Dr Eddie Ungless

Using people with disabilities as a gotcha is always gross

This reminds me of Geoffrey Hinton's ACL Keynote where he tried to argue that an unnamed person in his life with a disability "failing" a language understanding test was a sign we should accept that AI understands 🙃

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She's still running things

📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology!

Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February.

More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

Setting myself to "Away" until the 5th January, enjoy the break those who'll take it 🎄

tw: sexual violence

Another blog post on a fairly "heavy" topic, in which I discuss why I personally feel the use of algospeak (or obfuscations, as I call it in my paper on the phenomenon lnkd.in/eEd8fRan) is problematic when discussing sexual violence on social media:

lnkd.in/efhKKxU3

Do any of you still have an X account? If so would you mind spending a couple of minutes requesting your data archive (in settings & privacy / your account )... If you too end up in an endless loop I would appreciate you letting me know!

What Turning To AI Bots For Relationship Advice Is Really Doing To Our Love Lives Speak to anyone who’s single and they’ll tell you: dating in 2025

Recently I spoke to journalist Megan Wallace about my research on people using LLMs for breakup advice (whitepaper coming soon, I promise...), and you can find their article on the topic here: www.service95.com/what-turning...

I have been on ADHD medication for about a year and it still DELIGHTS and BAFFLES me that I can listen to music with lyrics whilst I work now because I can just choose (?) to focus (?) on what I'm reading (???!)

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I'm officially a Doctor. I'm very proud of the work I did on the harms of language technologies, my thesis here: lnkd.in/eh6FqZkZ

It is a privilege to graduate, when not a single university still stands in Gaza.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me, in particular @bjoernross.bsky.social.

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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.

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you're telling me... you're telling me they don't automatically rename the file... that's just cruel

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.

*turns out... linguistics 😊

🔔 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.

I've got this great new AI tool that... ;)

Lol I saw the headline and was like oh Lake would love this hahahaha

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

this site is so fucking funny

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/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?

"Till I can get my satisfaction": Open Questions in the Public Desire to Punish AI | Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Shameless self citation for my CHI extended abstract that played with this idea and might be useful for its references to other more detailed papers dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

"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)

paging @ninamarkl.bsky.social so she doesn't miss this excellent bleet

Godspeed!

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 😅