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Multiple readings character.ai Policy & governance · 6 attributable reactions
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character.ai

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“How people are removing surveillance ads from their TVs; a big AI shakeup at Accenture; and the Character.ai bankruptcy.” evidence ↗
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Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
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thebes: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
Grace: am sick so spent the night with opus 5.5 working on a chart (inspired by the one from lem's golem xiv) how did we got here / model genealogy / the heroic age of language modeling
thebes: i think it's too late for the period i was focused on (i carried the branches to the modern day but only if they started in the period in question)
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3 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Grace Isaiah Bishop
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“Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels” evidence ↗
Grace: Human-written vulnerabilities are a finite resource we’re burning through like fossil fuels
Isaiah Bishop: I do think we kind of overestimate AI capability because it just find so much low hanging fruit immediately
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3 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Adam L
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“Check back with me after a rogue AI has done let’s say 1/4 as much damage as happened through abuse of executive authority over the last two years. At that point I’ll be interested in seriously med…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: Generally we say “how unfortunate that this is happening under a would-be authoritarian regime in the US!” But there’s also an upside of having this conversation at a moment when we’re acutely cons…
Ted Underwood: Check back with me after a rogue AI has done let’s say 1/4 as much damage as happened through abuse of executive authority over the last two years. At that point I’ll be interested in seriously med…
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3 experts · 4 posts · 5d ago
Ted Underwood SE Gyges Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“The problem I see is that most of the pro-IP anti-AI policies pushed by anti-AI people hurt open-source AI more than the closed-source AIs run by billionaires. I think it's critical that we make a …” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: I worked with a doctoral student here (Ke-Rou Wang) who studies perception of musical creativity. She did some testing of unlabeled samples. I think her work is embargoed at this point while it mov…
SE Gyges: most of the ai music you have heard is the equivalent of ai music mcdonalds also, the primary barrier to making it good and selling it on those terms has -- for some years! -- been that it is ultra…
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