Neha Kennard

I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean

Joe’s boss here. I pay him for a combination of research and service to the community. Peer review, of course, checks the latter box.

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

i think a clarifying question for ai harms researchers is "could this or any harm you research entail abandoning / destroying this form of technology"

and if the answer is some version of "we want to make it better" then you're not a roadblock you're a whetstone

Meta's actions are telling and appalling here, but the solution isn't better guidelines/more content moderation: it's less (read: no) fake people.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

"Our new white paper on why we're worried Grammarly is mad at us"

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Morning Pledge Thomas Kinkade loved this country. He believed in the founding fathers and their view of their fledgling republic. He absolutely knew that the United States was a beacon of hope for the world, promisi...

Interesting side note: «Morning Pledge» isn't the work of a single living artist but was produced by an anonymous corporate collective called «Thomas Kinkade Studios®,» which continues to churn out images in Kinkade's signature style long after his death in 2012. It's basically analog AI slop
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Academics don’t finish projects, we just lose the energy to keep doubting them

Because a calculator is a device made for a specific purpose, our trust in it would be immediately corrupted if it were to give an incorrect answer. It would be useless.

If you take away the specific purpose you also take away the criteria to determine if something works or not.

Trusting your own judgment in a reflexive way is hard but crucial to democratic autonomy. The externalization of judgement weakens this moral muscle

I am sitting in a public library working on a grant, and a grandmotherly woman is patiently teaching a small boy how to read at the table next to me. Another woman is knitting nearby. The children’s section is packed with kids. Things in my country are bleak, but libraries are where I find hope. ❤️

screenshot of a PDF with two "ask AI assistant" buttons and toolbars, as well as a button to summarize the PDF with AI

Trying to read a PDF and I am being prompted in three separate places to use an LLM to summarize the fucking article. Is this what they mean when they say that gen AI is inevitable

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

learn to code! learn to prompt! learn to buy into meritocracy bullshit instead of demanding dignity and a good life regardless of educational background and how wealthy you can make other people!

Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.

So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards

Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much

We can't just tell people to not watch video or scroll instagram or whatever, but if we get busy at an early age showing the deep pleasure that can be had through engagement with writing, those other things become less tempting, or if tempting, they can at least be compartmentalized.

Absolutely ghoulish that these people admit that they see kinship and community as problems that they desperately want to offload to earth-destroyer machines

"You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing LLMs have been celebrated for their potential to help multilingual scientists publish their research. Rather than interpret LLMs as a solution, we hypothesize their adoption can be an indicator of exi...

Many are lauding the potential of ChatGPT to "help" people with their writing. Looking at writing not as a deficit to be fixed, but as a site of social interaction between writers *and* evaluators, our #facct2025 paper explores how this played out in a real life situation. arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127

Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen All Drizzle, no sizzle

Alphaville x Weekend FT

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r/HistoricalCapsule u/zadraaa. 2h Join *Top 1% Poster An exhausted mother making matchboxes. Her child is asleep on the floor under the table. c.1900.

Whenever I see Trads use flourishing descriptions of traditional women's past, I think back to the actual daily life of the women who had to live through it.

There it is…

There's maybe something here, but it's also worth thinking about how "brains" are not the main reason that the US has been the base for so much research success. The infrastructure and system for financing it are a significant, and not easily replicable, factor.

He's doing more than most senators... Let his staff post relatable content, jeez!