Léo Mignot

@leomignot.bsky.social

Sociology of science and medicine | Not that kind of doctor | Research engineer @cedurkheim.bsky.social

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

Cela fait du bien de lire des papiers sérieux portant sur les limites/dangers d'utiliser des faux échantillons "en silicium" (donc IA) pour des sondages. Cela n'avait pas de sens avant l'apparition des IAgen, il n'y a pas de raison que ce soit le cas maintenant. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really

Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me · 3mo ago

It's totally unprecedented, nothing like the same marketing hype cycle Anthropic did around their model "going rogue" and "breaching containment" recently. Not like that at all

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

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Modern AIs tackle different questions than data science on industry or scientific applications. Statistical thinking, front and center in data science, is often hidden in AI. But it’s just as crucial. And too often, we treat data science or AI as merely a programming exercise

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I don't want to wade too much into this, but the chart going around from that FT birth rates article raised my "making causal claims from time series data" alarm. Compare the figure in the article with the raw TFR data from 1960 onward.

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Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anyway, I am side-eyeing this, which I feel begins in an interesting enough way and then dies by a thousand charts giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... and draws some very conservative conclusions, driven by correlation, that worry me as a feminist sociotechnical researcher

Magie des marchés publics: "En raison de dysfonctionnements récurrents et conséquents émanant du titulaire de notre marché de services d’agences de voyages, de transport et d’hébergement en France et à l’étranger – qui a notamment perdu son agrément SNCF –" (1)