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Reaction converging Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories Research & technical analysis · 5 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Entryism Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Developing Models & releases Research 2d ago
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LLM story diversity diagnosis paper

Elias in the Lighthouse, Again? Diagnosing Low Diversity in LLM Stories

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Ted Underwood David Mimno Eryk Salvaggio Grace Sil Hamilton
How the network is reacting 5 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

5 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“In the "Limitations" section they acknowledge that their study was monolingual, but say a multilingual generalization would be interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Ted Underwood: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: was reading this and enjoying it — and then enjoyed it more when it turned out to be a paper by Sil Hamilton and @dmimno.bsky.social
David Mimno: The preprint is arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492, and @srhm.ca is working on a post!
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Established Safety & security Analysis 5d ago
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UN AI panel corporate misbehavior critique

The UN's AI Panel Sees Misalignment. We See Corporate (Mis)Behavior.

5 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Eryk Salvaggio Tech Policy Press Luke Stark Marielza Meredith Martin

“The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as more of an alignment problem rather than an oversigh…”

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Tech Policy Press: The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face inci…
Marielza: The UN AI panel's first Thematic Brief "sets a dangerous precedent at the science–policy interface," argue Jason Tucker, Virginia Dignum and Petter Ericson, by treating the OpenAI-Hugging Face inci…
Marielza: @unodet.bsky.social
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
digital tech control dystopia essay

The Digital Hands Around Our Throat

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Eryk Salvaggio Benjamin Riley

“BlueSky world, I'm looking for: -- US-based creatives (illustrators, film, art, but *not just writing*) -- Who radically oppose AI intrusion into education & schools -- And have created something(s) demonstrating their resistance Is that you? Know someone? …”

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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
AI entryism critique essay

Entryism

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

3 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing policy & governance.
Shared emphasis

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Also see: Baba, A., Cook, D. M., McGarity, T. O., & Bero, L. A. (2005). Legislating “sound science”: the role of the tobacco industry. American Journal of Public Health, 95(S1), S20-S27. doi.org/10.2105/AJPH... For examples of extreme entryism: olivia.scien…”

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Emily M. Bender: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
Olivia Guest: confirming it; seeing it from my account too
Iris van Rooij: Is there something in the water this week? It seems like the "AI" stans are more upset than usual at the thought that their chatbot idols are no more than interactive fiction and a large dollop of …
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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

pnas.org

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Olivia Guest Eryk Salvaggio

“It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detectable (such as, paradoxically, the text becoming less convincing?). Only skimmed this for now, but seems interesting. …”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 5d ago
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DAIR whose categories whose AI essay

Whose Categories? Whose AI?

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Eryk Salvaggio The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Milagros Miceli Dr Zena Assaad

“"The villagers are confronting a standard order of operations: the system arrives first, the problem is expected to arrange itself around the system, and the knowledge needed to define both is settled in another hemisphere." dair-institute.org/blog/whose-c...”

“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …”

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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

doi.org

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Eryk Salvaggio Claes de Vreese

“🚨🚨🚨Publication alert: We can't really tell what is real and what is AI. Our just published study shows that most people struggle to detect AI-generated images. We are approximately as good as ... chance... @madshovethy.bsky.social led a team effort ⬇️ #Open…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago
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Rogue, with Eryk Salvaggio | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

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Eryk Salvaggio Charles Logan

“I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from nowhere" frame used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to wash th…”

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Charles Logan: I doubly appreciated the conversation after participating in a 4S panel yesterday that included a presentation that lacked a similar analysis of power and instead argued we should respond to violen…
Charles Logan: I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from n…
Charles Logan: The presenter was joining us virtual and the mood/eye contact in the room was exactly that gif
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Established Responsible AI Development 6d ago
AI accountability science podcast

Who’s accountable when AI goes wrong? | Science Quickly Podcast

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

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Eryk Salvaggio

“I recently spoke to Scientific American’s Science Quickly podcast about the Hugging Face hack and how to read between the lines of the “rogue AI” frame to find human accountability m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUkf...”

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Debates gaining attention

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2 experts · 8 posts · 3d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Benjamin Riley
Eryk Salvaggio: There are just so many fascinating and worrisome questions to ask about this technology but all of the attention is on the dumbest possible version of them, and I don’t think that’s an accident.
Eryk Salvaggio: Meanwhile, problems that are solvable (not necessarily through tech) go unaddressed, because we are trapped in a structure of debates that has no correspondence to the purpose of a debate.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 4d ago
Eryk Salvaggio Luke Stark Prof. Dr Beth Singler
Eryk Salvaggio: Insisting on “superintelligence” makes it look like it’s the politicized name for the tech, and as if “AI” is the neutral and objective label. That obscures the politics behind the choice to call i…
Prof. Dr Beth Singler: I had a student in his 60s who had worked in tech, but had apparently never heard of 'AI' during that time, and thought that it was at least devised as a term around 2020 🤔
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