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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak? We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How much is an AI token worth? We fit scaling laws to find out! In August 2026, Pangram labels 31% of FineWeb-filtered web tokens as AI-generated, up from 10% in June 2024. We pretrained 800 LMs (19.9M–973M params) on mixes of human and AI web text to measure what it does to pretraining 🧵

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Tuhin Chakrabarty @tuhinchakr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🚨 New paper on AI & Copyright Using @pangram.com full-text AI detection, we study self-published genre fiction on Amazon, 2023–26. Amazon is flooded w/ books with substantial AI text. They earn real 💰 & crowd out non-AI books. w/ @dhillonp.bsky.social @xinyuel.bsky.social & Jane Ginsburg (1/n) 🧵

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

AI NEWS UPDATE We've added 200k+ recent news articles and 5k op-eds from Oct 2025 - June 2026. Local news is up to ~10.81% AI-generated.

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

AI is already at work in American newsrooms. We examine 186k articles published this summer and find that ~9% are either fully or partially AI-generated, usually without readers having any idea. Here's what we learned about how AI is influencing local and national journalism:

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Chau Minh Pham @chautmpham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🤔 What if you gave an LLM thousands of random human-written paragraphs and told it to write something new -- while copying 90% of its output from those texts? 🧟 You get what we call a Frankentext! 💡 Frankentexts are surprisingly coherent and tough for AI detectors to flag.

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

International students will stop coming to American universities if their visas are going to be at risk. This will make our intellectual community poorer and also make tuition more expensive for domestic students.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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Yixiao Song @yixiaosong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Introducing 🐻 BEARCUBS 🐻, a “small but mighty” dataset of 111 QA pairs designed to assess computer-using web agents in multimodal interactions on the live web! ✅ Humans achieve 85% accuracy ❌ OpenAI Operator: 24% ❌ Anthropic Computer Use: 14% ❌ Convergence AI Proxy: 13%

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Yekyung Kim @yekyung.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Is the needle-in-a-haystack test still meaningful given the giant green heatmaps in modern LLM papers? We create ONERULER 💍, a multilingual long-context benchmark that allows for nonexistent needles. Turns out NIAH isn't so easy after all! Our analysis across 26 languages 🧵👇

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Chau Minh Pham @chautmpham.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

⚠️Current methods for generating instruction-following data fall short for long-range reasoning tasks like narrative claim verification. We present CLIPPER ✂️, a compression-based pipeline that produces grounded instructions for ~$0.5 each, 34x cheaper than human annotations.

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯

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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If you are at #EMNLP2024 you should really check this work from our lab: github.com/Yixiao-Song/... (poster: Tue 4:00-5:30) If you aren't you should still read the paper! It's a great metric to use and build upon!

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Yapei Chang @yapeichang.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

🌊Heading to #EMNLP2024 tmr, presenting PostMark on Tue. morning! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2406.14517 Aside from this, I'd love to chat about: • long-context training • realistic & hard eval • synthetic data • tbh any cool projects people are working on Also, I'm on the lookout for a summer 2025 internship!

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Chau Minh Pham @chautmpham.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Long-form text generation with multiple stylistic and semantic constraints remains largely unexplored. We present Suri 🦙: a dataset of 20K long-form texts & LLM-generated, backtranslated instructions with complex constraints. 📎 arxiv.org/abs/2406.19371

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I will be present our paper on LMs performance on long-context reasoning task at #EMNLP2024 (Tue 16:00-17:30; riverfront hall) Come and chat with us! 🧚🦋

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