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   People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

   3 points by randomwalker 4y ago|1 comments
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   ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

   3 points by randomwalker 4y ago|0 comments
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   The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

   6 points by randomwalker 4y ago|0 comments
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   by randomwalker 4y ago

   I learned from one of the comments on my original post that many scholars have been saying this for a while, and that there's in fact a book that makes the same point! Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Oth
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   by randomwalker 4y ago

   OP here. The full title of this article is "Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good." The last word was edited out by the mods, presumably under the belief that it's clickbait. Unfortuna
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   The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education(aisnakeoil.substack.com)

   304 points by randomwalker 4y ago|360 comments
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   Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science(wired.com)

   3 points by randomwalker 4y ago|1 comments
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   Security policy audits: Why and How(arxiv.org)

   60 points by randomwalker 4y ago|26 comments
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   by randomwalker 4y ago

   OP here. I totally agree that ideally authors should report most of this information in the paper itself. One advantage of a standalone document (we suggest putting it in an appendix) is that it's easy for reviewers to check that all o
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    by randomwalker 4y ago

    It's possible you may have misunderstood the title of the post. It isn't about the science of ML, or GPT-3, or brains. Rather, it's about using ML as a tool to do actual science, like medicine or political science or chemistr
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    Leakage and the reproducibility crisis in ML-based science(reproducible.cs.princeton.edu)

    80 points by randomwalker 4y ago|37 comments
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    Password policies of most top websites fail to follow best practices [pdf](passwordpolicies.cs.princeton.edu)

    2 points by randomwalker 4y ago|0 comments
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    Password policies of most top websites fail to follow best practices(passwordpolicies.cs.princeton.edu)

    1 points by randomwalker 4y ago|0 comments
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    Mitigating dataset harms requires stewardship: Lessons from 1000 papers(arxiv.org)

    64 points by randomwalker 5y ago|6 comments
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    Resurrecting Address Clustering in Bitcoin(arxiv.org)

    1 points by randomwalker 5y ago|0 comments
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    Security and Privacy Risks of Number Recycling at Mobile Carriers in the U.S. [pdf](recyclednumbers.cs.princeton.edu)

    64 points by randomwalker 5y ago|7 comments
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    FTC settlement with Ever orders data and AI deleted after face recognition pivot(techcrunch.com)

    65 points by randomwalker 6y ago|6 comments
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    Facial recognition datasets widely used despite removal due to ethical concerns(freedom-to-tinker.com)

    1 points by randomwalker 6y ago|0 comments
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    Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 100K emails [pdf](electionemails2020.org)

    139 points by randomwalker 6y ago|55 comments
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    Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter(internetofthieves.org)

    77 points by randomwalker 6y ago|25 comments
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    Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future(queue.acm.org)

    133 points by randomwalker 6y ago|32 comments
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    Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter(internetofthieves.org)

    4 points by randomwalker 6y ago|0 comments
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    by randomwalker 7y ago

    Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy | Princeton, NJ | Onsite | Full Time Princeton CITP is a leading research center at the intersection of technology and public policy. We've conducted groundbreaking work on
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    by randomwalker 7y ago

    That's fair. We don't claim that this is a new problem; we are merely adding evidence and our perspective to a known problem. We do link to others who have reported similar problems when trying to disclose vulnerabilities. The sen
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    Vulnerability Reporting Is Dysfunctional(freedom-to-tinker.com)

    59 points by randomwalker 7y ago|23 comments
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    by randomwalker 7y ago

    Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy | Princeton, NJ | Onsite | Full Time Princeton CITP is a leading research center at the intersection of technology and public policy. We've conducted groundbreaking work on
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    Five Years of the Right to Be Forgotten [pdf](elie.net)

    1 points by randomwalker 7y ago|0 comments
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    by randomwalker 7y ago

    Author here. I appreciate your criticism. What I had in mind was more along the lines of Google's claims around diabetic retinopathy. I received feedback very similar to yours, i.e. that those claims are based on an extremely narrow pr
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    by randomwalker 7y ago

    Just to clarify, this is not a new finding, but an explainer of a study from 2016. Note that this fingerprinting technique exploits differences in the behavior of the AudioContext API, but does not (and cannot) actually record audio. Paper:
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    Why Enterprise Software Sucks(twitter.com)

    1310 points by randomwalker 7y ago|554 comments