How horrible to be a CS grad student under pressure to submit multiple first author papers to every conference deadline, whether they feel ready or not. This serves no one’s best interests in long run (science included). But lots of students appear to being getting advice it’s necessary to compete

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

This excellent piece, from a former Washington Post writer, is the most comprehensive I've seen so far, answering a lot of my questions: Why has the Post's business suffered while the NYT's has been sustained? What are some better possible futures? www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

CS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out! Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️

NEW EPISODE: Award-winning writers and longtime friends @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Karan Mahajan join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss Vara’s recent New Yorker essay “What If Readers Like AI-Generated Fiction?” @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/vauhini-vara...

Very much enjoyed listening to this fun podcast about a certain Tuhin Chakrabarty’s research 😅

This was so fun!!! Listen!!! ✨

Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes the top downloaded papers on #AI in Law for Q4 2025. Read more: spkl.io/63323AmKE7#blog#AI#LawSky #AcademicChatter #AICommunity

very interesting !

It’s often very hard to keep up with non academic reading because of how things are but 2025 was a fun year in terms of personal goals. Largely because of my research. Here are some books that I loved reading this year and I hope you will enjoy them too. #2025

“Seven excellent readers had mistaken an A.I. chatbot for me. Seven excellent readers had mistaken me for an A.I. chatbot.” Vauhini Vara writes about training an A.I. model on her writing—and what the results say about the future of literature. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2SDPRE

Thinking of a fun holiday quiz while you are at home with your family ? Try this 👇

Fascinating and thought-provoking essay by @vauhinivara.bsky.social on AI-generated literature—drawing on research by @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Jane Ginsburg, and @dhillonp.bsky.social. The piece includes an uncanny quiz (which I did terribly on) and a beautiful meditation on literature.

Easy to be a hater on the internet but hey @brhi.bsky.social we have data :-)

What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Is it possible to train A.I. models to produce great literature? In a recent experiment, M.F.A. students preferred A.I.-generated passages over passages written by their peers. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Qgd6Ab

People often dismiss A.I.-generated literature because they read books to access someone else’s consciousness. But what if they can’t tell the difference? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/GVKI7f

An absolute must read if you’re working on AI and storytelling. @tuhinchakr.bsky.social is doing important work and blowing up many common assumptions about generated writing, while coming from a principled POV.

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Very proud of my friend @tuhinchakr.bsky.social being featured in the New Yorker! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Christmas arrived early. What an absolute pleasure to have my research covered by @newyorker.com , that too by one of my favorite writers @vauhinivara.bsky.social :) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Hey, @publisherslunch.bsky.social says Searches is one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year, according to a bunch of year-end lists they looked at! The only other one on here I've read so far is Arundhati Roy's, but I also loved it.

Really cool work !!!

Happy to see George Saunders, Louise Erdrich and Octavia Butler :) Writers who made me realize Sci Fi can be equally rewarding !!

I thought at first that OpenAI was breaking its promise of objectivity. Then I realized it’s just redefining how objectivity functions — something that’s happened over and over. (Gift link!)

This is very accurate especially in the context of good human art and AI ensloppification :-)

If I was still a PhD student I would run to work with @piotrmirowski.bsky.social :)

This is great, I’d just add: 1. Another challenge is lack of serious engagement from AI researchers with humanities scholars. 2. This new work makes it sound like it just takes some finetuning to get big improvements. bsky.app/profile/tuhi...

for something to be considered creative, it has to be semantically/pragmatically felicitous!!!

AI medical scribes MUST include consent, extreme privacy guardrails, and realistic evaluations — none of which are really true for the systems currently (and extensively!) in use. Otherwise this is just another step in a long parade of clinicians, researchers, and medical systems abusing patients.

My favorite slide from @masonyoungblood.bsky.social ‘s talk that pretty much summarizes @asaakyan.bsky.social ‘s new paper on Novelty vs Creativity in LLM generated text :-)

N-gram novelty is widely used as a measure of creativity and generalization. But if LLMs produce highly n-gram novel expressions that don’t make sense or sound awkward, should they still be called creative? In a new paper, we investigate how n-gram novelty relates to creativity.

🚨New paper on AI & copyright Authors have sued LLM companies for using books w/o permission for model training. Courts however need empirical evidence of market harm. Our preregistered study exactly addresses this gap. Joint work w Jane Ginsburg from Columbia Law and @dhillonp.bsky.social 1/n🧵

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

@literaryhub.bsky.social Hey Lithub you don’t respond to emails and its a bit frustrating. Its been over 13 weeks and as a Bibliophile member I am yet to recover my Joan Didion tote bag This is starting to feel a bit unprofessional. And you can do better for your patrons

Can vision-language models understand figurative meaning in multimodal inputs, like visual metaphors, sarcastic captions or memes? Come find out at our #NAACL2025 poster on Friday at 9am! New task & dataset of images and captions with figurative phenomena like metaphor, idiom, sarcasm, and humor.

Very happy to see "Can AI writing be salvaged? Mitigating Idiosyncrasies and Improving Human-AI Alignment in the Writing Process through Edits" get a Best Paper Honorable Mention and is in the Top 5% of submissions for #CHI2025! 🎉 @chi.acm.org Check it out here: arxiv.org/pdf/2409.14509

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑

📣 Stony Brook University’s Department of Computer Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position with an expected starting date of Fall 2025. Link to the job post: careercenter.cra.org/job/assistan...

Come be my colleague :)

In the light of bullshit about AI being creative I got 10/10 in the poetry turing test. I am yet again telling you that please evaluate your AI outputs by human who have expertise. Not to say the AI poetries were so bad I wanna smash my head on the wall

ICLR should not allow public discussion until after decisions. It allows Oscars-style award/accept campaigns by high-profile allies. Even for great papers, that can’t be part of the review process. The only reason it didn’t happen before is because it was against community norms, which are changing.

I did a starter pack of people in New York (City) working on ML/AI. Please distribute and feel free to self nominate! go.bsky.app/BoEtagz

Reminder and hello to newcomers who did the right thing. I guess I will be posting more about trust in our information ecosystem, or lack thereof. And AI.