"System prompts can provide insight into what developers intend a model to do; they do not establish what the model will do in practice. The relationship between prompt wording and model behavior is contingent and unstable" great piece! ht @mmitchell_ai techpolicy.press/making-ai-s…

"Generating a paper-shaped artifact is not equivalent to producing a well-rounded and useful scientific contribution. The ability to produce more doesn’t tell us if we’re learning more, or if the conclusions we draw are justified." @mariyaivasileva mariya.fyi/posts/stranger-in…

🚨 Yesterday US District Judge Zach Bluestone dismissed Annie Altman’s lawsuit against her brother Sam Altman after she failed to appear for an independent medical examination. The Missing Context: Mainstream coverage omits that Annie is unable to fly following recent orthopedic surgery. Instead she offered to fly out a physician of Sam’s choosing at her own expense, but Judge Bluestone rejected the request.

RT @kylietcheung: Leading the newsletter today: I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy's abhorrent smear campaign agst a child rape survivor & a bit…

No one believes weather models and protein predictors are conscious. It’s because they generate first-person narrative prose and were designed to replace customer service workers.

There's a bunch of us who have been threatened or harmed by Jackie Singh, she's an absolutely awful human being

New: someone made a CashApp account in her name. She spent 3 nights in jail and now faces up to 6 years in prison Amanda Smith was arrested because a scam led to a CashApp account in her name. But she says she didn't make it, and the data doesn't line up 404media.co/amanda-smith-ope…

Surprised to see Nate Soares in this video from @MorePerfectUS (@snmrrw). Soares is a transhumanist leader of the Rationalist cult who runs an org that's explicitly pro-ASI (as long as the ASI is "aligned" with the transhumanist vision). Why platform him? piped.video/watch?v=1bp12w_o…

IMPORTANT: I’m seeing a lot of these rape defenders going around claiming the Cornell 7 dropped to the Cornell 6 because of the man who was dismissed from the lawsuit and I want to clarify things because that is FALSE. The man who was dropped from the lawsuit was who was believed to be the fraternity president at the time of the rape. However, he was NEVER accused of participating in the rape. He was believed to be the president of the fraternity at the time so that’s why he was named along with the other members. They now determined he was not the president when the rape happened so he was dismissed. All the members were named but she was not ever accusing him of participating or named him directly responsible. Claiming otherwise is a lie and purposefully making her seem like she doesn’t know she’s talking about. Johnathan Newell, Winston Lee, Mathew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopes, and Scott Kretzschmar are all still being pursued by her legal team and accused of rape. None of them have been dismissed.

A Utah woman peacefully protesting the Utah County Planning Commission’s approval of a data center ordinance was violently slammed to the ground by a sheriff’s officer. The state is always violent whether we are peaceful or not. This is not democracy. This is a dictatorship of capital.

A man attending the Theranos trial told me and other reporters covering the case that his name was “Hanson,” and that he fixed up old cars for a living. He said he was a “concerned citizen,” and that the judge had it out for Elizabeth Holmes. I had questions, so I looked into him and found he was a San Diego hotelier who collected antique cars. His son was Billy Evans, Holmes’ romantic partner and the father of her children. npr.org/2021/09/14/103683586…

When I broke the story that imprisoned Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans were secretly forming a new startup to get back into the medical device industry, Evans fought me hard over Holmes’ involvement, saying she was on the outside of it and not an advisor. Which is why it was quite striking when, minutes into You Can See Everything, Fielder captures Holmes making calls about the new startup…. npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-539…

This is why they want you to be deluded into the idea that its product is conscious btw

New: the DHS officials who tried to search the man who wiped his GrapheneOS phone lied. They pushed him about having child abuse images. Documents reveal that was a pretext; he wasn't suspected of this at all. He's a Stop Cop City activist 404media.co/dhs-said-they-se…

Almost nobody worries that AlphaFold "might be conscious. That’s because AlphaFold predicts protein structures, whereas LLMs ‘talk’ to us. The compelling illusion of consciousness created by linguistic fluency just isn’t there for AlphaFold" @anilseth & al nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Actually cannot believe what I've read here.

Worst case AI scenario may not be all-powerful, ungovernable machines but a tiny group of all-powerful, ungovernable people. We ponder the sci-fi horror of civilization ending but should focus on the more plausible horror of a society divided into haves and have-nots, forever.

A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop. 404media.co/it-aint-right-te…

Wrote about Character.AI's bankruptcy, which appears to actually be key component of a "reverse acquihire" deal between it and Disney. Most of CAI's staff has already been hired + Disney now hopes to get its code repos sans the legal liabilities that dogged the startup

Since 2000, hospital prices have risen 295% — triple the rate of overall inflation.