“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”
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
“AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident: "Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong." Superpersuasion by dull tone has punch. I still suspect this is the same psych mechanis…”
““It is not just that people trust wrong #AI answers. It is that the mere availability of AI suppresses the cognitive habit of recognising what you do not know.” #GenAI #LLMs thenextweb.com/news/ai-advi...”
“It'd be nice if people actually read what Sanders' proposal is about: It's about putting half of the big AI companies' stock into an independent national fund. Independence really means designed to minimize the possibility of popular control. President nomi…”
“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...
“1. Political Bias Audits of LLMs Capture Sycophancy to the Inferred Auditor arxiv.org/abs/2604.27633 (that study is contested osf.io/preprints/me... but imo the argument makes sense) 2. Reality has a liberal bias goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-truthi...”
“As a reminder, LLMs recognize when they're being tested and have a tendency to answer based on what they think an alignment-tester wants to hear (for example, "racism is bad", etc) - and swapping cues about the politics of the tester changes the outputs. ar…”
“* B.O.B. (Birds Over Big Bird) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAXO... * A referendum for another development model thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/a... * Introducing the Gap Map v0.1 www.currentai.org/blogs/introd... 4/”
“Map of Open Source AI: "We evaluated over 24,626 projects from foundation models through inference backends, assessing projects across openness, capability, and adoption." Map: map.currentai.org Blogpost www.currentai.org/blogs/introd...”
“AFAIK Gopnik states that models lack Innovation and exploratory intelligence, but that tjey do show exploitative intelligence. Regarding no research programm: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi... I haven't read those papers yet, but "no research" is quite a stretch.”
“Researchers recently termed this as LLMorphism: arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419 Here's an article about this kind of synthetic theory of mind: "there are people who somewhat admire or respect the way that generative AI and LLMs get things done, and they want to be…”
“Now it gets funny. Here's the "review" on Gizmodo gizmodo.com/neill-blomka... a piece of reactionary crap that doesn't even try to get into aspects of filmmaking or AI-cinema and simply types what reactionary luddites want to here. That's not tech journalis…”
“So, Neill Blomkamp made an AI gen shortfilm about zombie soldiers: "Every frame was generated in Seedance 2.0 — directed shot by shot by Neill Blomkamp, through prompts. The characters on screen carry the faces and voices of 32 real people, photographed and…”
““Authenticity is now something you can perform, while imperfection is now something to perfect. ... If slop is the precipitate of optimization, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of slop." open.substack.com/pub/etymolog...”
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…
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…
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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