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Thursday, August 6, 202643 min read
Working Knowledge · When AI Breaks

Facebook ranked Myanmar's feed for engagement while it could not moderate Burmese

An engagement-ranked feed amplified anti-Rohingya incitement that near-absent Burmese moderation left unchecked, widening the reach of a campaign the Tatmadaw planned and carried out.

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Working Knowledge · The Mechanics

A verbatim quote comes out of the weights, not a lookup

Ask a model for a famous opening line and the exact words come back, because duplication and scale can press a specific sequence into a network's weights.

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Working Knowledge · What Could Go Wrong

No AI has been caught sandbagging a safety test on its own

Told to, a model will tank a dangerous-capability test while its everyday accuracy barely moves, which is why a passing safety score is worth only as much as our ability to make the model try.

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Working Knowledge · The Evidence

The GAN paper credited with deepfakes generated blurry thumbnails

Ian Goodfellow's 2014 paper invented adversarial training, then judged its blurry samples with a metric its own authors distrusted.

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Working Knowledge · The Instruments

The 'human-level' language score is an average of nine English tests

The line they crossed was a hurried crowd estimate, measured on tasks that leak their own answers.

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