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misaligned bits is our (roughly) weekly newsletter with bits and news, recaps from articles we published and latest studies in the field.

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misaligned bits #19: Flatter Me

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 β€œβžšβ€ (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with β€œπŸ”’β€. Misaligned recap In this week’s featured article β€œThe AI Industry, Unloved” we look at the rapid...

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 β€œβžšβ€ (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with β€œπŸ”’β€. Misaligned recap Jim Loving wrote in Misaligned about the similarity between...

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 β€œβžšβ€ (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with β€œπŸ”’β€. Misaligned recap Last Saturday thousands of scientists protested across the United States against the attacks on academic institution by the...

misaligned bits #11: Preparing For Impact Welcome to a new edition of misaligned bits, the newsletter by misaligned where we sum up recent news, with a lighter touch. In this edition: Insurers are unsure about AI. Grok has another lapse. And LLMs are seriously biased against people who speak dialect. As usual, we will mark all non-medium links with β€œβžšβ€ (external link) and all possibly paywalled links with β€œπŸ”’β€. Misaligned Recap For your convenience, we have compiled a list of studies from 2025...