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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 1m

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 5h

A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.

Review mill in Italy targeting ob-gyn journals, researchers allege

Examples of “boilerplate” text used in the suspect reviews.M.A. Oviedo-Garcia et al/medRxiv 2025 A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific…

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 5m

I enjoyed your conference back in 2017 or something. I think you said them you were done with conferences, so to do this now, I feel like you must be committed!

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 6h

I’m going to run a conference called “HolyShitCon🤯 2026” to talk about AI developments. Who wants to come?

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 9m

@9thprime.bsky.social would be a good person to talk to about this. He has a lot of experience getting various stakeholders around a table to help everyone have a voice. Going to be hard with a consumer product, though.

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 15m

It's fun to try, but, like with spam, we need several systematic interventions: blacklisting producers & statistical techniques will only do so much. Ultimately we'll need to not trust by default - anything that wasn't produced by a member of a chain of trust is suspect.

Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 9h

PSA: Please stop giving advice on spotting the hallmarks of A.I.-generated videos.

Even the pros are are having a hard time. We can't OSINT sleuth our way out of this problem. wapo.st/4ljYzJy

Analysis | How to spot an AI video? LOL, you can’t.

It’s time to stop trying to be AI detectives. We need a different approach to a world awash in realistic AI.

wapo.st

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 21m

And if the software company is a content platform, you get the added bonus of people using your platform to demand it be fixed and attribute all sorts or nefarious motives to you for not fixing it.

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 24m

Maybe it goes into this, but how does it deal with hallucination when upscaling resolution?

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 27m

So important given what this administration is doing to US Agencies.

Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 9h

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has generously awarded us funding to secure our own storage. This critical processing space will be instrumental in ensuring that large datasets can be temporarily stored, curated, and described.

Thank you, MacArthur Foundation, for your support!

Data Rescue Projects receives support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support data rescue efforts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Since launching in February 2025, the Data Rescue Project has grown substantially. At this point, the DRP has enabled the rescue of more than 1,000 datasets from US Federal…

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Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social · 7h

Announcing our Frontier Data Centers Hub!

The world is about to see multiple 1 GW+ AI data centers.

We mapped their construction using satellite imagery, permits & public sources — releasing everything for free, including commissioned satellite images.

Highlights in thread!

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 10h

That's exactly why B2B software is often such crap, though - they're designing for the purchasers, not the users.

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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 1d

Europe has a chance to shape a safer and more values-aligned future for AI innovation, and needs to. This was my main message at the AI in Science Summit in Copenhagen today.
I also presented Scientist AI, LawZero's approach to create technical guardrails and help accelerate scientific discovery.

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 23h

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Victoria Bosch @initself.bsky.social · 1d

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.

tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬

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Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social · 1d

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 #𝟴𝟵: 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 is live! CEN and CENELEC have announced exceptional measures to speed up the development of European standards supporting the AI Act.

The EU AI Act Newsletter #89: AI Standards Acceleration Updates

CEN and CENELEC have announced exceptional measures to speed up the development of European standards supporting the AI Act.

artificialintelligenceact.substack.com

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 1d

"We're not making some features available to you because some very vocal people who may not even be users of our product don't think anyone should have them".

two men are sitting in front of a crowd and one of them is talking on a phone

ALT: two men are sitting in front of a crowd and one of them is talking on a phone

media.tenor.com

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

You're too modest 😉

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bryan newbold (🇨🇦 IETF/Montreal) @bnewbold.net · 2d

AT service operators and moderation thinkers: I put together an early proposal around infra abuse notices across organizational boundaries.

really looking for feedback on this one, it is bait for counter-proposals and references to prior work!

github.com

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

It can take a while to be proven right sometimes!

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

I'm putting a sign on my stove for Known Hot November.

totallynotseth.dev @totallynotseth.dev · 2d

Unfortunately @tangled.org will be down this month in honor of no knot november

brendan @schlage.town · 2d

starting on my research for known hut november

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

Solving the blank page activation energy problem is a great use case.

David Buchanan @retr0.id · 2d

claude makes me more productive because I look at its output and then I'm like "damn this sucks, I guess I gotta write it myself"

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

Disagreeing is fine, if that's what you're into, but the generative question is "How would we know?"

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William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

Appreciate the exasperation, and also the history of claims of things that humans will always be better at is littered with corpses. Clever turns of phrase and great illustrations don't seem uniquely different such that they'd be resistant. Anyways: manifold.markets/WilliamGunn/...

Will humans remain better at clever turns of phrase and great illustrations, as Wired claims?

50% chance. Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond claims that "unearthing and communicating new and newsworthy information? Landing on the turn of phrase that says exactly what you want, so damn be...

manifold.markets

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

My experience has been that they tend to mean computer science & ML research when they talk about automating science. Has anyone made statements explicitly including wetlab research?

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

I'll just put this out there. There's a reason we have representative democracy and not direct democracy in the US. Blocklists are direct democracy. Perhaps different atproto servers should be able to elect moderators like we elect representatives?

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 3d

Re: blocklists ⬇️

I don't like being added to lists like "MAGA/dipshits/reactionaries/genociders/scammers"… But I also don't want us to decide that "we're rolling back the whole composable moderation, people can't be trusted to self govern, let's have only centralized moderation by Bluesky PBC" 🫤

Me in a thread:

Yeah I really don't know what would be best to do about it… on one hand, this is what composable moderation was meant to be. People, communities moderating for themselves. And now they started hiding a lot of the lists, making them useless for sharing…

On the other hand, a lot of lists are pretty abusive. But it always has two sides, you want to be able to moderate people you find annoying/bad, but you get pissed when you're added to one because you feel you don't deserve it…

It needs to be somehow balanced, so that people and communities can moderate as they want, but it somehow prevents some negatives

William Gunn @metasynthesis.net · 2d

Christmas: reconnecting with family
Thanksgiving: reconnecting with friends
Halloween: connecting with neighbors

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