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Reaction converging arxiv.org Research & technical analysis · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings Critical AI Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 15d ago
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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper

AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ali Alkhatib
“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…” evidence ↗
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Olivia Guest 404 Media Chris Brockett Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. Ali Alkhatib Pavel By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”

“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”

5 experts discussed this · 23 posts
Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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arxiv.org

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Aram Sinnreich, ae, Andrea Lathrop
“Next time someone tries to tell you an LLM is conscious, send them this article by a principal scientist at Microsoft: If LLMS Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514” evidence ↗
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Aram Sinnreich Pavel ae Andrea Lathrop Matthew Sheffield
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ae: Mad lad trains neural network in Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514 @surcomplicated.bsky.social
ae: this is funny "Lemma 1 (NAND Gates in AoE II). It is possible to build and operate a NAND gate in the scenario editor by using one player, two units acting as the {0, 1} bits, and no other components"
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Also, the Town Square can speak Chinese.
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Anthony Moser
“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/” evidence ↗
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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“All the critical AI stuff is here if useful olivia.science/ai 💞”

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

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Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
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Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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Established Models & releases Release 17d ago
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CollectivAlly inclusive research platform launch

CollectivAlly Platform Launches with Inclusive Research | Lucy Collins posted on the topic | LinkedIn

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Pavel
“The latest indignity from the world of AI is an "inclusive" product that simulates disabled users, creating an excuse for software teams to avoid doing real research. As always, "empathy" from the industry only serves to displace the needs of real human bei…” evidence ↗
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Pavel Veni Kunche

“The latest indignity from the world of AI is an "inclusive" product that simulates disabled users, creating an excuse for software teams to avoid doing real research. As always, "empathy" from the industry only serves to displace the needs of real human bei…”

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2 experts · 2 posts · 18h ago
Christopher Mims Pavel
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“*skims your post* being a weird loser? I've been training for this all my childhood” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Christopher Mims: Surely I can’t be the only one who is deliberately being weirder and looser in my correspondence just so people know it wasn’t written by AI?
Pavel: *skims your post* being a weird loser? I've been training for this all my childhood
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