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Lavender, "The Gospel", and the Scale of AI War
April 16, 2024
By Alex Earlier this month, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and +972mag published a harrowing report about a system called Lavender, a technology which the...
More collegiate FOMO
April 11, 2024
AI Hype is Warping How Universities See Themselves By Emily It seems to be the season of universities announcing their AI initiatives, and it seems like...
Doing their hype for them
April 2, 2024
Defeatist, second-hand hype goes to college By Emily I find that one of the most frustrating kinds of AI hype is when people who are actually in a position...
Facial recognition in Gaza; Guest Cohost Timnit Gebru Joins Us!
March 29, 2024
A Fresh AI Hell Roundup: March 29, 2024 Edition By Alex Senator Scott Wiener has sponsored a "frontier model" bill in the California State Senate, which...
I'm Obsessed with the Glasgow Willy Wonka Scam
March 26, 2024
I'm Obsessed with the Glasgow Willy Wonka Scam What a chocolate-y experience indeed. AI-generated image from the House of Illuminati. Photo from Stuart...
African AI data workers are being locked out.
March 21, 2024
A Fresh AI Hell Roundup: March 21, 2024 Edition By Alex Data workers in Africa are being locked out of their accounts. Journalist Karen Hao reported on...
US DHS attempts to use "AI"
March 18, 2024
Three more uses cases where synthetic text is not appropriate, now paid for with tax dollars By Emily The DHS announced today that they are going to "test...
"AI safety" is AI hype
March 15, 2024
"AI safety" is just more AI hype—and our policymakers are dangerously distracted by it By Emily In early March, SV Angel put out a statement in the form of...
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects
March 14, 2024
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects In this episode, we put on our social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggesting that LLMs...
Hello World!
March 13, 2024
Hello world! We here at Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 have found that sometimes, between episodes, we want to get something of our chests. Sometimes, we post...
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