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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoHow to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown2026-06-27T04:41:02+00:00
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-epistemological-graveyards
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=173Xy8H3_j4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCtqxOaTjs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgm8L9t0s2M
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musks-grokipedia-is-a-warning.html
robertogrecoChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction. People use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas. That only works if they trust ChatGPT to be objective… We created a political bias evaluation that mirrors real-world usage and stress-tests our models’ ability to remain objective… Based on this evaluation, we find that our models stay near-objective on neutral or slightly slanted prompts, and exhibit moderate bias in response to challenging, emotionally charged prompts.
The company was announcing the development of “an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time,” using “approximately 500 prompts spanning 100 topics and varying political slants,” across “five nuanced axes of bias.” If the goal of Grok is to express a specific bias against prevailing progressive narratives by reflecting right-wing views — or just to stay in line with the values and priorities of its creator — well, that’s achievable. (It’s also something LLMs are well suited for as a technology.) In contrast, the goal OpenAI has set for itself is “objectivity,” in practice or at least reputation, which, for a chatbot tasked with talking about everything to everyone, really isn’t.
As novel and versatile as LLM-based chatbots are, their relationship to the outside world is recognizably and deeply editorial, like a newspaper or, more recently, an algorithmically sorted-and-censored social network. (It’s helpful to think of OpenAI’s “bias evaluation” process, or Grokipedia’s top-down reactionary political correctness, as less of a systemic audit than a straightforward edit.) What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead. OpenAI’s incoherent appeal to objective neutrality is an effort to avoid this perception and one that anyone who runs a major media outlet or social-media platform knows won’t fool people for long.
OpenAI would probably prefer not to be evaluated by these punishing and polarized standards, so, as many other organizations have tried before, it’s claiming to exist outside them. On that task, I suspect ChatGPT will fail.
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Luckily for OpenAI, ChatGPT’s future doesn’t hinge on creating a universal chatbot that everyone sees as unbiased — it’ll settle for being seen as useful, entertaining, or reasonable and trustworthy to enough people. Research papers and “bias evaluations” aside, the product and its users are veering away from shared experiences and into personalized, bespoke forms of interaction in which chatbots gradually profile their users and provide them with information that’s more relevant to their specific experiences or more sensitive to their personal preferences or both. Frequent chatbot users know that popular models can drift into sycophancy, which is a powerful and general sort of bias. They also know they can be commanded to inhabit different identities, political or otherwise (you can ask ChatGPT to talk to you like a dead French poststructuralist if you want or ask it to talk to you like Mr. Beast. Soon, reportedly, you’ll be able to ask it to pleasure you sexually). Still, for all their dazzling newness and versatility, AI chatbots are in many ways continuing the project started by late-stage social media, extending the logic of machine-learning recommendations into a familiar human voice. It’s not just that output neutrality is difficult to obtain for systems like this. It’s that they’re incompatible with the very concept.
In that sense, Grokipedia — like X and Grok — is also a warning. Sure, it’s part of an excruciatingly public example of one man’s gradual isolation from the world inside a conglomerate-scale system of affirming, adulatory, and ideologically safe feeds, chatbots, and synthetic media, a situation that would be funny if not for Musk’s desire and power to impose his vision on the world. (To calibrate this a bit, imagine predicting the “Wikipedia rewritten to be more conservative by Elon Musk’s anti-PC chatbot” scenario in the run-up to, say, his purchase of Twitter. It would have sounded insane, and you would have too.) But what Musk can build for himself now is something that consumer AI tools, including his, will soon allow regular people to build for themselves, or which will be constructed for them by default: A world mediated not just by publications or social networks but by omnipurpose AI products that assure us they’re “maximally truth-seeking” or “objective” as they simply tell us what we want to hear."]]>johnherrman 2025 elonmusk grokipedia wikipedia knowledge ai artificialintelligence openai xai chatgpt llms chatbots twitter isolation socialmedia mrbeast bias censorship socialnetowrks ideology markzuckerberg antiwoke freespeech freedomofspeech centralization internet web online farright rightwing information racism race media propaganda grievance wokeismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:456f5a9fffeb/The Secret Surveillance System Behind College Football - YouTube2025-11-14T22:15:22+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yncu7A4NtSo
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https://www.equator.org/articles/inside-the-bbc-s-gaza-fiasco
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https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqOKo_7WUM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73ntAWihE
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https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge
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https://theconversation.com/scientific-objectivity-is-a-myth-cultural-values-and-beliefs-always-influence-science-and-the-people-who-do-it-259137
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https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
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https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtHCT2AHWeE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83RwQxvX_M
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https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-new-york-times-commitment-to-zionism-begins-with-its-own-staff/
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https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier
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https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/a-new-dossier-reveals-extensive-pro-israel-bias-among-reporters-editors-and-executives-at-the-nytimes/
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https://aeon.co/essays/when-is-enjoying-funny-animal-videos-not-anthropomorphism
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https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/podcast-the-final-episode-through-the-looking-glass-on-philosophy-watches/
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https://www.beyondthedial.com/post/e65-divine-dials-horological-hedonism-the-aesthetic-revolution/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mydu6gkO4Y
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https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid
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https://theweek.com/politics/mamdani-new-york-times-columbia-application-african-american
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https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk&t=3501s
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https://thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ai-indulgences-and-the-false-promise
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https://psyche.co/ideas/why-our-flawed-flexible-memories-come-with-social-benefits
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/which-types-of-people-arent-big-fans-of-impartial-news-people-who-dont-have-power/
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https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bias-spreading-stereotypes-across-languages-and-cultures-margaret-mitchell/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzEUrPfoXI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwle7GCu8rE
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https://culture.ghost.io/are-luxury-beliefs-a-real-thing-and-are-they-eroding-society/
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https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00224871251325073
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNxsTkIy_w
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIWziU-8ZM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7oSRcj7pgE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAeTwVOYVLc
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audrey-watters-on-the-dangers-of-using-ai-in-the-classroom/id1490313171?i=1000693084199
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https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/everything-i-warned-about-in-taming
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https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/second-breakfast-x-imperfect-offering
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https://helenbeetham.substack.com/p/the-audrey-watters-episode
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https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-foreclosure/
robertogrecoEducation, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. — Hannah Arendt
But AI – a large-language model or predictive algorithm or otherwise – is built on a corpus that is, quite literally, bound to the past. Education's AI has been trained on outmoded curriculum, exclusionary practices, and racist data; it is trained on YouTube videos and YouTube comments and Wikipedia entries; it is trained (mostly) on the English-language Internet – trained on a very small slice of knowledge and culture because not all knowledge and culture have been recorded, let alone digitized; and yet simultaneously trained on a disproportionately large slice of discrimination and violence, because that has been the experiences of Black students, poor students, students with disabilities, non-English-speaking students, undocumented students, and queer, nonbinary, and trans students. AI bends students to fit that old bell curve (yes, that bell curve), and there it breaks them. It does not, it cannot liberate them.
To insist, as Hoffman does, that AI offers something other than compliance and control, is to admit to existing beyond the reach of these discriminatory data regimes and practices, to being beyond reproach politically and financially and intellectually.
AI cannot hurt you or harm you or stop you from becoming because it already reflects your beliefs, your reasoning, your values. It sings to you in your voice, with your words and inflection, assuring you how very reasonable, how very intelligent you already are."]]>audreywatters 2025 ai artificialintelligence edtech reidhoffman davidsacks peterthiel elonmusk paypalmafia data privacy surveillance technology siliconvalley venmo google instagram behavior education liminalspaces victorturner hannaharendt curriculum teaching howweteach exclusion bias discrimination bellcurve eugenics ianbogost rustyfoster verarubin davidwiley caseynewton johnherrman brianmerchant garymarcus deepseek nvidia techbubble georgzoeller donaldtrump funding venturecapital pablosanguinetti danmeyer christinerosen calnewport sivavaidhyanathan maga dorothythompson talialevin thebellcurve vchttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aed0dc237dae/How 9 Popular YouTubers Helped Trump Win a Second Term2025-01-23T08:45:00+00:00
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/
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https://www.yoavshamirfilms.com/defamation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApKCPBYKYp4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY1_8GPAQMc
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/15/i-received-a-first-but-it-felt-tainted-and-undeserved-inside-the-university-ai-cheating-crisis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNnwrD44Wtc
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sunday-morning-news-shows-anti-palestinian-bias/
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/democrats-leaving-elon-musk-x-former-twitter.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=139exEIyIxc
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/how-capital-case-defendants-in-california-lost-their-rights
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https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2012/12/19/breaking-down-the-wall/
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https://www.deseret.com/2011/6/7/20196562/influencing-machine-we-get-the-media-we-deserve/
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/atlantic-scientology-sponsor-content-blunder
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-iTeLseA4
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https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/23/everything-is-a-conspiracy-theory-when-you-dont-bother-to-educate-yourself/
robertogrecoHere’s a timeless dictum that aptly applies to election administration: Everything looks suspicious when you don’t know how anything works.
There are some really good points in Perez’s article, including this tidbit:
Perhaps Musk’s most bizarre argument came when he argued U.S. elections are vulnerable due to a lack of paper ballots. “The last thing I would do is trust a computer program,” he told the audience. This was a very strange comment from a businessman who is pitching automated driverless robotaxis and robovans that depend on computer-driven artificial intelligence to protect human lives, as well as computer-driven rockets that hope to extend human civilization through the colonization of Mars.
I’m certainly sensitive to questions around electronic voting, as someone who spent many of the early years of this blog calling out sketchy electronic voting schemes. However, really over the last decade, there have been vast improvements in the security and process behind electronic voting, such that most such systems now include important safety valves and backstops, including voter-verified paper trails and risk-limiting audits. Not every state has those systems yet (even though they should!) but calling for such things is very, very different from saying that all electronic voting is untrustworthy.
But, by now it’s clear that if anyone lacks intellectual curiosity to understand reality, it’s Elon Musk. After all, he’s not only (falsely) trashing electronic voting, but he’s also been trashing mail-in ballots (which he calls “insane”), even as his own Super PAC is pushing people to vote early by mail. Oh, and also, Elon himself has regularly voted by mail.
But, back to that statement. The same day I read Eddie’s piece, I also saw the recent Hank Green video in which he talks about how he received his election ballot in Montana, and at first worried that something nefarious was underfoot. On his ballot, he noticed that in every category, the Democrat was listed last on the ballot, and he wondered if it was an attempt to sway votes (there is some science suggesting that people lower on a ballot get fewer votes).
However, Hank (unlike Elon) didn’t just run with his hunch. He investigated things and found that his worry was not valid. Montana “randomizes” the ballots by starting in alphabetical order by candidates, but then rotating the candidates down one on different ballots, so that each candidate appears on the bottom and the top of the list an equal amount of times.
[embedded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-uJl_Db4Rw ]
In other words, election officials in Montana do something right, even if seeing just the one bit of info caused Hank to worry they might have done something wrong. Hank calls out a (more popular) variation on the quote that Eddie uses above, citing the saying:
“Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t understand how anything works.”
I like that formulation even better. But, as Hank points out, this saying is a bit too mean and inaccurate. A more accurate version would be:
“Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don’t trust anything.”
I’d add a caveat to that as well, though. You have to not trust anything and also not have the intellectual curiosity to find out what’s true. Hank is the kind of person who does have that intellectual curiosity. Even though he was initially concerned, before he spouted off, he did the research and found out that his concerns were unfounded.
Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are. This makes him ever more susceptible to the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories around. He’s constructed for himself a media environment mostly designed to reinforce those biases, rather than challenge them.
In the long run, I’d say folks are better off being more like Hank Green (intellectually curious, willing to seek out information and be proven wrong) and less like Elon Musk (intellectually uncurious, willing to believe utter nonsense so long as it reinforces your priors)."]]>mikemasnick conspiracytheories curiosity hankgreen ballots elections voting 2024 bias elonmusk researchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:903e7ba180b5/My Ballot Made Me Angry - YouTube2024-10-25T18:04:57+00:00
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