Reposted by wendy norrisasura @asura.dev · 56myeah, this is correct Google does great with open weights releases and post training workflows and then stopped. Anthropic can't release weights. This is why it's so important to give users psychosis around believing "you need a 2T model for everything" - most of these frontiers aren't 2T 121
Reposted by wendy norrisTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 4hThis is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 2977422074
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 5hCongrats Semafor. Your blatant attempt at rage bait is a ridiculous new entry in my Data Vis Hall of Shame. Thanks to Kieran for the excellent explainer. 240
Reposted by wendy norrisRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17hBravo “New information has raised serious questions about how this case was handled, and I’ve lost faith in the Tompkins County D.A.’s ability to fairly oversee it.” - Governor Hochul in appointing A.G. Letitia James to serve as special prosecutor in Cornell casenytimes.comHochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell CaseGov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state attorney general to investigate a former Cornell University student’s allegation of rape. The woman has sued seven men in connection with the alleged assault. 15585124
Reposted by wendy norrisCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14037291225
Reposted by wendy norrisShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you need to explain to someone why the ‘Rogue AI’ framing is both wrong and harmful, actually blocking our view of what safety and responsibility requires in AI, this will help:noemamag.comThe AIs Are Not Going Rogue | NOEMABut they still pose risks. 59643
Reposted by wendy norrisZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific. 1543048
Reposted by wendy norrisjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 30/09/2026it seems pretty obvious to me that the “alignment” issue of agentic LLMs is much like the “hallucination” problem: these are fundamental limitations of the technology that cannot be repaired, only worked around. the technology is, therefore, defective and not fit for purpose 514518
Reposted by wendy norrisShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun 714861
Reposted by wendy norrisThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411303342
Reposted by wendy norrisAlexander Schmidt-Lebuhn @anschmidtlebuhn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is really underappreciated to what degree the rogue agents discourse is about prefabricating an excuse for releasing predictably unreliable and unsafe products. We don't need "AI alignment", we need enforcement of consumer protection and felony hacking laws. 04513
Reposted by wendy norrisHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”hntrbrk.comDox for Me, O MuseMuse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users. 615774
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wow! OpenAI is at it again. Introducing Recursive Self-Regulation† . . . . †C'mon, folks. It's yet another marketing ploy. Look what good corporate citizens we are. Barf. 050
Reposted by wendy norrisHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026“Alongside valid privacy concerns, there is a persistent inequity in how facial recognition is deployed: it’s disproportionately used to manage vulnerable populations like migrants and refugees.”macleans.caFacial Recognition Technology Is Scarier Than You Think - Macleans.caIt now functions as a gatekeeper to housing, employment and education 16129
Reposted by wendy norrisDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895440937
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do not under any circumstances let the nerds at Microsoft convince you that Copilot is the "safe" generative AI app. This crap is embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. And PK-12 schools and universities' Microsoft360 accounts means your kids have access to it too. 031
Reposted by wendy norrisDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Shot: "We asked 37 top academics and researchers who study education to rate a range of ideas for both effectiveness and cost, on a scale of 1 to 7." Chaser: "The panel included: Dominique Baker..." LOL y'all I read so many papers to complete this survey on k12 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...nytimes.com30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by ExpertsMath and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around? 825751
Reposted by wendy norrisPavel Gurov · Gurov Digital @gurovdigital.com · 26/09/2026On German election day, I asked 6 popular AI chatbots 10 political questions, in 500+ runs. Perplexity cited Russia Today in 20% of answers, although RT is blocked in Germany. Meta AI and Copilot cited RT-linked sites. Study and data: gurovdigital.com/newsletter/election-day-ai-poisoning-germany 011
Reposted by wendy norristhe garbage store boy @screaming.party · 27/09/2026my AI evangelist friend (who does not work in tech) is confused by how many in tech are mourning their jobs right now. "But they just get to make stuff all day now! They don't have to do the hard part anymore." Motherfucker, the hard part is what they loved. These people like to solve problems 362
Reposted by wendy norrisDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i... 14637192
Reposted by wendy norrisve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026I think software engineering has been in a crisis since at least when Facebook facilitated a genocide and there wasn’t any meaningful change to the formalized ethical practices of the industry as a whole 38318
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Meanwhile, while we're all simultaneously horrified by Faine's must-read threads on abuse permission structures within the "AI Safety" world/sportsball scores/fascist capture of democracy/etc., Jonny's still cookin' on the surveillance capitalism disaster that is Meta Muse. 131
Reposted by wendy norris😶 stuart reeves 😶 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 27/09/2026one reason I dislike researchers using the concept "human-in-the-loop" is that it is actually impossible (and analytically foolhardy) to disentangle people, their interlocking lifeworlds, and the vast set of technical and other fabrics that compose them (h/t to @wendynorris.bsky.social) 052
Reposted by wendy norrisMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I’m publishing something tomorrow about Alpha School. One of the things I focus on is how it is an incubator for EdTech platforms with the ambition to hyperscale. Alpha may only have a few hundred students nationwide, but its founders are developing MANY extractive EdTech brands. This is one: 13924964
Reposted by wendy norrisPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034197
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Kinda the textbook definition of recursive self-improvement, no? AI helping AI to AI. 120
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If tech wants to claim model/agent sentience, then ALL industry research should be reviewed by an independent IRB, not an in-house process. Hell, pay universities to conduct rigorous reviews since y'all seem to think you're working with an "entity" that should be subject to Belmont/Menlo principles. 010
Reposted by wendy norrisNick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A systematic, critical understanding of history, especially the long history of technically skilled people either being used by elites or being blinded by their own high modernist ideology to do incredible harm, should in my opinion be a requirement of any technocratic profession 918149
Reposted by wendy norrisKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/09/2026This is a big one. When companies are forced to bear the actual cost of all these tokens, they're cooked. Companies are already paying out the ass for tokens. While they are cheaper than the people they fired, that will only last as long as rich people are subsidizing it. And clock is ticking 416431
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Louder for those in the back: Do NOT fall for the AI three-card monte trick. Pick your ONE outrage (data centers, law-breaking hacks, hype, learning loss, military targeting, environmental harm, job loss, economic risk, etc.) and fight back. Do not let AI techbros set the agenda for your future. 172
Reposted by wendy norrisJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The journalist covering this preprint is on a fellowship funded by coefficient giving and Longview philanthropy, among others. The lead author of the study Valen Tagliablue is listed as a Digitial Sentience Consortium and Oxford FIG. Who funds those? 32015
Reposted by wendy norrisGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 26/09/2026This nonsense has become a fucking cult. Collective AI psychosis intertwined with shameless grift. Two of the authors operate out of AI thinktanks opaquely funded by philanthropic donations (i.e. tech-bros), they used chatbots to help write it, & the paper hasn‘t been peer reviewed. Garbage. 66723
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is an absolute must read story. While talking to students in a data science course, I learned that betting and prediction market platforms are consuming young men. It was terrifying to hear how much money, attention, and decision-making skills they are losing to "house" algorithms and alerts. 020
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am howling. What a cluster. Someone give me a gazillion dollars. I promise I will spend it better than this. 021
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026More Meta Muse merry-making: Meta claims that Muse is operating as expected. Is this the Oprah-equivalent of everybody gets a virtual machine? LOLneuromatch.socialjonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)Attached: 1 image meta is deploying and re-deploying the VM, idk maybe to try and patch some bugs, who knows, and that brought down the tailscale shell. but thankfully, "hey can you establish persist... 010
Reposted by wendy norrisNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do. 421664465
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Holy cow! Click the link to read Jonny discovering "I am Root" is the funniest damn thing I have read in ages. LOL Meta's new Tamagotchi is a trainwreck. 150
Reposted by wendy norrisJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway. 6794183
Reposted by wendy norrisDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New from Lauren Supplee at Can We Still Govern? The US government had gradually become better at producing and using evidence. This evidence-based infrastructure is largely invisible, important, and one more thing gutted by Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...donmoynihan.substack.comThe System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been GuttedHere’s How We Fix It 3468181
Reposted by wendy norrisali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 21/09/2026i read a lot more about the FAA thing than i wanted to and i'm not sure they're doing any machine learning with this AI air traffic control thing. like forget about generative AI, transformers, neural nets, etc... the one-pager could be a (somewhat) fluffed up description of basic inferential stats. 3162
Reposted by wendy norrisPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.productpicnic.beehiiv.comAssigning agency to AI means surrendering your ownClaude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product. 825385
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An absolute must watch with the brilliant Lina Khan.youtu.beLina Khan on the AI-Safety PanicYouTube video by The Atlantic 031
Reposted by wendy norrisHilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026(from fintechdystopia.com/chapters/int...) 35915
wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Foucault, somewhere out in the universe, is cackling 060
Reposted by wendy norrisWIRED @wired.com · 20/09/2026The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. www.wired.com/story/metas-...wired.comMeta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping MeThe Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. 12154101
Reposted by wendy norrisDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026i'm tired of seeing “escalating ai capabilities” reported as if it is a fact. let's be clear this claim does not rest on transparent, well-defined, independently validated metrics, but is inferred from model behaviours elicited by humans and measured through opaque, poorly designed evaluations 213450