Will Oremus

too bad ohio doesn’t remember him

help, there's a baseball world series going on and i don't actively hate either team. who am i supposed to root against here??

Bluesky's "suggested for you" tool is a great example of my favorite type of AI recommender algorithm: hilariously incompetent and delightfully inscrutable

i'm not going to read this article but i really admire the craft

Chatbots are adding a new layer of chaos ahead of the midterms, putting voters at risk of being misguided by AI, @willoremus.com reports.

what kills me about AI is that the people making it always talk about these high-minded uses that would supposedly benefit the world, but in the real world it's always used for the most manipulative and disgusting slop you can possibly imagine futurism.com/artificial-i...

i’m not one to care about celebrity product endorsements but this one was surprisingly meaningful to my bball-loving, lactose-intolerant 11yo. he had never really considered that there could be a real upside to his inability to enjoy ice cream, mac and cheese, pizza and other stuff his friends love

“Revealed preferences” is a useful concept in some settings but it gets used to justify exploitive practices that people are forced to put up with because they lack good alternatives

extremely funny that this viral post arguing that AI is actually really interpretable might be the least interpretable thing i’ve attempted to read in years already-clean.goodfire.com

seeing how many clicks a story is getting in real time can be useful at the level of the individual story. but on aggregate, everyone making their headlines ~clickier~ probably doesn't mean more people reading the news. it just raises the bar for how sensational a headline has to be to get noticed.

a common response to ”you should probably learn how ai works before making incorrect claims about it. you could use it, or talk to people who do” is “oh, so i should have to do heroin to talk about how it’s dangerous?” and well. drug users do have unique insights about what drug use is like actually

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

“It seems that arts communities’ revulsion toward AI has fostered a self-defeating underinvestment in understanding how exactly it functions, and how those who are repelled by AI companies’ presence in cultural spheres might beat back its encroachment.”

Full house here in Philly for Cavan Sullivan’s return home after his national team debut.

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

a bit undersized but she can't be any worse than jurgens. let's plug her in at left guard

[mournfully] they got his ass

Lane Johnson does not seem to be a perfect dude by any means. But then, none of us is. Retiring midseason because his family and mental health are more important than football should only cement his legacy. If more male pro athletes were this open about mental health, they'd be better role models.

this feels like a headline you'd wake up to if you were living in a @greatdismal.bsky.social novel

This kid just turned 17

Do as AI say, not as I do

This is a fairly damning assessment from a man who led the writing of OpenAI's safety reports: "As the company sprints from one launch to the next, it is failing to achieve the level of care that I believe is needed." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“you’re not an ai influencer” is both an extremely funny attempted putdown for a pope and also just factually incorrect

As a fan of both you & Emily, I'll just point out something maybe obvious: Searching web, extraction, etc., isn't an LLM. That's engineered code/functions used alongside an LLM; the distinction between an "AI system" and an LLM (I wrote a thing about this here: medium.com/@margarmitch...) 1/