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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.

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  If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  A recurring AI workflow improves more through ongoing user feedback than by being fully specified upfront.

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  This is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it.

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Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.

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  The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

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  As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.

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Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.

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  Feast-or-famine corner outcomes, not modest proportional belt-tightening, are the generic result of price controls.

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  This paper shows that feast or famine, not modest belt-tightening, is the generic outcome of price controls.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  What a message-recipient considers important is too idiosyncratic to be captured by generic heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."

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  It's a good example of how user preferences are much more subtle than broad heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  The Code Breaker

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  I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.

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Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.

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  Language models lack catalog-specific knowledge, so their recommendations tend to be generic and biased toward popular items.

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  language models have world knowledge and can eloquently talk about products, but are unaware of our catalog. Also, their recommendations are generic and suffer from popularity bias.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Generic Office Chair with Upgraded Roller Blade Wheels

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  Generic Office Chair with Upgraded Roller Blade Wheels — makes rolling around the office much easier.

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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

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  The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

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  What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.

  Fighting for our webcitationneeded.news

Programmer; founded comma.ai and tinygrad, and was the first to unlock the iPhone.

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  Anyone who cannot write a full software stack for NVIDIA's generic GPUs has no chance of writing one for their own, more specialised, AI chip.

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  It’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.

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Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.

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  The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.

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  These new models are poised to flood the web with generic, generated content.

  The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com