Spending most your time writing and managing grants is no fun (and even less fun when you're still expected to do first author work like a grad student)
Even when I was in high school all the kids who got into the top state school, much less Harvard, all had basically straight A's while taking many college-level classes. Is it really surprising or bad that they get mostly A's in college when colleges select for students who are good at getting A's?
I feel like conferences are biased towards accepting papers that are like speedbumps--very robust of any sort of attack, but not very interesting, unique, or helpful for moving forward.
I don't think an NSFW AI model can ever be safe or ethical. Even if it is somehow trained on consensual data, the risk of people generating media of other people nonconsensually is too high, not to mention that this is the explicit goal of many users.
i keep finding human teeth in my bedroom
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue
www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
Our work on how gen ai is impacting the labor conditions and power of professional visual artists got a great writeup from Brian Merchant! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inf...
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍
airesistlist.org
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture.
“Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068...
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