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Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions Multiple readings State media control influences large language models | Nature Research & technical analysis · 3 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Analysis 18h ago
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Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
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Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Accelerating Compute & infrastructure Signal 13h ago
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Data centers environment ai

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Karl Bode
“I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection …” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Alex Hanna Alondra Nelson Hypervisible Damien Williams Karl Bode

“I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection …”

“Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.”

3 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Hypervisible : Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
Alondra Nelson: Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
J. Nathan Matias: Number of cited experts in public health or the emissions from datacenters in the essay: 0
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Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Developing Models & releases Analysis 1d ago
Codeberg protects FLOSS commons from LLMs

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Michael Ekstrand, Jed Brown
“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Michael Ekstrand CJ Shriram Krishnamurthi Armin Ronacher Jed Brown Amy Hoy
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...”

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Amy Hoy: this IS interesting, and it’s something i see a lot on subreddits for specific areas of interest (mac apps, note taking) as well as aspiring-entrepreneur ones lots of fancy-looking projects with ze…
Amy Hoy: i mean as somebody who coaches aspiring entrepreneurs, a lot of them spend way too much time on the idea or prototype and nothing on building a customer base but it usually takes more dedication an…
Amy Hoy: it’s the same old wantrepreneur failure pattern but with an acme rocket strapped to its ass
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Primary source blog.codeberg.org ↗
New Models & releases Research 10h ago
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State media influence LLM training paper

State media control influences large language models | Nature

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Justin Hendrix Gina Helfrich Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo Debora Nozza MilaNLP Lab René Walter B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Research & technical analysis

2 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers thos…”

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Starting a conspiracy theory that the papal encyclical was actually trying to get ahead of and cement Catholicism as the official machine religion
René Walter: OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Primary source nature.com ↗
New AI field signal Signal 20h ago

AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Andreas Kirsch
“Read the whole thing. One of the clearest AI governance papers in a while; the authors propose concrete rules, not vibes. By Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden & Rose Hadshar @forethought_org: Cards drafted with Claude, reviewed by me. www.forethought.org/resear…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Andreas Kirsch

“Read the whole thing. One of the clearest AI governance papers in a while; the authors propose concrete rules, not vibes. By Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden & Rose Hadshar @forethought_org: Cards drafted with Claude, reviewed by me. www.forethought.org/resear…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Andreas Kirsch: Another happy read that we should ponder and reflect on: Forethought's "AI-Enabled Coups". It's a careful, refreshingly unhysterical paper on how a small group (or literally one person) could use a…
Andreas Kirsch: "Today, even dictators rely on others to maintain their power." Soldiers can refuse. Officials can leak. Workers can strike. Power is distributed because it must pass through people, but automation…
Andreas Kirsch: An important quote: > Once one generation of internal AI systems are secretly loyal, they can be instructed to make future generations secretly loyal, too. No further humans are required to acquies…
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Primary source forethought.org ↗
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4 experts · 7 posts · 14h ago
Ted Underwood Meredith Martin Shubhendu Trivedi Marco Z
Matches Policy & governance
“On reflection I’m not sure I respect the candor either, because, does Amodei have any expectation this will persuade ppl in tech? Surely not. Perhaps the actual audience for this is policy makers i…” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Policy & governance · 3
Ted Underwood: On reflection I’m not sure I respect the candor either, because, does Amodei have any expectation this will persuade ppl in tech? Surely not. Perhaps the actual audience for this is policy makers i…
Shubhendu Trivedi: Over time I have come to the conclusion that a lot of this isn't as much about regulatory capture and becoming a designated economic tollbooth (although there's that too). It's more like they reall…
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4 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Juan Diego Rodriguez Christian Wolf jake
Matches Policy & governance
“Why would they deserve a ban? They have submitted technically correct, albeit trivial or boring work” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Eugene Vinitsky: Everyone who knows how to use a computer is now saying “well, why shouldn’t I use AI to write a paper and send it to a conference? Worst case it’s rejected.” The wave is coming.
Eugene Vinitsky: And they’re right! It’s all upside to them with no downside. Personally I think anonymity is going to have to go.
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4 experts · 6 posts · 13h ago
Damien Williams Karl Bode Erin Kissane tweety fish
Matches Policy & governance
“And, again: golf courses and flat lawns and monocropping agribusiness practices are ALSO BAD. *More Than One Thing Can Be Bad*!” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Damien Williams: I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thi…
Damien Williams: And, again: golf courses and flat lawns and monocropping agribusiness practices are ALSO BAD. *More Than One Thing Can Be Bad*!
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2 experts · 17 posts · 4h ago
Pwnallthethings SE Gyges
Matches Policy & governance
“here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: here's who signed both the Pacing the Frontier letter released today and the Pause AI letter in 2023 demanding an end to all research for six months also, raw counts for "signed today's letter" and…
SE Gyges: fundamentally this is an anthropic thing that managed to recruit some people from other companies
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3 experts · 6 posts · 23h ago
Timnit Gebru Louise Amoore Baldur Bjarnason
Matches Policy & governance
“Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese m…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Timnit Gebru: Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese m…
Timnit Gebru: The irony of OpenAI and Anthropic running to the government to save them whenever there’s competition and it’s this government that complains about “handouts” and communism.
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3 experts · 4 posts · 4h ago
Mike Masnick rev. howard arson Neil Turkewitz
Matches Policy & governance
“Tech companies love to talk about “self regulation.” But self regulation is an oxymoron—it means no regulation. Self regulation is a predicate for Network States & the disabling of democratic socie…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Policy & governance · 2
Neil Turkewitz: Tech companies love to talk about “self regulation.” But self regulation is an oxymoron—it means no regulation. Self regulation is a predicate for Network States & the disabling of democratic socie…
Mike Masnick: As much as I cannot stand Musk or xAI... On this I think he's right that this law violates the First Amendment and is preempted by 230. There are other approaches to dealing with NCII and deepfakes.
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3 experts · 4 posts · 9h ago
Justin Hendrix Kate Klonick Jake Laperruque
Matches Policy & governance
“Can we add a "How scared are you of LOSING THE AI ARMS RACE TO CHINA?!?" path to avoid all the pesky regulation discussion” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Kate Klonick: Yeah but I should have added "Have you considered an open letter?" under "Do you work for an AI Company"
Jake Laperruque: Can we add a "How scared are you of LOSING THE AI ARMS RACE TO CHINA?!?" path to avoid all the pesky regulation discussion
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2 experts · 4 posts · 7h ago
Maria Antoniak suhr
Matches Policy & governance
“To elaborate, them cooperating and working with OpenAI frames them *both* as victims of some external force. We've lost an opportunity to set a precedent for holding *people* accountable” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
suhr: Maybe we should be holding HuggingFace responsible for not suing the shit out of OpenAI.
suhr: To elaborate, them cooperating and working with OpenAI frames them *both* as victims of some external force. We've lost an opportunity to set a precedent for holding *people* accountable
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2 experts · 4 posts · 1d ago
Ted Underwood Cameron
Matches Policy & governance
“Yep. But tech news and updates *about AI*, and I keep an AI-generated banner image specifically so I stay blocked by people who feel strongly about policing other peoples' use of computers. Good fe…” evidence ↗
Ted Underwood: It's 243,000, but hey — directionally correct!
Ted Underwood: Yep. But tech news and updates *about AI*, and I keep an AI-generated banner image specifically so I stay blocked by people who feel strongly about policing other peoples' use of computers. Good fe…
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