OpenAI tells ChatGPT to stop impersonating famous authors f-st.co/i4mbGdb

OpenAI tells ChatGPT to stop impersonating famous authors

The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure.

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No, no and no. These weren't "rogue AIs" -- what happened here is that OpenAI kicked off a software process and let it run. OpenAI was always in control and could have stopped the process (or actually paid attention to what it was doing) at any time. >>

Bosses *hate* the fact that they can't turn their plans into action without first having a series of ego-shattering confrontations with workers who actually know how to do things, who insist that those plans are illegal, stupid, impossible or will kill people: pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n... 27/

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If you like this sort of storytelling with data (some beautiful examples here!) please consider applying for the PhD fellowship in narrative data visualisation we're hiring for! Job ad here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and examples of narrative datavis here pudding.cool/process/how-...

Making Internet Things, Part 3: Storytelling

This is the third installment of a multi-part series designed to help you familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.

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Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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In research, to claim that generative AI somehow means commercial chatbots (I guess?), mangles those words to the point where they don't mean anything anymore (in research). "Generative" means something very specific. "AI" less so, and is contested, but it's definitely != "chatbot" (in research).

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Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

critical slop studies@struthious.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

A reminder that the statistical majority of the text you encounter now on the Internet is not actually meant for you as a human being reading, even if it happens to resemble legible prose. #Textpocalypse

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"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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There's a genre of LLM criticism that I find so destructively unhelpful: using a single vague prompt to "analyze" data, e.g. "summarize the themes across this collection of texts," to claim "see! LLMs don't work." & it's getting published! Reviewers this is not good work pls reject it if you see it.

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Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher in trustworthy AI across linguistic and cultural diversities

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ding ding ding I also think it’s relevant that this is in particular a coding tool, and there was likely an effort to give it a masculine name as a result🫠

Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

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Postdoctoral Fellow on European AI in Creative and Cultural Industries (300209) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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🚨Job alert🚨 Another postdoc opportunity up in Umeå as part of a WASP-HS research cluster I'm affiliated with, "AI Futures of Culture and Memory" -- another great AI/DH research environment! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Postdoctoral fellow in Digital Humanities

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