s (remember liar -> Tony Blair?) by linking one page from several others. Is there a gemini bomb? how do we do it? (Hard to believe it’s “unintenti…
Lilian Edwards: It's "LLM grooming" now I believe and takes state actor level resources
Joanna Bryson: Have you a Url about that, by chance?
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Primary source 404media.co ↗
Established Models & releases Signal 5d ago
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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Chris Paxton Grace Artificial Intelligence Papers rev. howard arson René Walter
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Grace: I will register some frustration with Anthropic, who tend to write about “functional emotions” in a way that makes it seems like “functional” is in a tiny font and “emotions” is in a huge one, when…
Grace: I also don’t want to draw strong conclusions about the “realness” of these emotions or sensations, other than to caution that it’s an area where it’s easy to jump to conclusions about the implicati…
Grace: I don’t want to downplay it too much, because I’m honestly not sure if I would’ve predicted it beforehand, but in hindsight it looks pretty expected given the pretraining objective. You should expe…
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Suleyman model welfare warning

A warning about ‘model welfare’

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Shannon Vallor Luke Stark Jason Koebler Anna Mills Mary Branscombe René Walter david-p-reichert.bsky.social

“A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act…”

“this is manipulative design by AI companies. you should read this, written by the head of Microsoft AI: mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab...”

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Shannon Vallor: A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, f…
Shannon Vallor: This essay is such a weird, incoherent bag of correct, useful insights (mostly echoing the work of others who aren't cited, with the welcome exception of @anilseth.bsky.social), mixed with 'wait wh…
Luke Stark: A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, f…
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