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science.org

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“This article ends with a good conclusion, but it is extremely misguided along the way. It is also a rich text for exploring how clear language helps make the point better. A thread: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... >>”

“This editor/author does the same “trick” as he writes: "Recently, the ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields. New AI agents can now carry out many…”

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Ai slop books biography amazon

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“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.”

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Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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McSweeney's AI economics satire

AI Economics for Dummies

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“Blood Sacrifice Fridays… lol -mcsweenys on AI finance www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...”

“McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies”

New AI field signal Signal 8h ago

What Data Was Your AI Trained On? xAI Doesn't Want You To Know

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“Tyler Whitmer & Ben Rashkovich of LASST explain xAI's suit against California's AB 2013, a law requiring AI developers to publish general documentation of their training datasets—what they call the functional equivalent of an ingredient label.”

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German media regulator says googles ai overviews subject german media law

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“"Germany's media regulator said on Tuesday that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are subject to the country's media laws, stepping up scrutiny ​of AI-generated content after a German court found Google liable for ‌inaccurate information produced by t…”

Established AI research Analysis 8d ago
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AAUP essay on what AI does

What Does AI Do?

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“The reason they want to automate education is the same reason why we know how to fix it: what makes for "good education" hasn't really changed in 100 years. Small classes, high contact. Lots of movement around the edges but this basic proposition is expensi…”

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Dan Greene : It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals,…
Neil Turkewitz: It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals,…
Dan Greene : There are urgent political problems--like electrification--that are very complicated and difficult. But there are a lot of them, this included, that relatively simple but still quite difficult.
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