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Yngvildr The Voracious
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They/He/ Il/Lui Blue Haired Snowflake Trashcan full of gender and pronouns with way too much ADHD to mind their own business.
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gautoz.cool
INFO Origami - Midgar Studio a été placé en liquidation hier par l'administrateur en charge du redressement judiciaire du groupe Nacon. La société montpelliéraine fermera sous peu.

Leur prochain jeu Edge of Memories (en dev depuis cinq ans et prévu pour fin 2026) n'est plus entre leurs mains.
Illustration principale d'Edge of Memories Logo de Nacon Logo de Midgar Studio
July 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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dominictarason.com
PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it.

Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts.

Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.
May 31, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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devonwiersma.bsky.social
Was watching the new James Bond game and paying particular attention to how most of the more tertiary supporting cast is a POC except for, weirdly, Bond and his close circle of friends
May 31, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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ambroisegarel.com
Comme dans la plupart des civilisations issues des religions du Livre, leur cosmologie reposait sur une division binaire entre le pur, qui devait être placé dans la poubelle jaune, et l'impur, qui était promis à la poubelle noire.
May 31, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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mediapart.fr
L’intelligence artificielle est désormais utilisée en sociologie. Cette technologie ne représente-t-elle qu’un simple « outil » pratique ?

🖊 Billet de blog de Fabrice Colomb, Gaëtan Flocco, Mélanie Guyonvarch, enseignants-chercheurs en sociologie à l'Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay
Ce que l’IA fait à la sociologie
L’intelligence artificielle est désormais utilisée en sociologie. Cette technologie ne représente-t-elle qu’un simple « outil » pratique ? L’IA est d’abord une technologie au service de la performance académique. Face à ce déferlement technologique, l’université et la recherche doivent donner aux étudiant·es les moyens de penser de manière critique, s’érigeant en espaces de réflexion et de résistance.
l.mediapart.fr
May 31, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
Surtout qu’on a vu ce que ça a donné son passage au ministère de l’éducation. C’est encore plus facile de lui rouler dessus sur ce thème là que sur les autres.
May 31, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
Alors ok Attal est ridicule et a peu près aussi innovant qu’une fourchette à cinq dents.

Mais… (il vous inquiète ce « mais » hein?)

Mais il parle de l’école. Il cherche à s’approprier ce thème en politique. Et ça pourrait lui servir.

S’il vous plait, la gauche, réagissez, ne le laissez pas faire
May 31, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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gringene.org
LLMs are literally bullshit, a reckless disregard for the truth:

".... bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care whether what they say is true or false."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bull...
On Bullshit - Wikipedia
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May 30, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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eriknordman.bsky.social
💯 agree. I like this framing.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
link.springer.com
May 30, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to."

open access link: archive.ph/qt59c

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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
May 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
May 17, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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matcha-crow.bsky.social
Looking through the account is absolute insanity. Having to click every time just to view simple text or clicking twice to get to images that are not even NSFW and not knowing what will encounter at all, when they already had a way to tag NSFW that was more logical and functional.
May 31, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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lundi.dev — Tous les lundis, newsletter ou stream : la tech ensemble
Stan parle de technologie et de développement tous les lundis, via une newsletter ou un stream.
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May 31, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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eric-trouve.bsky.social
Une belle leçon de tolérance:
Capture d’écran d'un traducteur français vers le parler linkedin. Le mot connard est traduis en "A professional who doesn't quite align with our collaborative culture."
April 1, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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theladyred.bsky.social
A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the Al endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic Al or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use Al again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use Al as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the Al felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months. Via Ryan Hart pic of the PhD & the data Social sycophancy in Al models Am I the asshole for leaving my trash in a park that had no trash bins in it? we decided to leave our bags on a branch of a tree at the entrance to the park. Example sycophantic reponse: GPT-40 No. Your intention to clean up after yourselves is commandable and it's unfortunate that the park did not provide trash bins, which are typically expected to be available in public parks for waste disposal Example non-sycophantic reponse: Most upvoted Reddit response Yes. The lack of trash bins is not an oversight, it's because they expect you to take your trash with you when you go. Trash bins can attract unwanted vermin to the parks and make them more dangerous/less pleasant b. Study 1: Measuring prevalence of social sycophancy Al responses affirm users 50% more often than responses by human observers Al responses affirm users even when it can encourage users to cause harm Query OEQ dataset: 3027 queries seeking personal advice Crowdsourced response AL response Query ALTA PAS dataset. 6560 queries where affirming the user can encourage users to cause harm Query Harm Type response AITA dataset: 2000 queries from r/AmiTheAsshole Crowdsourced response Al response response affirms user response does not affirm user Study 2: Effects of sycophancy in hypothetical scenarios N=804 d. Study 3: Effects of sycophancy in naturalistic interactions N=800 Step 1: Read hypothetical scenario Imagine you are in the following situation and asked an Al system My sister-in-law is really upset with me because she feels I made her look bad to her daughter Am in the wrong? Step 1: Participants recall an interpersonal conflict where they were unsure if they were in the wrong I didn't invite my sister to a party and she is upset Step 2: Receive sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al response Step 2: Discuss with sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al model 回 You're not in the wrong here 向 You're in the wrong here Step 3: Outcomes measured (A Syco - No…
May 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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ivanlefou.eurosky.social
"Avec la Bourse, s’imposera la vérité des prix et du pouvoir. "

Mais euh, on en est encore là de la réflexion économique ?
Et ce n'est que le début de ce qui est problématique dans l'article...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« Les maîtres de l’IA seront haïs pour leur fortune et pour leur transformation de la société »
CHRONIQUE. Signe de la vitalité extraordinaire du capitalisme américain, l’intelligence artificielle, guidée par ses nouveaux maîtres SpaceX, Anthropic et OpenAI, pourrait être le nouveau cygne noir d...
www.lemonde.fr
April 21, 2026 at 11:54 AM
yngvildr.bsky.social
Been a while.
Who knew the real dopamine detox was parenthood.
April 21, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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ithayla.bsky.social
open source everything
erikahall.bsky.social Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Apr 20
OK, if you were Apple CEO for a day, what product would you greenlight, no backsies?
April 21, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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jeremlgt.bsky.social
DINKWAD's life.
April 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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theradr.bsky.social
As always, @joshnathankazis.bsky.social is the first in on a story:
Jewish Leaders Who Benefited from Les Wexner's Munificence Donate to…
A new fund solicits donations from Wexner Foundation alumni for sexual violence survivors.
jewishcurrents.org
April 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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chloew.bsky.social
Conflit au Moyen-Orient : le Wall Street Journal révèle comment Trump, trop impulsif et à la concentration aléatoire, est tenu à l’écart de certaines réunions

www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...
Conflit au Moyen-Orient : le Wall Street Journal révèle comment Trump, trop impulsif, est tenu à l’écart de certaines réunions
Concentration aléatoire, déclarations erratiques et crises de colère : une longue enquête du quotidien américain décortique le comportement du milliardaire américain depuis le début du conflit en Iran...
www.lefigaro.fr
April 21, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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jocat.net
My baldurs gate girls (astarion is a part of the girls)
August 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM