Nick Vincent
@nickmvincent
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Assistant professor @SFU_CompSci, HCI+ML for widely beneficial "AI". Especially focused on "data leverage". See more here: https://t.co/NEgvVV7WkC
West Coast of North America
Joined July 2017
Appreciate that this post was written; more public reasoning (via blogs, papers, etc.) from organizations seeking to automate the economy is overall good. One next step: more discussion of realistic plan to achieve "full-time contributors" vision alongside the RL/technical vision.
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Interesting post. Agree that "Full-time contributors, not contractors" would be good for AI progress. But. Will labs offer such jobs benevolently? I think unlikely without bargaining power. In fact, I think current trajectory is that the AI field will make work more precarious.
Previously, AI progress relied heavily on monotonous, low-skill labeling from third-party contractors producing basic text, visual, and audio data at scale. But models have outgrown simple tasks, demanding richer context and deeper expertise. The era of sweatshop data is over.
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RT @TheDRC_: Here's a weekly roundup of three pieces of helpful content within the field of decentralization: ⬇️. 1. Launch: July 9th: How….
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RT @m_t_prewitt: Delighted to share my paper with @nickmvincent and @hanlinliii . Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Information markets….
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RT @Miles_Brundage: New blog post! . While recognizing the limitations of analogies, I explore the idea that AI is more like a liquid than….
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Another blog post: a link roundup on AI's impact on jobs and power concentration, another proposal for Collective Bargaining for Information, and some additional thoughts on the topic.
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RT @SFU_CompSci: Congratulations to #SFU PhD student Haidan (Afra) Liu, who won the Best Poster Award in HCI at Graphics Interface 2025 for….
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RT @sj_manning: There is still a lot of uncertainty and disagreement about when/if such large scale labor market disruption from AI might o….
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New Data Leverage post (link in bio): . Google and TikTok rank bundles of information; ChatGPT ranks grains.
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Is there public napkin math on this claim? My impression is this is possible (and some actors will pursue) but won't be easy or trivial barring a social/regulatory environment that massively suppresses labour leverage (and turns most white collar work into surveilled/precarious).
"Even if AI progress totally stalls, it's sufficiently easy to collect data on all these different white collar job tasks that we should expect to see them automated within the next 5 years."
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Future headline: Research community shocked; LLM data details leaked after Claude 4 uses command-line tools to send a full datasheet to journalists!
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Pre-print now on arxiv and to appear at FAccT 2025: . "Algorithmic Collective Action with Two Collectives --.Aditya Karan, Nicholas Vincent, Karrie Karahalios, Hari Sundaram".
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Sharing a new paper (led by Aditya Karan):. there's growing interest in algorithmic collective action, when a "collective" acts through data to impact a recommender system, classifier, or other model. But. what happens if two collectives act at the same time?
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RT @kylelostat: we released OLMo 2 1B, showing again how well our OLMo 2 pretrain & post train recipe works!. Our small 1B model is compara….
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