Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction - Adora Svitak, 2025 From viral threads describing male partners’ incompetence at grocery shopping to TV shows like Fleabag, heteropessimism abounds in popular culture. Contemporary...

Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749...

Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!

(4/n) Nearly three years ago, OpenAI described ChatGPT as a "low-key research preview". Until proven otherwise, continue to treat generative AI models accordingly.

(Thank you to organizers and reviewers at the AAAI Summer Symposium Series 2025 for supporting our work!)

(3/n) This narrow focus overlooks the source of many AI harms reported to date: the models themselves. As generative AI expands in intimate consumer domains like therapy and education, we must demand access for independent researchers and public regulators to perform better real-world evaluations

(2/n) So what do companies actually measure in technical reports? As the title of our paper suggests, self-audits focus more on nefarious actors than everyday consumers ("seeing red"), and they prefer consulting language models in situations where contextual human input is vital ("teaching parrots")

(1/n) AI companies often market their products as "helpful", "honest", and "harmless". But how do they support these claims?

We found that technical reports from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic almost entirely ignore real-world contexts for discriminatory harms.

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Stop calling it “AI literacy” if it doesn’t teach history — Civics of Technology Underneath a futuristic veneer, large language models (and their makers) tell stories that perpetuate familiar stereotypes and repackage dangerous imperialist ideologies. Yet, ironically, most AI lite...

Super post from @evanshieh.bsky.social in the @civicsoftech.bsky.social newsletter this week!

Stop calling it “AI literacy” if it doesn’t teach history
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