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Professor, mathematical psychologist, guitarist and singer
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Nature
about 22 hours ago
This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real.
go.nature.com/4mDXXka
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Nature - Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://go.nature.com/4mDXXka
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Clare Kelly
about 22 hours ago
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social
with all the right words, in the right order: "language is ultimately how we build community with one another. A world of LLM communication is a colder, blander one devoid of incidental human empathy and original thought."
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I'm almost there ...
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Dr. Jens Foell
4 days ago
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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PACES Vancouver
2 days ago
More and more organizations are coming out against AI in schools.
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He was ever the optimist. Time will tell if he was a prophet
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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱
3 days ago
HISTORICAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: These people have been dispossessed of the fruits of their own labor for centuries. They were denied the opportunity to build generational wealth and influence. We will strive to correct this. MAGA AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Give me money because I like to say the N-word
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Bill
3 days ago
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
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Jeremy Berg
4 days ago
To adapt the FDA language... "This encounter has not been evaluated by anyone. This PR stunt is not intended to depict, simulate, mimic, or reproduce any actual delivery.”
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Frank Pasquale
4 days ago
“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
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Futurism
4 days ago
Looks like AI is not the magical tool that CEOs make it out to be.
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AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock
Office workers find that they are being flooded by AI generated workslop that's paradoxically making them less productive.
https://trib.al/Ahz7r6r
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More Perfect Union
4 days ago
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS. The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.
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Tyler King
4 days ago
So my husband is doing interviews to hire a new HR person and already it’s become VERY obvious which candidates are using chatbots to conduct their interviews. It’s…not going well for them.
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The kids are alright
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Robert Reich
4 days ago
The bottom 95% of taxpayers will see tax INCREASES on average this year, driven primarily by expanded tariffs and expiration of health insurance credits. Meanwhile, the richest 1% alone will receive $117 billion in tax CUTS in 2026. Never forget who Trump governs for.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
18 days ago
Guardrails are a scam! “We have also continued to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses in sensitive moments, working closely with mental health clinicians.” It's impossible cos that's full blown cognition: either the lie is the automation (instead indentured labour is used) or they're fully fibbing. 1/
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Ketan Joshi
4 months ago
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them
archive.ph/r0u2r
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
4 days ago
You cannot stop this with guardrails, it just has to be shut down. Anything else is lying.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)
6 days ago
I've been quietly removing tech from my school library since I took over 6 years ago. I thought people would be annoyed, but it's been great. Adults have barely noticed, and the students have responded well.
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Rine Vieth
7 days ago
A couple weeks ago, Nicholas Keung at the Toronto Star reported on how generative AI is being used to assess immigration applications in Canada...and how it's led to refusals because of stuff the AI tool added in, that humans (clearly) failed to check.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Pookleblinky
7 days ago
GenAI dipshits are still at that stage of the scam where they keep insisting how useful it is as an accessibility aid (the next stage is insisting it helps the global south), and no it fucking isn't. GenAI actively *destroys* accessibility tools like captions and alt text.
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UVA School of Data Science
8 days ago
Join us for a discussion of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want." Register today:
bit.ly/4sYGeWU
Featuring
@emilymbender.bsky.social
+
@alexhanna.bsky.social
and hosted by
@histoftech.bsky.social
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Robert Reich
9 days ago
Blood on our hands.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How the U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Have Damaged Schools and Hospitals
The Times has verified U.S.-Israeli strikes on at least 39 schools and hospitals, a fraction of the devastation so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/us-israel-strikes-iran-structures-damage.html
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Effin' Birds
9 days ago
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Amos Posner
9 days ago
There is no McTry.
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Matthew Perren
9 days ago
I wouldn’t say I’m a luddite, but, even working in IT, I struggle to find a use-case in which AI performs adequately. And, remember kids, it’s a *terrible* search engine
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Mark Dingemanse
9 days ago
why do I find it so wildly offensive and paternalistic when I see folks suggest that LLM use can help 'disadvantaged' people to 'write better' or 'save time'? because it is such a sad underestimation of people's abilities, a surrender to a thoughtless monoglot ideology, a celebration of ignorance
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Iris van Rooij 💭
10 days ago
I believe the frame that minoritized scholars are helped by unethical tech is a trap to avoid. We better fight the system of inequities ourselves & not buy into industry frames trying to sell their discriminatory, polluting, and exploitative tech as "inclusion".
bsky.app/profile/iris...
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Sara Shay (aka Sheila the Wonderbink)
9 days ago
I know AI psychosis isn't an official DSM diagnosis (yet), but from what we've seen so far, this man is getting way high on his own supply.
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Iris van Rooij 💭
10 days ago
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
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Refusal to Review
I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/refusal-to-review/
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Rachit Dubey
12 days ago
🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/
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Ketan Joshi
11 days ago
Once again: this is exactly what LLMs and chatbots are designed for. This is them doing their designed function. Mass production of meaningless text so someone who wants to do harm has cheap access to the aesthetics of justification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Simon Marks
11 days ago
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Matt Novak
12 days ago
The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild. "Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"
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Maxwell Frost
12 days ago
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
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Robin Z
12 days ago
No matter how you feel about cocaine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms.
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Nick Sousanis
12 days ago
hear hear!
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James Andrew Smith
15 days ago
Microsoft CoPilot isn't meant for real work. Even Microsoft says so. Any university that pushes it as an analysis tool needs to wake up.
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🏴☠️ Maddox 🏴☠️
15 days ago
That's totally disrespectful. Imagine you worked hard your entire life to create a company that manufactures trash cans only to have someone throw Pam Bondi's face in it.
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Association for Psychological Science
16 days ago
Two summer schools focused on skills for cognitive modeling and mathematical psychology will each receive $20,000 grants through this year’s William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund.
@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
Learn more about these projects by
@peterkvam.bsky.social
& Eric-Jan Wagenmakers.
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2026 Estes Fund Unlocks New Skills With Mathematical Workshops
Two summer schools focused on skills for cognitive modeling and mathematical psychology will each receive $20,000 grants through this year’s Estes Fund.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-mar-estes-fund.html
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Marisa Kabas
16 days ago
When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...
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Berna Devezer
15 days ago
I seriously think this is one of the biggest disconnects. LLMs constantly and confidently produce misinformation, and it requires enormous amounts of vigilance to work with them under high standards of rigor. If people don't care about facts or rigor, of course they'll think this is miracle tech.
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Miriam Posner
16 days ago
Wait wait wait, *this* Stephen Marche?
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Amy Klobuchar
16 days ago
This Administration is spending billions on a war with no strategy instead of lowering people’s health care and child care costs.
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Scoiattolo
17 days ago
I regret to inform you that CNN now has the article claiming that datacenters put out more heat energy than a nuclear bomb.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
17 days ago
hahaha — and I cannot stress this enough: LMAO
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Marieke van Vugt
17 days ago
"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
17 days ago
guardrails are a scam
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