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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown.

Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

Mother and young baby wearing a pink hat

April 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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Flu Hartberg

@fluhartberg.bsky.social

www.itromso.no/meninger/i/9...
Svarer på svar om KI-bilder

Holstads selvoppfyllende KI-profeti

iTromsø – også kjent som Mediehuset iTromsø og itromso.no – er en avis med grundig, viktig og underholdende journalistikk for tromsøfolk

www.itromso.no

April 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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Karoline Andaur

@karolineandaur.bsky.social

Myr er naturens viktigste CO2-lager. Hvis kommunene gjør alvor av alle byggeplanene, kan det føre til like store utslipp som hele Norge står for på ett år. Regjeringen må innfører en umiddelbar stans i all bygging på myr.
www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Jbyp...

Nordmenns trang til hyttekos kan utløse utslippsbombe: - Jeg er lamslått og sjokkert

Ny kartlegging viser at kommunene planlegger massiv bygging i naturens viktigste CO₂-lager.

www.aftenposten.no

April 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Forsberg™

@magnusforsberg.no

Vi har nettopp hatt vår første store KI-skandale, men det er pinlig underdekket. Jeg skriver om hvor dum den kunstige "intelligensen" egentlig er, og hvor dumt det er å både bruke og hylle den ukritisk.

Pluss litt om hvilken figur fra gresk mytologi jeg føler meg som, selvsagt.

Kunstig intelligens – ekte dumskap

Kunstig intelligens (KI) er ofte direkte dum. Og den gjør oss dummere.

www.dagsavisen.no

April 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM

Urd Vindenes

@urdv.bsky.social

Ukas språkspalte: Slop, søl, ræl eller skvip? Om KI-genererte greier vi ikke vil ha - særlig ikke i "kunnskaps"-grunnlag for politiske avgjørelser.

Språklig mikroplast

Vi oversvømmes av KI-skvip.

klassekampen.no

April 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM

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John Gallagher

@johnrgallagher.bsky.social

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.

meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

The mental tyranny of AI writing

An arduously long blog post

meresophistry.substack.com

March 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Anders Lohne Fosse

@luunske.bsky.social

Jeg har ekte nazipropaganda hengende i stuen. Et flyveblad fra Nordhordland mai 1940.

Da jeg hengte det opp i 2021 var det for å minnes en ufattelig mørk tid, da Norge var okkupert og desinformasjonen fløt fritt.

I dag får ordene på flyvebladet meg til å tenke på de som mener Ukraina bør gi opp.

March 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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Morten Morland

@mortenmorland.bsky.social

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

March 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM

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Judy Lee

@judylee.bsky.social

Credit: Nick Anderson for the Tribune Content Agency.

A political cartoon by Nick Anderson shown Zelenskyy and Trump seated atop a shaking card tower labeled "Global Stability" as Trump scolds, "You don't have the cards."

March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM

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Liv Cathrine Krogh

@cathrinekrogh.bsky.social

Nå har vi hatt språkmodeller i drøye to år. Det vil alltid finnes dem som ønsker å tilegne seg sin egen språk- og skrivekompetanse, men per nå har lærerne ansvar for at alle gjør det. Vi skal også vurdere at så har skjedd. Da må myndighetene gjøre sitt www.khrono.no/skal-vi-utst...

Skal vi utstede vitnemål til kunstig intelligens?

Det vi har sett til nå, har ikke overbevist oss om at syntetiske språkmodeller er til veldig stor hjelp i språkfagene. Vi lærer språk best ved å lære det selv.

www.khrono.no

February 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick.bsky.social

In April 2024, a few words like "delve" had a viral moment, when researchers pointed out that GPT-4 used it often, demonstrating that the spread of the word showed AI in science papers.

Did that result in a decrease in AI use in scientific writing? No, but people started avoiding the word "delve!"

February 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM

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ex-Lethality Jane

@lethalityjane.bsky.social

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Urd Vindenes

@urdv.bsky.social

Har skrevet i Khrono om hvor vanskelig det kan være (for mange) å avdekke KI-generert bullshit, aka hallusinasjoner av vag informasjon:

La studentene få konse

For dem som er i en tidlig læringsfase, kan KI skape mer forvirring og være mer tidkrevende enn det er hjelpsomt.

www.khrono.no

February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Simon Kirby

@simonkirby.bsky.social

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...