Aviya Skowron
aviya.bsky.social
Aviya Skowron
@aviya.bsky.social
Head of Policy at EleutherAI. They/them. Working at the intersection of open source and AI policy. Former philosophlete.
Reposted by Aviya Skowron
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
Reposted by Aviya Skowron
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
even worse with the visual
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
trans catgirl hacker post is still up though 😎😎😎 x.com/grok/status/...
July 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It seems like it pulls account info and recent interactions (that’s how it got Sutskever and EleutherAI if you look at previous responses to the same user)
But yeah it might also steer that way anyway if you go the “just asking questions” route
July 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
(I censored the photo, it’s Joe Biden saying the n-word)
July 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
the guy (bot?) that got the Hitler response looks like this, so yeah seems tailored to the user
July 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ty for explaining the joke to the audience, I am still pondering the question, give me a few minutes
July 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
hm yes let me run “transgender catgirl hackers at EleutherAI” through our PR department
July 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
yeah you can still get it to endorse transgender catgirl hackers at EleutherAI
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“groyper free association” is one way to describe this
July 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
please no more jokes allowed
June 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Plus other observations: for example, in terms of text volume, open source code far outweighs other categories of "openly licensed" content. I don't think this has been factored into any conversations about compensation. Turns out it was about paying open source maintainers all along!
June 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
AI-generated images in menus on food delivery apps were the “please stop” moment for me
June 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Reposted by Aviya Skowron
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
(1) reuse of which artifact associated with the project? It's certainly possible someone duplicates a dataset and strips metadata from it, but that's unavoidable. Part of the work was also promoting tooling, cc @storytracer.org blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
Mozilla, EleutherAI launch toolkits to help AI builders create open datasets | The Mozilla Blog
Easy-to-follow guides on how to transcribe audio files into text using privacy friendly tools and how to convert different documents into a singular format
blog.mozilla.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM