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Google AI Overviews failures reveal disruption of information relationships
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We've all been laughing at the obvious fails from Google's AI Overviews feature, but there's a serious lesson in there too about how it disrupts the relational nature of information. More in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:
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Open Access Publishing: Balancing arXiv Visibility with Peer Review
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And if you have to do one more click to get to the open arXiv version, that hardly seems like a hardship. OTOH, people often just miss the peer reviewed version because they get sent directly to arXiv.
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Design choices for peer-reviewed research accessibility and transparency
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There are many many design choices that could help readers differentiate between peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed work while also pointing to accessible options when the peer reviewed version is paywalled.
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ArXiv Citations Prioritized Over Peer-Reviewed Publications in AI Research
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AND they point to arXiv first even if the paper has been published in a peer-reviewed venue.
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AI Bullshit: Shit-talking as critical praxis in AI discourse
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AH: (singing) Slogging through bullshit, we’ll never relax as shit talking AI is ridicule as praxis. /end alt text
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Biometric Data Concentration Risks and Privacy Concerns
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EB: You don’t want to be doing biometrics all the time, but you also don’t want it, like, all in one place. Like, Clear should not have everyone’s travel data and everyone’s health data. No, thank you. All right, next. >>
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StackOverflow’s OpenAI partnership undermines principles of resistance
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I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.
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Does AI-Driven Productivity Actually Improve World Understanding?
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So I think we do want to question this–whether more productivity, whether that is assisted by AI or not, is something that actually does help us understand the world better. /end alt text
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Scientific Citation Bias Limits AI Innovation and Research
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And scientists who are faced with the deluge of literature just tend to cite canon and narrow the scope of their investigation, sort of fixating on the widely accepted principles as opposed to innovating. >>