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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 Policy & governance reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Zuckerman, Scott McGrath, Alex Hern
“Maria hails back to the last #attention2026 conference in which Megan Garcia spoke about her lawsuit against Character.ai, which led her son to suicide. Ressa notes that Character.ai just went bankrupt. There are real ways to hold these systems accountable …” evidence ↗
10 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ted Underwood 404 Media Ethan Zuckerman Ed Zitron Scott McGrath Alex Hern Colin tachikoma +2
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
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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9 experts · 63 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Cat Hicks Chelsea Parlett critical slop studies Adam L Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“(my mother-in-law was an underpaid daycare worker devoted to the children she cared for, literally remembers all of them, so this is actually a very real example to me!)” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Markets & investment · 4 Research & technical analysis · 1
Cat Hicks: "why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often har…
Cat Hicks: because tasks gate other tasks. Because measuring the hours saved by washing machines is a relatively useful index for quality of life improvement. Because the time it takes for you to get from the…
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3 experts · 23 posts · 16d ago
Ted Underwood Juan Diego Rodriguez Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
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“I like compromises. But one place I don't believe in meeting people halfway, or 5% of the way, is the notion that AI would be better if not based on texts/images that governments have made illegal …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ted Underwood: It's okay to learn from everything, and train on everything. That's everyone's birthright, and we shouldn't apologize for it. Prohibitions on copying were a late invention, and a narrowly tailored …
Ted Underwood: I like compromises. But one place I don't believe in meeting people halfway, or 5% of the way, is the notion that AI would be better if not based on texts/images that governments have made illegal …
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4 experts · 13 posts · 15d ago
Ted Underwood Tim Carmody Meredith Martin jake
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“In theory, off stage. But all the plots happen at the rare atypical moments when laws happen to come into conflict and alignment becomes problematic.” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: Huh, there ARE no science-fiction novels written about largely inert and harmless AI. Guess we don’t have real AI yet! Let’s consult our map of SF-plot-worthy AI and emulate that:
Meredith Martin: @annaleen.bsky.social would like a word
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2 experts · 9 posts · 15d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood
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“I really think the parroters have zero impact on policy. If "have the ear of elites" means "Are they quoted favorably by profs tired of chatbot essays, and other people already disposed to hate AI?…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Genie‘s out of the lamp, cows out of the barn, etc etc
Eugene Vinitsky: “Is AI useful“ is already an answered question and when folks pick fights with the usual suspects about it, it’s mostly for the fun of picking fights at this point
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