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AI fiction idiosyncrasies detection paper
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“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”
“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…”
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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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“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”
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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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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay
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“If you look at all of Biden’s bullets you see this LLM pattern show up in some form or another — LLM templates aren’t a Mad Libs-style template, but they tend to repeat the same form of sentence. I wrote more here, if it’s of interest: mail.cyberneticforest…”
“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”
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Eryk Salvaggio: Not picking on OP or endorsing the trend, but the number of people sharing and being genuinely moved by Hunter Biden’s Claude output is a good window into how audiences see and respond to LLM-gener…
Eryk Salvaggio: A microcosm in the quote-posts, too. And look, I’m not using Pangram (I don’t have to) or calling for anyone to shun anybody. Just noticing something.
Eryk Salvaggio: Can’t say it’s Claude specifically but it has lots of telltale signs. It’s bullets, for one. Two: the terse “The noun verbed” opener. 3, the negative parallelism (“not x, not y. Z.”) repeated twice…
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critical AI essay olivia science
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“All the critical AI stuff is here if useful olivia.science/ai 💞”
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“@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…
Olivia Guest: Also see: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 2/
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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smart glasses surveillance public backlash
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“The "divisive" framing is peculiar since the "division" is between the perverts with the stalker glasses and the people being stalked”
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad: The teeeeeensiest of tiny violins 🎻
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AI not future of software essay
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“If you want to help me to do less non-writing and more writing, why not subscribe to the Product Picnic, the free weekly column where I rage against the machine...learning”
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Pavel: AI boosters claim that LLMs are the future of software development. But that could not be further from the truth. LLMs are the apotheosis of a paradigm 40 years in the making: the tech industry ass…
Pavel: Don't forget to subscribe! —— Thanks @rcmacleod.bsky.social @edzitron.com @nealemahoney.bsky.social @willplummer.bsky.social @gruber.foo @baldurbjarnason.com @ganeumann.bsky.social @kevinr.free-dis…
Pavel: Thanks! The picture is from Openverse
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ChatGPT browser shut down
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“Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"”
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Pavel: Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them): Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"
Abstract Tesseract: Whoever said "fail often" maybe should have been more specific
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AI as boss not assistant essay
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“Yeah, it's one of the things Nothing Managers love most about AI: they can completely isolate themselves from all other people”
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Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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CollectivAlly inclusive research platform launch
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“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…”
agentic coding tools open source commit study
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“AI code leads to a 45% increase in the maintenance burden on human coders”
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“Good start, but really, that decimal place should have been 2 spots further to the right. $1.5B in compensation for 7 million instances of copyright infringement is just over 200 bucks a pop.”
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AI not substitute software project management
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“Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem. But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the num…”
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“It's just the thing we need to get it to move on from goblins”
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AI vs workers perfection double standard essay
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