Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦
@paulallen.ca
Clinical director of intensive mental health services for children and youth in Canada (ret.). Believer in Truth and Reconciliation. Denier of Denialism. Student of semantics and statistics. "AI" too.
"Data" are "givens" on a scale.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"Data" are "givens" on a scale.
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But unfortunately deepfake detection models can fail in real-world settings... so in most places this presents a real challenge for users and the platforms to deal with - the technology deployed to detect this content isn't a foolproof response. arxiv.org/abs/2510.16556
Fit for Purpose? Deepfake Detection in the Real World
The rapid proliferation of AI-generated content, driven by advances in generative adversarial networks, diffusion models, and multimodal large language models, has made the creation and dissemination ...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
But unfortunately deepfake detection models can fail in real-world settings... so in most places this presents a real challenge for users and the platforms to deal with - the technology deployed to detect this content isn't a foolproof response. arxiv.org/abs/2510.16556
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This new model opens a whole new world of analysing multi region interaction across trials and tasks! More analysis and findings can be found in our paper linked below. Work lead by Jack Cook, and with great help from @danakarca.bsky.social and @somnirons.bsky.social !
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
Brain-Like Processing Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts
Examples of such pathways can be found in the interactions between cortical and subcortical networks during learning, or in sub-networks specializing for task characteristics such as difficulty or mod...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This new model opens a whole new world of analysing multi region interaction across trials and tasks! More analysis and findings can be found in our paper linked below. Work lead by Jack Cook, and with great help from @danakarca.bsky.social and @somnirons.bsky.social !
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02813
I venture that your line of work has LOTS to do with it.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I venture that your line of work has LOTS to do with it.
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“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us”
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September 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
“To add insult to injury, many metaphorical … phrases (especially used to describe ANNs; see Table 1) — like train, learn, hallucinate, reason — are applied to machines and result in distorting how we perceive these machines: humanising them while dehumanising us”
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“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.”
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.”
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