Short Reactions
5 posts. Responses to a paper, event, or claim while it is still live.
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Data labeling work should be dignified, not dismissed
Reacting to a story about Meta giving tech workers data labeling tasks.
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"People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)
Reacting to a wide-ranging set of policy ideas from OpenAI.
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Two natural allies of a "Data Transparency" agenda: capabilities forecasters and social simulators
Making an "if you like X, you might want to support Y" argument for data-focused policy
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[microblog] One book is worth "0.06%" benchmark points to AI; is "no different from noise". What gives?
Commenting on recent coverage of, and discussion about, Meta's arguments about training data value quantification.
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Perplexity CEO's Interaction with Striking New York Times Workers Does Not Reflect Well on the AI Industry
The idea that data-dependent AI systems are ready and willing to crush any leverage from knowledge workers is unlikely to make the AI industry look good to the public.