“Not much in social science makes sense except in light of power struggle … Brandeis was very much about this, but the consumer welfare standard ignored it.”

In conversation with Lina Khan, Daron Acemoglu says you can't understand the economy without accounting for power.👇🧵

After reading 700+ papers that use Reddit data, we qualitatively analyzed the < 150 that had ANY engagement with research ethics. The result is a set of recommendations for ethical considerations in researching Reddit (and other public internet content). cfiesler.medium.com/how-to-remembe…

How to build guardrails:
From Anjana Susarla: 'Legal scholars have dubbed the challenge in developing guardrails against copyright infringement into AI tools the 'Snoopy problem.''
Snoopy is a highly copyrighted character.
This amplifies AI's likelihood to copy it.
So, what do we do?…

When AI prompts result in copyright violations, who has to pay? 👀 🧵

'Builders of generative AI tools have argued that prompts do not reproduce the training data, which should protect them from claims of copyright violation.

Audit studies such as the one conducted by computer…

“Chuck Schumer has promised major action on what could be the most important issue of our lives.

He needs to go big. Here’s how,” writes noted national AI expert Gary Marcus ⬇️ politico.com/news/magazine/…

“Peter Higgs’ work helped shape our fundamental understanding of the world around us.' Sir Adrian Smith PRS pays tribute to Professor Peter Higgs FRS, who has passed away at the age of 94: royalsociety.org/news/2024/04/p…

I had a day like today in mind when I wrote the this article.

North America awed by total solar eclipse bbc.in/3xvn7Mr

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train A.I. Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, Nico Grant and I undercover the race for data: nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

Lovely review ... wonder if the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen would also be deemed 'Provincials' by Sumana Roy?

Seems like everyone wants to know more about how large language models work, but existing explainers often:
-Are too shallow or too technical
-Focus on how LLMs predict the next word, which is only part of the story

So we wrote 3 explainers of our own! 🧵
cset.georgetown.edu/article/the-su…

The thread below:
- summarizes a magazine feature that probably took months to report
- screenshots huge swaths of the text
- never even links to it

Our dominant information platforms not only tolerate this kind of theft, they incentivize it. No wonder the media are struggling.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan tells me exclusively — if OpenAI is using YouTube videos to train Sora, that would be a “clear violation” of their policies (with Davey Alba)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Google Books is full of AI-generated garbage. This is bad for a variety of reasons. One of them is that Google Books ultimately feeds into NGram Viewer, which is a tool academics use to do research on human culture and language

404media.co/google-books-i…

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals.

All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses 'they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Here's a paper you can read about it. arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547

It introduced a formal definition of intelligence, as well as benchmark to capture that definition in practical terms. Although it was developed before the rise of LLMs, current state-of-the-art LLMs such as Gemini…

Lol epic intro

Generative #AI tools may help users to create content that violates #copyright , a difficulty for holders and users that has no clear solutions at present, explains Anjana Susarla

theconversation.com/generative-ai-…

LLMs perform poorly on MacGyver-inspired test of unconventional physical reasoning.

Copyright Alert:

In Hachette v Internet Archive, Jacqueline Charlesworth, former GC & Associate Register of Copyrights, filed an amicus brief on behalf of a group of professors/copyright scholars. The first sentence of the summary is 🔥. Game Over…a history lesson in #FairUse .