One of the more frustrating aspects of engaging in AI policy is that many things about the internet or technology in general have been suddenly thrust into the spotlight due to AI, and people instinctually rally against them without any regard for the collateral damage.

Re:Create Coalition@recreatecoalition.bsky.social · 2w ago

Journalists have used web scraping for 20+ years to expose corruption, track lobbyists, and reveal discrimination. Crawler bans like the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act risk cutting off tools newsrooms use to hold power accountable. Our infographic explains why ➡️ recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

Everyone else claims that AI is massively accelerating their research and meanwhile my ChatGPT can’t update a spreadsheet without both breaking the formatting and changing the convention I had been using for the past 100+ rows. How do I get the version that works :(

Very excited to speak with @roost.tools about our work on pretraining safety! Check out their discord server to join tomorrow at 12:30 ET! discord.com/events/12675...

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

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🎃 Boo-liet Shen 👻@julietshen.online · 2w ago

tomorrow's @roost.tools Model Community office hours will feature @stellaathena.bsky.social! Hear from her on how she and her team at @eleutherai.bsky.social, w/ UK AISI & Oxford, filtered biothreat content out of pretraining data and got open models that held up through fine-tuning attacks!

1,000 armed mercenaries are being deployed by the fascist government to “secure” the election. I have a lot of despair about the future of democracy in the US, less because it’ll be explicitly overthrown and more because we need de-Nazification-esque effort newrepublic.com/post/216331/...

USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse

Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.

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The Last Translation Benchmark is still open (10 accepted submissions in any language/dialect for coauthorship 🤩). last-translation-benchmark.vilda.net Also submit your model & try to beat LTB. We added all the latest models: North Small Translate (@cohere.com), Mistral Large 4, Qwen 3.8, congrats!

I’m starting a blog! My first post is on how 3rd party embedded evaluators seem totally unsuited to addressing the problems we are currently facing, and what the real problem is. stellabiderman.ai/blog/embedde...

Embedded Evaluators Can’t Fix Companies That Choose to Be Bad — Stella Biderman

Embedded evaluators can report violations, but they cannot fix AI companies that knowingly disregard basic cybersecurity and safety practices.

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why would you even care if you dog was autistic. like, even in a world where dogtism is real why would it matter if your dog had it. he’s literally just here to vibe.

Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2mo ago

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

have never seen an AI model come up with an amazing idea that I hadn’t already thought of for a problem I’m working on. And the typical idea quality is garbage. If this isn’t your experience I’d love to see examples! Post them or DM me.

And here I was thinking that Claude was starting to get me, lol

Sebastian Majstorovic@storytracer.com · 3mo ago

Are open OCR models good enough to unlock historical knowledge? @danielvanstrien.bsky.social and I built a leaderboard using six expert-transcribed volumes from the @biodivlibrary.bsky.social sky.social. Meet FineBooks, from @hf.co and @eleutherai.bsky.social! huggingface.co/blog/fineboo...

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

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If you have more than even a passing interest in AI, watching this talk is more important than whatever it is you are currently doing. There’s a lot of cybersec jargon at times but I don’t think you need to know anything about security to understand what’s important. youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY

Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

YouTube video by Black Hat

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Never forget that you live in a bubble and the world is full of people wanting to turn your every invention into a weapon to create dystopia. Opposing this is a fundamental ethical responsibility of any AI researcher. reason.com/2026/07/28/m...

Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.

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Got a pretty hilarious warning from Google T&S today @defcon.bsky.social @aivillage.bsky.social There’s actually nothing that should flag this, it’s just screenshots, images, and text and none of it is about phishing. My talk was about model stealing though APIs.

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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These concerns are very much not hypothetical. In 2024 a private benchmark called FrontierMath developed by a third party called Epoch came out. We later learned that OpenAI funded the creation of the benchmark and while nobody else had the test Qs, OAI did. ai-frontiers.org/articles/don...

Don’t Let AI Developers Hire Their Own Referees | AI Frontiers

Gabriel Weil, Jul 29, 2026 — Letting AI developers pick their own safety auditors creates a conflict of interest. Requiring liability insurance instead would put insurers’ own capital behind risk asse...

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Remember, only Chinese models can protect you against a cyberattack from OpenAI

cbass@stochasticbrainrot.com · 3mo ago

>be me, sam altman >announce evil version of AI for cyberwar >inadvertently attack open model site >guy I hired yells in public abt dangerous chinese AI is >hacked org can't secure themselves with US AI (isn't a member of the elect), has to turn to chinese AI >have to admit role in attack >mfw

If you believe their story, OpenAI accidentally committed cyber warfare against Hugging Face while doing what they thought was an internal test of a model without internet access. In six months time will be obvious they’re faced effectively no sanction for this.

This is a illegal. The admin cannot do this. This is also deeply immoral: Trump is killing people because he doesn’t like their governors.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...

Whenever I interact with an academic discipline outside of AI and Theoretical Computer Science, I am rapidly reminded how few problems I face for being trans in AI. Thank y’all <3

When I was in middle school (late 2000s), I was very interested in mathematics. I thought that the validity of the proof of the 4-color theorem was disputed in mathematics and was shocked when I learned about FLT, but I knew that humans would never beat an AI at chess ever again

Today I met someone at arXiv who said they were a huge fan of the Pile. I assume at some point one gets used to your idols being fans of your work, but six years in I still haven't.

An updated guide to where you can find @eleutherai.bsky.social at #ICML2025! We have a lot going on, including an oral presentation tomorrow (Tuesday) where I’m going to be talking about my scientific research agenda. Come say hi to us!

Claude code is stenographically marking location information in its prompt to help Anthropic profile users by where they (appear to) be located thereallo.dev/blog/claude-...

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.

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I’m walking back from an AI event to my hotel and I look up and see a rock climbing gym called “Benchmark.” Is this what living in SF is like?

This is a crazy good article about AI and environmental impacts: blog.andymasley.com/p/a-cheat-sh... By @andymasley.bsky.social

Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment - a cheat sheet

The numbers clearly show this is a pointless distraction for the climate movement

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Infrasound harm from data centers make it to the NYT. Unless the data center's sound is so loud that you can feel your body physically shaking like you're at a concert, I don't think this has any impact on your health at all. Been crazy to see this idea take off. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

I don't think "urgent situation" includes an event you literally had 250 years of advance notice to plan ahead for.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4mo ago

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

The ability of tech co. to produce "intelligent" systems that are incompetent at doing any of the tasks I actually want them to do is mind-boggling. TIL that ChatGPT and Claude generally don't agree when you give them two papers and ask how many citations they have in common.