Syntax that spuriously correlates with safe domains can jailbreak LLMs - e.g. below with GPT4o mini Our paper (co w/ Vinith Suriyakumar) on syntax-domain spurious correlations will appear at #NeurIPS2025 as a ✨spotlight! + @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, @byron.bsky.social, Levent Sagun

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

I'm searching for some comp/ling experts to provide a precise definition of “slop” as it refers to text (see: corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...) I put together a google form that should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete: forms.gle/oWxsCScW3dJU... If you can help, I'd appreciate your input! 🙏

Oxford Word of the Year 2024 - Oxford University Press

The Oxford Word of the Year 2024 is 'brain rot'. Discover more about the winner, our shortlist, and 20 years of words that reflect the world.

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📢 Can we trace a small distilled model back to its teacher? 🤔New work (w/ @chantalsh.bsky.social, @silvioamir.bsky.social & @byron.bsky.social) finds some footprints left by LLMs in distillation! [1/6] 🔗 Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.06659

Who Taught You That? Tracing Teachers in Model Distillation

Model distillation -- using outputs from a large teacher model to teach a small student model -- is a practical means of creating efficient models for a particular task. We ask: Can we identify a stud...

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