Research: Disconnection, tech refusal & beautiful, broken media. Sometime coder & dusty journo. Now Aotearoa NZ, always Chicago, formerly Stanford, SF, Phnom Penh, Fukui. Silence when I can. Music when I can't. Tangata Tiriti, Jew, he/him.
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intended to get the most basic alarm clock but this joystick adjusts +/- so I really had no choice
It's been evident for a while that 95bFM would not continue to have a physical home at the University of Auckland. This morning, after a lot of work, they announced that the station will be moving to a new home on K Road. It's the right place. 95bfm.com/news/were-mo...
breaking new frontiers in the english language, in a faculty meeting on every academic's favourite topic (how to do expense reports properly) I just heard a person use the word "workflow" as a verb
“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪
arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723
I’m the poster child for youth journalism, but does it have a future?
New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓
I am *delighted* to have a new article in @spectrum.ieee.org - this one is all about Assoc Prof Te Taka Keegan's work. He's developing sovereign AI to aid in the protection and revitalisation of specific dialects of Te reo Māori
spectrum.ieee.org/indigenous-a...
Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain p...
proposed NZ law allows Ministry of Social Development "use of an automated electronic system…to make any decision, exercise any power, comply with any obligation, or take any other related action under any specified provision, with appropriate safeguards."
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Several projects around the world are working to develop indigenous-owned AI models
