OpenAI math research misconduct allegations
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“OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say archived: archive.ph/JCl4g”
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“OpenAI claimed their products have solved several complex math problems, so what’s the issue? OpenAI just took credit for work done by humans without proper citations. When people in my field do that, they get tenure. Hahaha Red more: www.scientificamerican…”
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Timnit Gebru: These men who say factually and technically wrong things with such confidence are so fascinating to me. HE doesn't know what a language model is and thinks that OUR formulation is wrong. Because HE…
Timnit Gebru: Emily Bender is a more patient person than me and has written a Frequently Unasked Questions about this. I have seen a whole bunch of people saying this like its some gotcha talking point they've a…
Timnit Gebru: We even DEFINED what language models are in our paper and gave their history.
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“OpenAI has an automated AI “research intern” openai.com/index/resear...”
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“The impact of AI-native development at OpenAI • Researchers use $600+/day of AI tokens with the top 10% at $7,000+ • Humans still plan, but OpenAI says it hit “automated research intern” in 2026 and targets an automated researcher by 2028. • The need for in…”
global workspace theory language models paper
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“LLMs similarly have nonphenomenal access to information, and can reflect and use memory. This is indeed similar in principle, while the cognitive architecture is vastly less complex (yet), and likely won't catch up anytime soon. Add to this Anthropics j-spa…”
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“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”
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“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”
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Tim Duffy: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
Tim Duffy: More detail on the method from the paper:
Grace: Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refi…
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation
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“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”
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“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”
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Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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In the Weights newsletter issue
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”
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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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Anthropic Claude formalizes Fermat theorem
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“Hey, Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem www.anthropic.com/research/for...”
State media influence LLM training paper
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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models don't go rogue essay
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“Well we just disagree here, that's ok. Because I don't think it helps anyone to credit AI agents with "building a civilization" (or three) and hinting that the little guys getting dangerously smart. I'm with @eryk.bsky.social: mail.cyberneticforests.com/mod…”
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Timnit Gebru: Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked m…
Timnit Gebru: At a certain point I have to ask myself if I got all this pedigree and spent decades doing research and building things to then spend the rest of my life attempting to come up with good arguments a…
Timnit Gebru: Agents didn't "confer" that is anthropomorphization of computer programs trained to do certain tasks.
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“The video of Marwa Abdulhai and Isadora White's talk about this paper is now online here - they present a pretty complex computer science paper so clearly, I highly recommend watching it if you're interested in using LLMs to edit or draft writing might do: …”
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“LLM adoption through the lense of viral dynamics and cultural transmition: "once a critical threshold is crossed, small increases in adoption can trigger rapid population-level shifts toward persistent dependence, with abrupt losses in cognitive competence"…”
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“The Information is reporting it as a basically done deal :( www.theinformation.com/articles/nvi...”
“I suspect Nvidia buying Hugging Face is them getting ready for a localLLM world in which circular investment stuff with giant AI-corps won't work anymore. LocallAI still runs on Nvidia chips, so getting the leading open models distributor is a smart move.”
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“LLMs--> LLD (less language diversity) https://t.co/pcWXXTQ0MC @NatureHumBehav”
“Yes, and what's worrying in that context is the well documented homogenization effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Crucial in this study is that LLMs not only shrink linguistic space, but do away with linguistic identity markers. Who knows what this gonn…”
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Snickers HUNGR.AI marketing campaign
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“In case anyone is curious what the weird dithered Snickers actually does. www.snickers.com/hungr-ai”
“Advertising by prompt injection is a thing now www.snickers.com/hungr-ai”
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“These pundits do not exist. derexperte.ggor.de / @derexperte.ggor.de Beautiful AI art project producing fake experts on german TV with made up fake expertise for fake fields. You know, just like in actual media reality!”
LLM consciousness disproof paper
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“Oh, had no idea @erikhoel.blogsky.venki.dev wrote a disproof of AI consciousness using continual learning arxiv.org/abs/2512.12802 I'd argue that subjective experience requires more than that, but temporal coupling and self-modification is a start.”
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“Switching off AI-consciousness self claims turns LLMs into esoteric cranks believing in vampires. Vice versa, the AI-consciousness guardrails surpress attribution of mind to nonhuman animals, which is desinformation. Want your chatbot cranked or cold?”
children vs AI creativity comparison
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“This was a really great conversation with Chris Hayes about AI, general intelligence (spoiler alert, there is no such thing) and cognitive science www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWD...”
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