Gavin Boyce
gavinjohnboyce.bsky.social
Gavin Boyce
@gavinjohnboyce.bsky.social
Part-time pedant and penitent casuist. Currently half-way through a life sentence of DIY. Interested in intelligence, both real and artificial.
A critical bibliography about LibGen, the pirate site that Meta used for AI training eve.gd/2025/03/21/a...
A critical bibliography about LibGen, the pirate site that Meta used for AI training
Yesterday, academic social media went into overdrive as many intellectuals discovered LibGen (“Library Genesis”) for the first time, thanks to an article and tool in The Atlantic.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds
Most answers had ‘significant issues’ when researchers asked services to use broadcaster’s news articles as source
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February 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
That's my Saturday morning sorted.

Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg
Linda Geddes tests new approach developed in Italian lab that involves alternating egg between different temperatures
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February 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... so much to discuss with colleagues... but lets start with Executive Orders 14084 (Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum and Library Services) and 14110 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)......
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
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January 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“If you basically have a child narrating back stuff it heard elsewhere, you need to take that with a pinch of salt.”
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December 26, 2024 at 8:44 AM
"ChatGPT’s Poetry is Incompetent and Banal: A Discussion of (Porter and Machery, 2024)" - cs.nyu.edu/~davise/pape...
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November 20, 2024 at 7:28 AM
My very next LLM prompt: "poetry is what happens in the space between logic and chaos." discuss... www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows
Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible
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November 19, 2024 at 7:31 AM