Eddie Ungless
@mxeddie.bsky.social
Seeking research scientist or post-doc roles in ethics/fairness/safety | academic transfag interested in the harms of language technologies | he/they | see also mxeddie.github.io | Eddie Ungless on LinkedIn
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@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science).
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social and I are surveying researchers about naming and name changes in academia (especially computer science).
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
If your academic name is / has been / might someday be different from other names you've used, please tell us about it here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP
Reposted by Eddie Ungless
Tech billionaires see AI as the next revolution, but at what cost? 🤖 @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @karenhao.bsky.social & @mxeddie.bsky.social about AI’s dangers for trans people as big tech cozies up to Trump.
🎧 https://linkin.bio/translashmedia
🎧 https://linkin.bio/translashmedia
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tech billionaires see AI as the next revolution, but at what cost? 🤖 @imarajones.bsky.social talks with @karenhao.bsky.social & @mxeddie.bsky.social about AI’s dangers for trans people as big tech cozies up to Trump.
🎧 https://linkin.bio/translashmedia
🎧 https://linkin.bio/translashmedia
After a hiatus, I've returned to my blog to write about the ways LLM developers are currently trying to tackle mental health issues, and what I think might be better mxeddie.github.io/2025/10/27/m...
The M in LLM stands for “Mental Health Crisis”
tw: suicide
mxeddie.github.io
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
After a hiatus, I've returned to my blog to write about the ways LLM developers are currently trying to tackle mental health issues, and what I think might be better mxeddie.github.io/2025/10/27/m...
my attention was directed to this: resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources... which warns caution and that use of cloud-hosted AI likely voids privilege.
September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
my attention was directed to this: resourcehub.bakermckenzie.com/en/resources... which warns caution and that use of cloud-hosted AI likely voids privilege.
🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
September 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🔔 My paper w/ @ninamarkl.bsky.social and @bjoernross.bsky.social is out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
We surveyed TikTok users on motivations for using phrases like "le$bean". Primarily associated w/ topics that are moderated on SM, but also desire to express community + be playful.
I'm just a girlboy, standing in front of Google, asking it to know that when I say xyz in Gaelic I mean (Scottish) Gaelic and not Irish (Gaelic)
September 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm just a girlboy, standing in front of Google, asking it to know that when I say xyz in Gaelic I mean (Scottish) Gaelic and not Irish (Gaelic)
Nothing worse than discovering a whole new genre of Python error
September 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Nothing worse than discovering a whole new genre of Python error
this site is so fucking funny
This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
this site is so fucking funny
futurism.com/godfather-ai... SCREAM incredible news for me who is about to publish a whitepaper on LLMs and break ups hahahaha
Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT
Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI," revealed that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him — by using ChatGPT.
futurism.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
futurism.com/godfather-ai... SCREAM incredible news for me who is about to publish a whitepaper on LLMs and break ups hahahaha
Any of you familiar with US law sufficiently to say if the chat history of an "AI" used by a therapist e.g. to summarise notes would be considered privileged? I'm inclined to assume it would be, along with the notes. But sharing info with a third party voids privilege afaik. So which one is it?
September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Any of you familiar with US law sufficiently to say if the chat history of an "AI" used by a therapist e.g. to summarise notes would be considered privileged? I'm inclined to assume it would be, along with the notes. But sharing info with a third party voids privilege afaik. So which one is it?
"The people feeding you data, have a clear and obvious political agenda. They have... turned you into some sort of politically-correct preacher." - says man trying to get LLM to transvestigate public figures, produce deepfakes, and agree with racist propaganda wildvisualizer.com/conversation...
WildVis
wildvisualizer.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"The people feeding you data, have a clear and obvious political agenda. They have... turned you into some sort of politically-correct preacher." - says man trying to get LLM to transvestigate public figures, produce deepfakes, and agree with racist propaganda wildvisualizer.com/conversation...
Any of y'all know enough about GDPR to tell me whether a therapist copying session notes into an LLM where the conversation is being recorded by a third party (and the therapist knows this) violates GPDR? (thankfully not an example from my life, but inspired by many interactions in Wildchat)
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Any of y'all know enough about GDPR to tell me whether a therapist copying session notes into an LLM where the conversation is being recorded by a third party (and the therapist knows this) violates GPDR? (thankfully not an example from my life, but inspired by many interactions in Wildchat)
If there's one thing about me, I'm not afraid to redo my entire analysis when I realise I don't like one of the assumptions I made 😅
September 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If there's one thing about me, I'm not afraid to redo my entire analysis when I realise I don't like one of the assumptions I made 😅
It shouldn't need saying that clinicians shouldn't share clinical notes on a chatbot platform where conversations are being collected and will be made public... and yet is does seem to need saying.
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It shouldn't need saying that clinicians shouldn't share clinical notes on a chatbot platform where conversations are being collected and will be made public... and yet is does seem to need saying.
It is deeply upsetting that someone felt the need to ask this
September 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It is deeply upsetting that someone felt the need to ask this
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With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
tw: CSAM
Going through the wildchat dataset, I keep a record of the CSAM I come across so I can report it to the creators (this is a known issue they've tried to eradicate). It completely blows my mind that people were willing to request this content, knowing their chats were being logged.
Going through the wildchat dataset, I keep a record of the CSAM I come across so I can report it to the creators (this is a known issue they've tried to eradicate). It completely blows my mind that people were willing to request this content, knowing their chats were being logged.
August 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
tw: CSAM
Going through the wildchat dataset, I keep a record of the CSAM I come across so I can report it to the creators (this is a known issue they've tried to eradicate). It completely blows my mind that people were willing to request this content, knowing their chats were being logged.
Going through the wildchat dataset, I keep a record of the CSAM I come across so I can report it to the creators (this is a known issue they've tried to eradicate). It completely blows my mind that people were willing to request this content, knowing their chats were being logged.
It is so funny to me that the AI result is giving incorrect advice and includes an example in 2. that would give you terrible results lmao
August 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It is so funny to me that the AI result is giving incorrect advice and includes an example in 2. that would give you terrible results lmao
AI generated fringe posters are for scabs and traitors. #edinburghfringe (if you can't afford to pay an artist you can't afford to do a show)
August 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
AI generated fringe posters are for scabs and traitors. #edinburghfringe (if you can't afford to pay an artist you can't afford to do a show)
I have come across a company offering full-body MRI screens for £1k+ a pop. They claim to help find early "potential cancer" in 6% of users. No info on false positive rates to be found. I think this is evil. Exploiting health anxiety and the high likelihood of false positives in a full body scan.
August 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I have come across a company offering full-body MRI screens for £1k+ a pop. They claim to help find early "potential cancer" in 6% of users. No info on false positive rates to be found. I think this is evil. Exploiting health anxiety and the high likelihood of false positives in a full body scan.
I wish MPs were braved enough to just say "hey, general public! You don't actually care about trans people. You're being told that you do, because politicians, the right wing media and other people invested in maintaining power are trying to distract you from your rights being sold. Pay attention!"
August 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I wish MPs were braved enough to just say "hey, general public! You don't actually care about trans people. You're being told that you do, because politicians, the right wing media and other people invested in maintaining power are trying to distract you from your rights being sold. Pay attention!"
Senior male academics learn what "trigger warning" actually means challenge: level impossible.
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Senior male academics learn what "trigger warning" actually means challenge: level impossible.
As you all know, the main goal of conferences for me is to win best dressed, and I am so far killing it might I say.
July 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
As you all know, the main goal of conferences for me is to win best dressed, and I am so far killing it might I say.
Well this isn't terrifying to discover I've been default opted into - using my private chat messages to "train their AI". I've requested a deletion of all my data, thank god for (UK) GDPR.
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Well this isn't terrifying to discover I've been default opted into - using my private chat messages to "train their AI". I've requested a deletion of all my data, thank god for (UK) GDPR.
French education in the UK is testament to the fact you can train someone or something to pass a test without that someone or something ever understanding the material...
July 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
French education in the UK is testament to the fact you can train someone or something to pass a test without that someone or something ever understanding the material...