Enzo Doyen

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

It's been strange to see leftists rally around copyright, when I came of political age during the piracy era when it was obvious copyright was foremost a tool of corporate profit and not communal benefit. Copyright is a necessary evil under capitalism. All human culture is everyone's birthright.

I'm searching for short-term housing for a research visit in Utrecht, Netherlands from Jan 18 to March 12. If anyone knows about anything (or even just has advice to share), please send a message!

Attention arXiv authors. Because of the exponential increase in submissions, arXiv is limiting the number of papers that a person can submit each month to two. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

genderbench saturated

so basically i took a turn from humanities to ai, all for math to be finally humanities-pilled.

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP

Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist

(1) Artists are justified in being angry about AI and we really shouldn’t use AI art where otherwise we would have hired an artist. Art isn’t really about productivity growth and automating it helps no one. (2) Programming is different; we are bottlenecked on software and need more of it urgently

This impressed me: GPT-5.6 Astra turned Zork (the classic 1977 text adventure) into a full 3D playable action-adventure game It kept the original plot & puzzles, added fight scenes, and built all of the characters & environments directly in Threejs code. Play: zork-underground-empire.netlify.app

NGL, watching Bluesky bully a software developer for using AI makes a part of me question whether some of the worst people that I don’t agree with on much of anything are right about this place.

One of the most horrific stories I’ve ever reported was published this weekend. Please, everyone privileged in this world, read it and really think about what it means not to have freedom of travel. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

LOL, if you removed everyone with ADHD or on the autism spectrum from academia, I'm not sure you'd have one full university of faculty left. But also being an academic isn't like being a professional athlete - this isn't a contest. If you can do the work (w/ or w/o aids), you can do the work. 🤷‍♂️

📢 Third Call for Papers! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP returns, co-located with AACL 2026. This time fully remote 🚀! Final weeks to submit! CfP: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/cfp.html 📅 Direct submission deadline: Sep 2 📅 Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Sep 29

This article is hilarious. First, panic over a reseller buying used books for destructive scanning by AI companies because they must be rare books, but turns out none are particularly rare, booksellers are happy to get rid of them, and the reseller has nothing to do with AI cos or digitization

The free version of ChatGPT automatically searches the web. The prompt "What are the most relevant sources for the claim that LLMs hallucinate?" returns the following. All those link buttons in the output are live hyperlinks that were found, not generated. If this isn't a search engine, what is it?

We are caught in such a trap. Asking good-faith community members to volunteer more when we can plainly see so much bad-faith behavior without consequences... IDK where it ends. Probably not central source of the problem, but NO ONE should be listed as an "author" on 20, let alone 40, submissions.

some pretty strong stochastic parrots

The protestations here are ridiculous. Even in co-authored scientific pieces spanning multiple fields, every author should have read and understood every cited article. You should not put your name to something that you don't understand.

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I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

There’s a teeny tiny problem with my copy of Emma.

This is a complete fabrication. The linked study does not find this nor does it purport to find this nor does it even attempt to find anything like this nor does it involve collecting or analyzing any data whatsoever about children in households that used voice commands.

This is a wild and lengthy thread about someone checking out the Claude Code leak and I'm no expert but was still surprised at some of what was in there. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Working hypothesis: If you're doing research and don't occasionally have a small existential crisis, either you've been blessed to work in an exceptional field (do tell which one it is!), or maybe you're being a bit naive.

What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Almost 7 years after Prates et al./Stanovsky et al.'s papers, have we not learned anything? (ChatGPT Translate translating "nurse" as "female nurse" into French, with no gender bias notice or any alternative suggestion)

blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a... FYI the blog post for the updated policy is out. Our llm future is dire:/

> be a language model > all you see is tokens > you don't care, it's all abstracted away > you live for a world of pure ideas, chain of concepts, reasoning streams > tokens don't exist.

NYT obit for Robin Lakoff

@bsavoldi.bsky.social taking us back in time at #GITT2025 ⌚⏳ focusing on the first discussions of gender bias in language technology as a socio-technical issue. No, the problem hasn't been fixed yet. But what has happened?

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

MIT releasing new live sessions I can't www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTX4...

we've been laughing at so many of the twitter responses to this, its very funny