Aviya Skowron
@aviya.bsky.social
Head of Policy at EleutherAI. They/them. Working at the intersection of open source and AI policy. Former philosophlete.
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"last person to talk to him" theory of policy development is looking like an absolute lock
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"last person to talk to him" theory of policy development is looking like an absolute lock
intelltignce on surface , needs larger surface area.
epstein would've loved chatgpt so much. he wouldve gotten ai psychosis immediately and sent a million emails to sam altman. tragic he missed all this
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
intelltignce on surface , needs larger surface area.
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BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
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The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identification for web data.
commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...
commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...
Common Crawl - Blog - WMDQS Shared Task on Language Identification
The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identi...
commoncrawl.org
July 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identification for web data.
commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...
commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...
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Fair use is what enables quote-dunking. It's what lets you make fun of elected officials by quoting their own words back at them. It's what allows gifs to exist in the first place. It's what makes software interoperable. It underpins literally everything online.
July 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Fair use is what enables quote-dunking. It's what lets you make fun of elected officials by quoting their own words back at them. It's what allows gifs to exist in the first place. It's what makes software interoperable. It underpins literally everything online.
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We discovered something counterintuitive: the best way to find policy ambiguities is to create subtly distinct versions of your policy, then see where AI interprets them differently. Those mismatches reveal your problem spots. Systematic, repeatable, effective. But still manual. 🧵 4/7
July 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We discovered something counterintuitive: the best way to find policy ambiguities is to create subtly distinct versions of your policy, then see where AI interprets them differently. Those mismatches reveal your problem spots. Systematic, repeatable, effective. But still manual. 🧵 4/7
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as you can see, grok doesn't actually present any consistent belief, grok will say anything
support your local jewish transgender catgirl hackers
support your local jewish transgender catgirl hackers
yeah you can still get it to endorse transgender catgirl hackers at EleutherAI
July 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
as you can see, grok doesn't actually present any consistent belief, grok will say anything
support your local jewish transgender catgirl hackers
support your local jewish transgender catgirl hackers
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The funny thing about the Superman freakout is that Kal-El isn't "just" an undocumented immigrant. He is a refugee who fled a planet that was literally dying.
His creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were first generation Jews whose parents had fled persecution in Eastern Europe.
His creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were first generation Jews whose parents had fled persecution in Eastern Europe.
July 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The funny thing about the Superman freakout is that Kal-El isn't "just" an undocumented immigrant. He is a refugee who fled a planet that was literally dying.
His creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were first generation Jews whose parents had fled persecution in Eastern Europe.
His creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were first generation Jews whose parents had fled persecution in Eastern Europe.
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We are launching a new speaker series at EleutherAI, focused on promoting recent research by our team and community members.
Our first talk is by @catherinearnett.bsky.social on tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them.
Our first talk is by @catherinearnett.bsky.social on tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them.
June 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We are launching a new speaker series at EleutherAI, focused on promoting recent research by our team and community members.
Our first talk is by @catherinearnett.bsky.social on tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them.
Our first talk is by @catherinearnett.bsky.social on tokenizers, their limitations, and how to improve them.
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Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Remarkable.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."
Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.
Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.
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Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
June 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Kristi Noem: "We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city."
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
Sen. Alex Padilla is then forcibly removed!
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The project of open science for machine learning only works if we are able to distribute the training data. Openly licensed data lets us do that, under mild conditions. We make sure to provide document-level metadata for authorship, licensing information, links back to the originals, and more.
June 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The project of open science for machine learning only works if we are able to distribute the training data. Openly licensed data lets us do that, under mild conditions. We make sure to provide document-level metadata for authorship, licensing information, links back to the originals, and more.
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Reminder that attacking Jews around the world because of the actions of the state of Israel is definitionally antisemitic.
BREAKING: Gunman outside Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. shouted "Free Palestine" while being arrested - NBC
BREAKING: 2 people killed in shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
Israeli embassy employees are among the victims, according to Israel's ambassador, calling it an "act of anti-Semitic terrorism"
Israeli embassy employees are among the victims, according to Israel's ambassador, calling it an "act of anti-Semitic terrorism"
May 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Reminder that attacking Jews around the world because of the actions of the state of Israel is definitionally antisemitic.
About Copyright Office AI report: many things to say about it (108p!) but let's start with: memorization in machine learning studies IS NOT the same thing as a copy in IP law. It *may* be an IP-law copy, but it does not have to be, and that distinction somehow got lost in the heated discourse
Yes, but the USCO position is that the model weights are actually reproductions of any works they've accidentally memorized during training
May 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
About Copyright Office AI report: many things to say about it (108p!) but let's start with: memorization in machine learning studies IS NOT the same thing as a copy in IP law. It *may* be an IP-law copy, but it does not have to be, and that distinction somehow got lost in the heated discourse
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<puts ball on table> “Here’s a tech company. Are we mad at it?”
*screams*
<puts ball in box labeled “AI company”> “Now are we mad it it?”
*coos*
*screams*
<puts ball in box labeled “AI company”> “Now are we mad it it?”
*coos*
May 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
<puts ball on table> “Here’s a tech company. Are we mad at it?”
*screams*
<puts ball in box labeled “AI company”> “Now are we mad it it?”
*coos*
*screams*
<puts ball in box labeled “AI company”> “Now are we mad it it?”
*coos*
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Our statement on the "firing" of the Register of Copyrights and the termination of Dr Carla Hayden.
Public Knowledge Condemns President Trump’s Lawless Assault on Copyright Office, Baseless Termination of Librarian of Congress
Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. We work to shape policy.
publicknowledge.org
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our statement on the "firing" of the Register of Copyrights and the termination of Dr Carla Hayden.
extremely relatable, no one has ever seen anything like it
lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due
May 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
extremely relatable, no one has ever seen anything like it
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New Ed Martin letter—this time to Wikipedia about its tax-exempt status. In it, he asks about topics including its editorial practices, editor anonymity, "hateful content and conduct by editors," and content used to train LLMs. www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros...
Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...
Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...
![April 24, 2025
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. AKA Wikipedia
P.O. Box 98204
Washington, DC 20090-8204
VIA EMAIL: business@wikimedia.org
legal@wikimedia.org
To Whom it May Concern,
As the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, I regularly receive requests for
information, clarification, and official comment. I regard such inquiries with the seriousness they
warrant and respond appropriately through formal correspondence, such as this letter.
It has come to my attention that Wikipedia, which operates via its fiscal sponsor, the Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc., is engaging in a series of activities that could violate its obligations under
Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. As a nonprofit corporation, which is
incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Wikimedia Foundation is subject to specific legal
obligations and fiduciary duties consistent with its tax-exempt status. In addition, the public is
entitled to rely on a reasonable expectation of neutrality, transparency, and accountability in its
operations and publications.
In its 2023 IRS Form 990, the Wikimedia Foundation describes its mission as, “empower[ing]
and engag[ing] people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free
license or in the public domain and to disseminate it effectively and globally. . . [.]”
As you know, Section 501(c)(3) requires that organizations receiving tax-exempt status operate
exclusively for “religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational
purposes. . . [.]” It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation, through its wholly
owned subsidiary Wikipedia, is allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d52g57qhdyydkmwtuueco57q/bafkreihhp6g5zmurxfppfewzghbtoq53pwkxgjs4tmknvts3fz2jtxntsi@jpeg)
April 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
New Ed Martin letter—this time to Wikipedia about its tax-exempt status. In it, he asks about topics including its editorial practices, editor anonymity, "hateful content and conduct by editors," and content used to train LLMs. www.thefp.com/p/trump-pros...
Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...
Letter: drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNy...
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gonna watch White House OSTP Director Kratsios give the Trump administration’s inaugural technology policy address and live skeet it here :)
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
gonna watch White House OSTP Director Kratsios give the Trump administration’s inaugural technology policy address and live skeet it here :)
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To believe in right-wing gender politics you have to believe that gender is simultaneously something so completely innate and synonymous with biological sex that it could never possibly be otherwise, and also so tenuous and anxious that even a life of material comfort can threaten that identity.
Is it too late for me to opt out of becoming a man or
April 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
To believe in right-wing gender politics you have to believe that gender is simultaneously something so completely innate and synonymous with biological sex that it could never possibly be otherwise, and also so tenuous and anxious that even a life of material comfort can threaten that identity.
Cory Booker is on the senate floor explaining the AI Act’s Code of Practice
Cory Booker is on the senate floor trying to make sense of the first fair use factor after Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith
Cory Booker is on the Senate floor giving a lecture on the history and application of the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act
April 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Cory Booker is on the senate floor explaining the AI Act’s Code of Practice
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s trade policy. Nobody knows anything.
54/n
54/n
April 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Welcome to Donald Trump’s trade policy. Nobody knows anything.
54/n
54/n
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Are you tired of context-switching between coding models in @pytorch.org and paper writing on @overleaf.com?
Well, I’ve got the fix for you, Neuralatex! An ML library written in pure Latex!
neuralatex.com
To appear in Sigbovik (subject to rigorous review process)
Well, I’ve got the fix for you, Neuralatex! An ML library written in pure Latex!
neuralatex.com
To appear in Sigbovik (subject to rigorous review process)
Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX
Neuralatex: A machine learning library written in pure LATEX
neuralatex.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Are you tired of context-switching between coding models in @pytorch.org and paper writing on @overleaf.com?
Well, I’ve got the fix for you, Neuralatex! An ML library written in pure Latex!
neuralatex.com
To appear in Sigbovik (subject to rigorous review process)
Well, I’ve got the fix for you, Neuralatex! An ML library written in pure Latex!
neuralatex.com
To appear in Sigbovik (subject to rigorous review process)
ope-sec in the midwest
OOPSEC
March 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
ope-sec in the midwest