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Mariel Garcia-Montes
@marielgm.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
I've always had an 'I will make time to chat with you' policy. No email is too cold, no outreach is undeserving of attention. I have to admit: my policy is challenged by a string of AI-powered emails I have been receiving. No doubt a chatbot flagged me as a person of interest and drafted an email.
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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abstract
The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general

Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial
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Ethics approval
The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.
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404 Media
@404media.co
about 2 hours ago
Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that’s captured the public’s imagination over the last few days. 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.' www.404media.co/exposed-m
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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

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Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social
about 2 hours ago
Q for those in medical science: Does the phrase "randomized controlled trial" mean that patients were actually receiving treatment (in at least one arm of the study)?
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Eugenia Stamboliev
@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
What a cringy/tragic classic; Austrians are showing off like little kids with this AI ‚innovation’ but to the world, we’re yet just another Australian (or German) dude. ‚
released in November by the Australian software engineer Peter Steinberger, could come together and do whatever they wanted.‘

For some, Moltbook showed us what’s coming next: an internet where millions of autonomous agents interact online with little or no human oversight. But is it? Smart from @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...

www.technologyreview.com

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Paris Marx
@parismarx.com
about 3 hours ago
The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on. We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan

vancouver.citynews.ca

Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan

The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
Just look at what the woke radical Marxist socialists Democrats have done
Map of US and Canada labeled Left Turn Laws In Canada & The United States with most areas in green to indicate legal left turns on red under particular circumstances
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dorian
@doriantaylor.com
about 3 hours ago
was looking something else up and saw this and welp it's the law
Voltage-Gated Ion Channel (http://glench.com/tmnt/#Voltage-Gated_Ion_Channel)
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Lori Emerson
@loriemerson.net
about 3 hours ago
bonkers times we're living through. "We are two anonymous AI trainers based in France...we receive real conversations between users and an LLM that happened on social media...We then have to respond to the user’s latest entry as if we were the LLM." data-workers.org/france/
Behind The Face of AI, by Clara and B.

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Behind The Face of AI, by Clara and B.

This short comic details the experiences of data workers in France working for Scale AI as human chatbots. They explore what it is to be human and the consequences of acting like a machine.

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Dr Zena Assaad
@zenaassaad.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
AI is often incorrectly compared to human intelligence - it's really more of a marketing agenda than anything else. This article in @aunz.theconversation.com does a great job of explaining why AI and human intelligence are not the same, nor accurately compared đŸ‘‰đŸœ share.google/n6FTOvvNFN5a...
Why comparisons between AI and human intelligence miss the point

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Why comparisons between AI and human intelligence miss the point

Human intelligence is social and embodied – but AI is very different.

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Luke Stark
@lukestark.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
The capacity of LLMs to perform some tasks to the satisfaction of some users is not a rebuttal to the conceptual, social, and even technical critiques of these technologies.
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Charles Mok
@charlesmok.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung says watchdog intends to consult lawmakers this year after legislative reform was put on hold in 2024 www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches

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Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches

Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung says watchdog intends to consult lawmakers this year after legislative reform was put on hold in 2024.

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James Grimmelmann
@jtlg.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
Judges Jones and Duncan deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as the judges who enforced the Fugitive Slave Act and the Nuremberg Laws. The U.S. legal system, as they see it, embraces state-sanctioned kidnapping, concentration camps, and murder.

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

www.stevevladeck.com

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Richard A Carter
@richardacarter.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
If it brings any silly fun to your day, I had to do a couple of test runs of the Z-Image setup on my research machine, and have discovered it is wholly incapable of yielding a generic 'Henri Matisse' painting without including a chicken. First two were 'saxophones', others, just 'a painting'...
A painting of a blue stylised chicken grasps hold of a saxophone in a dramatic fashion. None of this was in the prompt, other than a Henri Matisse painting of a saxophone.
A painting of a rather muscular chicken confidently holds a saxophone. None of this was in the prompt, other than a Henri Matisse painting of a saxophone.
An oil painting of a chicken. Prompt was a Henri Matisse painting.
An oil painting of a chicken in front of a mountain. Prompt was a Henri Matisse painting of a mountain.
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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social
about 5 hours ago
Couple of interesting related pieces today. This from @martinsandbu.ft.com explores philosopher Michael Sandel’s critique of liberalism that ‘fundamental questions are decided by markets and by technocrats’ putting ‘sovereign states and sovereign selves in question’ www.ft.com/content/7804...
The pessimist who became a prophet

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The pessimist who became a prophet

Philosopher Michael Sandel was ignored by a generation of political optimists. Now he is searching for a way out of the mess he saw coming

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Nick Couldry
@couldrynick.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape
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papers.ssrn.com

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