Cool new finding by @cj-robinson.bsky.social: Grok is now submitting the majority of edit requests to Grokipedia. (As @harold.bsky.social and I found a few months ago, also quoted Grok chats with users on X more than 1,000 times. This is all totally normal.) www.cjr.org/tow_center/g...

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

@davidingram.bsky.social covered @mantzarlis.com and my work on Grokipedia citations for NBC! much more to analyze here www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

back again to share a new preprint from me and @mantzarlis.com! “What did Elon Change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia” arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685 I had seen many spot analyses of individual grokipedia pages, but I was curious: how was grokipedia made? what did Elon change from wikipedia?

NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia. Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts. Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

line go up📈📈📈 up to 717k requests to wikipedia per second!! grafana.wikimedia.org/d/O_OXJyTVk/...

continuing on the real-time public Wikipedia data train: here's a graph of requests / second to WMF infra over the last 3h, since "Habemus papam" The infrastructure has gone from 172k req / sec to 243k req / sec (⬆️41%) in under an hour! follow along here: grafana.wikimedia.org/d/O_OXJyTVk/...

english wikipedia pageviews for the conclave movie starting from oct 20 2024 (five days before release in the US) first big spike is the academy awards, second is pope francis’ death pageviews.wmcloud.org?project=en.w...

excited to share this new piece by @bkeremg.bsky.social and @m0na.net (edited by me) about conceptualizing AI alignment as a process of censorship really fascinating line of critique — I strongly encourage you to read it and lmk what you think! joinreboot.org/p/ai-alignme...

and set your devices to update automatically!

Reminder that a key part of the privacy harms from genetic information is the fact that *we all share genes with our relatives*! Deleting or refusing to share genetic information protects your family in addition to yourself oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Excited to announce a new preprint from my lab (with @rishi-jha.bsky.social and Vitaly Shmatikov; my first as a first author!) about severe security vulnerabilities in LLM-based multi-agent systems: “Multi-Agent Systems Execute Arbitrary Malicious Code” arxiv.org/abs/2503.12188 1/12

do you have ~feelings~ about location sharing culture? i'm editing a project on locations and want to hear from YOU (<5 min) forms.gle/iG1UZJKrcNwm...

brb updating median voter theory to reflect the fact that 30% of american adults read at a 10yo level or below from on.ft.com/4fBSEwy

courtesy of @vrandecic.bsky.social

hi world! are you interested in writing stories about campaign finance (or understand how money flows)? 🗣️📈DATATALK📈🗣️ is a platform for asking natural language Qs of FEC data that I've been working on with folks at Stanford, Big Local News, and the Brown Institute datatalk.genie.stanford.edu

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new piece out in Reboot! this one is a deep dive into the extreme privacy community — the people who dedicate their lives to hiding from the internet what drives people to want to disappear? what can we learn from them? joinreboot.org/p/threat-model

[chanting] hey hey! ho ho! automate that CEO! www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/t...

does anyone know anyone / have experience doing archival research into the Manhattan Project? I have a (now passed) family member who claimed that he was a part of the project but refused to tell family members any details about what he did there

somehow ended up on the wikipedia page for dan savage and came across this absolutely unhinged gem of a story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage#2000_Iowa_caucuses

If you live in AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MI, MN, NH, NM, PA, RI, VA, VT, WI, or WV, you have a Dem senator co-sponsoring KOSA and you can call their office right now to register your opinions. https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/5/blackburn-blumenthal-introduce-bipartisan-kids-online-safety-act

“may you find the social media home you deserve” is a modern Yiddish curse

“‘The Social Network’ made me want to get into entrepreneurship”is like “‘Wall Street’ made we want to get into finance,” and overlaps heavily with thinking the point of “Scarface” and “Fight Club” is that Tony Montana and Tyler Durden are super cool guys with awesome lives you should emulate.

Hearing disturbing rumors that some of these protestors on the picket line are professional actors

this picture of Biden looking at a quantum computer is fucking hilarious lmao

this is the funniest thumbnail I’ve ever seen

eugene v debs donald trump 🤝

Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’ https://www.ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-405f-924c-09cc0dcf8c84

this is so cool

Fascinating: humans unexpectedly regained their advantage in Go because they created situations AIs never had seen in their training data https://franklantz.substack.com/p/the-afterlife-of-go?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1435607&post_id=117118804&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

this screenshot is the most concise summary of lesswrong-ai-xrisk culture that you'll ever find

parallel eyes parallelize parallel lies (this bleet sponsored by Apache Spark)

how are we feeling today fellow youths

the nanny (1993-1999) does not get ANYWHERE near enough respect compared to seinfeld/curb your enthusiasm it just hits

thread of words i like: swimmingly mellifluous filch bonkers obsidian bupkis (more to come)

new platform as protocol who dis