Weak Baselines and Bad Management

The pressure is high in the AI world right now and baselines are wobbling.

Forcing You to Listen: The Supreme Court vs. Content Moderation

It’s about forcing speech on you, and forcing platforms to host speech they otherwise wouldn’t want to.

Computer Art Got Worse in the Age of Machine Learning: Notes from an AI Art Fair

The best thing at the inaugural Paris deeep AI Art Fair was generative art from 55 years ago.

The Fate of Social Networks in the AI Era

MoP #7: Social Contracts, and a Common Misunderstanding About LLMs

One of the clauses of the modern social contract is that adults should follow the news. This may sound onerous, but the bar is quite low. We’re talking about being aware of the big stories, maybe engaging with a bit of analysis from different perspectives, perhaps even spending a

Surviving the Spiral: The Internet's Collective Future

From AI appropriation to browsers that evade monetization, the foundations of the Internet teeter

Introducing MoPE: An Evaluation Dataset for Professional Editing

Evaluating whether out-of-the-box LLM technology can assist with copy editing at a professional level.

The Mop-Up #3: MoP Fixes the News Business

"I don’t know, but I am not ready to leave our democracy in the hands of citizen journalists on TikTok."

MoP #6: The Murky and Evolving Ethics of AI

On Substack and Abandoning Our Collective Morality

"It’s about believing your own hype, which, untreated, can lead to acute ego-monster syndrome."

What happens if The New York Times wins their case against OpenAI?

Low-risk models and the challenges of "extreme domain generalization".

Is AI Art Actually Art?

"His supporters criticized Anadol’s work, calling it a 'glorified lava lamp' and a 'half-million-dollar screensaver'"