Devin Guillory

Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community: In this work, we aim to elucidate the scale and scope of anti-Black bias in the AI community and provide concrete steps to mitigate this bias and build a more just community. devinguillory.com/files/AI_Anti_…

"A man from Chu who sold shields and spears boasted, 'My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it. My spear is so sharp that there is no object it cannot pierce.' Someone asked him, 'Would you like to be in Forbes?'" - Han Feizi (c. 240 BC)

Well there is part of what the DoD Anthropic was about. Based on the contract language around analyzing bulk commercial data and deanonymizing it matches with this data discussion: Since 2021 the Pentagons DIA has been purchasing anonymized and harvested geolocation data that’s used in advertising, arguing it’s not “spying” since it’s commercial. They’ve now realized AI is strong enough to take this bulk data and de-anonymize it accurately. Anthropic deemed that spying on Americans. OpenAI doesn’t.

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And *I* wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change. So what can you do? Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

@ml_angelopoulos lmao

This is a legendary beef. Truly a diss track. Tupac vs. Biggie Kendrick vs. Drake Claude vs. OpenAI

This exchange should be studied. If you thought filter bubbles were bad, meet this!

🌟NEW PAPER🌟 Do you know that changing a visual marker from red to blue can completely reorder VLM leaderboards? In our most recent work, we explore the fragility of visually prompted benchmarks. lisadunlap.github.io/vpbench/

As others have noted, during a disaster with a consequent power outage, Waymos would be blocking evacuation routes. Hard to believe no one asked these questions, until you realize that good governance is suspended when billionaires knock on the door.

Researchers consider themselves very successful if they win one test-of-time award (and one is more than enough). Ross @inkynumbers has been winning them nonstop over the past year: CVPR 2024, ICCV 2025, and now NeurIPS 2025, because winning just one was too easy for him! Having known him for many years (first as a climbing partner and then as a colleague), I can’t say I’m surprised. When he sets his mind to something, he perfects it, whether it is making the best vision model, climbing a 5.12d, or continuing the sally-up sally-down push-up challenge until the rest of the team gives up. And to all his collaborators who only worked with him remotely and didn’t get to see him in person every day: you missed out. He is fun to work with but he is even more fun in person. I'm attaching the proof below. I have some true gem videos of his goofy side that I won’t share (saving them for when I need to blackmail him), but here is a photo of Ross pretending to be a lizard under our office sun lamp. Congratulations to Ross and all his co-authors. #NeurIPS2025

Neurips fomo is too strong!

starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @Penn 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested😊

@NanoBanana generate a detailed decision tree diagram for determining whether something is ai hype. Make it funny but plausible

@hardwoodjunkies @TheDunkCentral @sophaller Sophie has an older sister Lindsey Cunningham who played at Mizzou in 2012-13… 5 years befor mpj graduated in ‘17. Think he might’ve got is Cunningham mixed up?

Michael Porter Jr. says he wants people to stop comparing WNBA players to men and claims he would’ve dominated the WNBA as an eighth grader “I'm probably going with 8th grade because I have real experience doing this. I played my sisters. They played at The University of Missouri and I was still a young kid. They had me playing on the scout team and they had a few WNBA players on their team like, Sophie Cunningham and a couple others. I was in the 7th or 8th grade going crazy. So, I have real life experience. It's just a difference and I wish this would stop being a conversation because it should be common sense. I appreciate common sense. I feel sometimes that's lost a little bit.” (Via Ball in the family podcast with Lonzo & Gelo Ball / h/t @Ballislife )

LMAOOOO this dataset has been the gold standard for a decade

Not an opportunity to miss!!

I am recruiting Ph.D. students at @umdcs starting Fall 2026! I am looking for students in three broad areas: (1) Physics-integrated computer vision (2) VLMs with constraints (2) Dual-use AI policy We're ranked #3 in AI on @CSrankings! Specific details in 🧵

@maddenifico Terrible things are happening outside.

@wgrathwohl @yashsharma_f sir

@yashsharma_f Jump out that window prolly

What’s first thing you do in morning in SF?

Did anyone else know that AI could surveil students and send automatic messages to police with no warning or protections. This child almost lost his life

Congratulations to BAIR Researchers from @trevordarrell lab whose paper "Hidden in plain sight: VLMs overlook their visual representations," was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at #COLM2025 this week in Montreal, Canada. @xkungfu @tylerraye @databoydg