Yeah, they’re literally releasing criminals to make room to lock up people making social media comments
REGULATION
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LLMs Generate Covert Racism Based on Dialect Features
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Beyond excited to share that this is now out in @Nature! We show that despite efforts to remove overt racial bias, LLMs generate covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Joint work with amazing co-authors @ria_kalluri, @jurafsky, and Sharese King. Valentin Hofmann (@vjhofmann) 💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵 — https://nitter.net/vjhofmann/status/1764687418626576445#m
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TPDP Workshop: Annual Free DP Community Event and Networking
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For the DP community, we have a fun workshop every year, TPDP. This is a free-to-attend, high-acceptance rate venue where a large number of DP researchers go. Great opportunity to meet folks and learn about the latest work. Favorite event of the year. https://
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White House AI Policy Implications and Current Leadership Impact
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What change, given that she’s literally in the White House right now?
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Stanford Med Conference Speakers Downplay Pandemic Policy Failures
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@StanfordMed is hosting a pandemic policy conference in October. Many of the featured speakers would like everyone to forget that they advocated for rapidly infecting all young people and incorrectly predicted that this would end the spread in months.
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Llama 3.1 base — AI categories and topics
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Also see my previous thread demonstrating Llama 3.1 base:
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AI experts oppose SB 1047 bill call Newsom veto
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Unfortunately, SB 1047 has passed the vote despite many AI experts like @drfeifei @ylecun and myself writing detailed articles on how fundamentally flawed it is. @GavinNewsom Please read our letter signed by @Caltech personnel, alumni, and others and veto this.
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Social Apps Face Content Responsibility Test Online
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This could be a real test of social apps’ long-held defence that the content that gets shared on their platforms isn’t their responsibility but users’.
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Telegram’s EU Compliance and CEO’s Transparency Stance
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Telegram didn’t respond to a request for comment but has previously said it abides by EU laws, and that its CEO has “nothing to hide.”
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Telegram CEO Durov Charged with Enabling Criminal Activity
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French prosecutors have formally charged Telegram CEO Pavel Durov with enabling criminal activity – including disseminating child porn, drug trafficking, and fraud – on the controversial messaging platform.