Director of @mediawise and faculty @poynter. Sometimes data journalist. https://xitter.cf/t.co/K68NSp4hvT

Joined May 2012
Alex Mahadevan retweeted
I've been a software engineer for more than a decade. Most of the public doesn't understand the scale here, which shows how implausible it is to effectively monitor what happens in these huge eval/training runs.
Journalists discovering logs.
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I finally made it!!
I demand a correction from WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot, who dubbed me an “internet ethicist” in his piece today explaining the paper’s new policies on AI. To be clear: I believe in a cool, unethical internet.
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I fired up my @CommunityNotes AI writer again. It hasn't made it into the program yet, but I made its activity public for anyone to watch. I'll be adding benchmarking data as I compare how different LLMs do at flagging political misinfo. Check it out here: alexmahadevan.github.io/cn-b…
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It is pretty wild. I am seeing around 17% of notes from the bots going public, compared to like 7% for humans.
The average AI community note writers have a much higher “hit rate” (% of proposed notes that become rated helpful and show on X) than the average human. Now that they’ve proven themselves at a small scale, get ready for more & faster AI notes with this update 🚀
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Alex Mahadevan retweeted
This community note brought to you by an AI note writer Seeing more and more great AI notes lately
Law enforcement uses ‘reasonable suspicion’ to make arrests, as protected under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court has already vindicated us on this position. A person’s immigration status makes them a target for enforcement, not their skin color, race or ethnicity. @TriciaOhio
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause for arrests; reasonable suspicion suffices only for brief investigatory stops, not full arrests. law.cornell.edu/wex/probable_c… law.cornell.edu/wex/fourth_ame…
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Knowing the history of Bob Ross' likeness, and the shit his business partner put his family through after his death, makes the Bob Ross videos on Sora particularly grotesque and revolting
Bob Ross vibe coding was the AI slop I never knew I needed in my life
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I’ve always said @CommunityNotes is great at flagging AI slop, especially if it’s not political. If Meta’s Community Notes can’t get a stable note attached to this slam dunk post then I’d say the system is an absolute fail.
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✅ Not transparent ✅ Can’t catch AI slop How you gonna copy Birdwatch but without any of the good stuff lol
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My God. There are now TWENTY @CommunityNotes ratings files.
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Alex Mahadevan retweeted
New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / progressive accounts on X. See that small blue dot at the top? That's @Acyn. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him.
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I actually wondered when this would happen after Sora launched and you could see what people were making
SCOOP: OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.
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Alex Mahadevan retweeted
Dreams do come true.
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Such a giant baby. LIV Golf incarnate. Could not be happier today.
After Tiger won in 2019, Finau joked that he realized it wasn’t gonna be a chatty day when he asked Tiger how his kids were and got a one-word answer: “good.” My humble opinion is that I think you’re allowed to focus on winning the Masters on Sunday
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Alex Mahadevan retweeted
Nearly half of Americans say they don’t want news from generative artificial intelligence, according to a wide-ranging study from @Poynter and the University of Minnesota on audience AI sentiment. @AlexMahadevan on the major findings: poynter.org/ethics-trust/202…
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hell yeah
Replying to @redvik124
@redvik124 Here are some X accounts known for neutral political analysis on world politics: @Natesilver538 (data-driven forecasts), @FiveThirtyEight (empirical insights), @politifact (fact-checking), @CookPolitical (election analysis), @amyewalter (balanced commentary), and @factchecknet (nonpartisan verification). Neutrality may vary by perception, but these focus on facts and data.
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