ChatGPT’s learning successes retracted, questionable productivity stats, Palantir gets more of UK’s health data, hallucinations are accelerating, and AI assistants make us a bit dumber. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. New in Misaligned this week:...
13 days ago • 4 min read
Legal agents in Word, Meta’s AI copies word-for-word, the Pentagon has a word with AI companies, and what influences the use of writing assistants. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. A court in Hangzhou city, China, an AI hub, has ruled in favour of a...
19 days ago • 3 min read
Employees at Palantir and Google wonder who are the baddies, techno fascism, apologies and critical looks at LLMs in health care. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Palantir related bits Minneapolis campaigners are pressing the Swiss National Bank to...
27 days ago • 4 min read
Manifest fallout, legal bits, AI Psychosis and relying on AI assistants could be bad for your performance. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Manifest bits More than 200,000 people have signed two petitions urging the UK government to sever its ties...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Stargate to nowhere, Gen Z has little hope for AI, Musk wants the right to discriminate, AI’s mirage reasoning. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Stargate to nowhere OpenAI has announced it is “pausing” its Stargate Data Centre project in the UK,...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
AI is swallowing poison, AGI scares are back on the marketing menu, copyright questions again and LLMs are bad for your health. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Misaligned Recap As a quick reminder, can now also subscribe to this newsletter directly...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Everyone is in court, chatbots are plotting, ghosts in machines, social media made addictive and bots want to flatter. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Misaligned recap In this week’s featured article “The AI Industry, Unloved” we look at the rapid...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
OpenAI is cuts corners, Lords are siding with creatives, Oracle scales down while others scale up, and AI makes scientists think the same. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the (roughly weekly) newsletter from Misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Misaligned recap Jim Loving wrote in Misaligned about the similarity between...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Pub Crawl, update on the baddies, Microslop, data centres in bad places, chatbots and privacy. Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the newsletter by misaligned where we sum up recent news and research, sometimes with a lighter touch. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with “➚” (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with “🔒”. Misaligned recap Last Saturday thousands of scientists protested across the United States against the attacks on academic institution by the...
2 months ago • 3 min read