Mastodawn

Nach unserer Recherche zur rechten Vergangenheit des Polizeiprofessors Stephan Maninger veröffentlicht Die Welt einen Beitrag, der unsere Arbeit als Teil einer Rufmord-Kampagne framt. Wir haben uns erfolgreich gewehrt: Mehrere Falschbehauptungen, die das Narrativ einer gezielten Kampagne stützen und uns Verstöße gegen journalistische Standards unterstellen, dürfen Die Welt und alle anderen Medien des Springer-Verlags nun nicht länger verbreiten.
https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/klagen/2026/03/springer-verliert-gegen-fragdenstaat-vor-gericht/?pk_campaign=mastodon

Rechter Polizeiprofessor: Springer verliert gegen FragDenStaat vor Gericht

Der Springer-Verlag darf Falschbehauptungen über einen FragDenStaat-Journalisten nicht länger verbreiten. Das haben Gerichte entschieden.

FragDenStaat

Claudio Z 6d ago

Mitchell Whitelaw 6d ago

LLMs are engines for “more of the same” - they homogenise language and ideas: culturally hazardous. This paper shows massive similarities across responses from 25 models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22954

A great video outline: https://youtu.be/0PB09fsydZE?si=S0XwcRhBJleyEdpC

#ai #hivemind #llm

Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)

Language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable methods for evaluating LM output diversity remain limited, especially beyond narrow tasks such as random number or name generation, or beyond repeated sampling from a single model. We introduce Infinity-Chat, a large-scale dataset of 26K diverse, real-world, open-ended user queries that admit a wide range of plausible answers with no single ground truth. We introduce the first comprehensive taxonomy for characterizing the full spectrum of open-ended prompts posed to LMs, comprising 6 top-level categories (e.g., brainstorm & ideation) that further breaks down to 17 subcategories. Using Infinity-Chat, we present a large-scale study of mode collapse in LMs, revealing a pronounced Artificial Hivemind effect in open-ended generation of LMs, characterized by (1) intra-model repetition, where a single model consistently generates similar responses, and more so (2) inter-model homogeneity, where different models produce strikingly similar outputs. Infinity-Chat also includes 31,250 human annotations, across absolute ratings and pairwise preferences, with 25 independent human annotations per example. This enables studying collective and individual-specific human preferences in response to open-ended queries. Our findings show that LMs, reward models, and LM judges are less well calibrated to human ratings on model generations that elicit differing idiosyncratic annotator preferences, despite maintaining comparable overall quality. Overall, INFINITY-CHAT presents the first large-scale resource for systematically studying real-world open-ended queries to LMs, revealing critical insights to guide future research for mitigating long-term AI safety risks posed by the Artificial Hivemind.

arXiv.org

Claudio Z Mar 10

Wibke Ladwig Mar 8

RE: https://sueden.social/@kinghaunst/116193904891499184

Dieser Typ, der Kanzler sein will, hat von Leben doch überhaupt keine Ahnung.

Claudio Z Mar 10

Denis - The COVID info guy -Mar 9

Repeatedly getting Covid doesn’t build immunity, ‘it’s more like accumulating damage’

Leading vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris says there's not enough awareness of the impact of Covid-19 on overall health.

"What many people don't realise is that getting Covid repeatedly is not like building immunity, it's more like accumulating damage," she says.

Source: https://archive.md/Qsv13

Claudio Z Mar 10

Peter du Toit Mar 10

Maybe it is time to revisit the 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use?

This could reduce global oil demand by 2.7 million barrels a day in 4 months.

Source: https://www.iea.org/reports/a-10-point-plan-to-cut-oil-use

Claudio Z Mar 10

Astronomy Picture of the Day Mar 10

Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory
Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten

Explanation: Are lasers from giant telescopes being used to defend the Earth? No. Lasers shot from telescopes are now commonly used to help increase the accuracy of astronomical observations. In some directions, Earth atmosphere-induced fluctuations in starlight can indicate how the air mass over a telescope is changing, but in other directions, no bright star exists. In these directions, astronomers can create an artificial star with a laser. Subsequent observations of the artificial laser guide star can reveal information so detailed about the changing blurring effects of the Earth's atmosphere that much of it can be removed by rapidly flexing a telescope's mirror. Such adaptive optics techniques allow high-resolution ground-based observations of real stars, planets, and nebulas. Pictured here, telescopes at Paranal Observatory in Chile study a colorful sky filled with green airglow and the Magellanic Clouds on the left, red airglow on the right, and the majestic central band of our Milky Way Galaxy arching across the center.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260310.html #apod

Claudio Z Mar 10

Peter Gleick Mar 10

Do you all remember that the International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for war crimes for Netanyahu and Gallant?
Seems like similar charges could be drafted for Trump and Hegseth.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5739395/iran-school-airstrike-tomahawk-missile-trump

Claudio Z Mar 10

JA Westenberg Mar 10

the word "ecosystem" should be banned from business communication until people demonstrate they understand what an ecosystem is

Claudio Z Mar 10

KLIMA° vor acht e.V.Mar 10

Klima im TV? Immer weniger. 📉

Wir haben ausgewertet, wie viel Klimaberichterstattung bei Das Erste und ZDF im Gesamtprogramm vorkommt. Das Ergebnis ist alarmierend – ein Thread. 🧵👇

#primetimefuersklima #wirfuerkv8 #medienklimakrise #klimavor8

Claudio Z Mar 7

Fair Trade Music Friday Mar 5

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