How to avoid concreting cowpats (and other AI hokem) Or, six questions to help scrutinise the AI system or policy solution you're being sold Delighted to write for @thehousemag.bsky.social @politicshome.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.

Here's your essential reading list for this labor day! Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant A People's Guide to Capitalism By Hadas Thier The Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski Chokepoint Capitalism by Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin bookshop.org/lists/ai-tec...

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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

1. It’s not good that police are experimenting with AI generated police reports 2. It’s really not good that the software makes it easy to turn off features requiring human oversight

This whole thread by @mmitchell.bsky.social is great and worth a read. Meta could fix these problems, but they won't.

This. So often, these stories are presented as "AI is causing ____ problem" as though the people misusing AI are not responsible for their own actions.

This is very concerning...

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For example: "We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered. Of these, the vast majority (106 datasets [93%]) had the word gender switched to sex." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

this hits hard

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Oh man sounds like a really dangerous tool maybe we should regulate it

This is creepy and weird: The company...provided scripts to evoke facial expressions they wanted Grok to understand, suggesting conversation topics like "How do you secretly manipulate people to get your way?" or "Would you ever date someone with a kid or kids?" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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P is for Regulation. S is for Zero-day risks.

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

there's a reason society has spent many centuries coming up with the law of agency and fiduciary duties If your agentic AI doesn't come with any legal responsibility to you as the principal, it's not your agent; it's your sleazy used car salesman with access to your credit card and all your data

We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard. “This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?' Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

That is super funny!

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Not only are these studies getting cancelled, but the rates of cancer among young people have increased in recent years. So depressing that we're cutting federal funding for treatment when we need it more than ever.

Anyway,

Ok, time for a short thread about this paper. My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks. But how revolutionary is it?

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

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Most people aren’t actually interested in your ideas. They just want to see if you agree with theirs.

Don't miss @womeninaiethics.bsky.social's May 29 webinar at 11am ET on AI and Labor featuring @iajunwa.bsky.social, author of "The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace." The next day, return for our May Reading Circle discussion of "The Quantified Worker". 👇Sign up below!

A computer scientist’s perspective on vibe coding:

men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy

This is incredible. This computer science professor makes his students play a game that simulates the risks and repercussions of getting Long COVID, and then he's like, hey anybody want a mask? And: "approximately 95 to 100% of students who’ve played the game now wear masks in his classroom."

Just in time for spring 🌸5 new must-read books on AI. Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill The AI Con by Alex Hanna, Ph.D. and Emily M. Bender The AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor Empire of AI by Karen Hao bookshop.org/lists/5-new-...

The next time someone tells you some dumb-ass tech thing is "inevitable" even if a company has spent tens of billions of dollars on it

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