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A study shows that when LLMs are asked to output in JSON format, their answer diversity collapses significantly compared to plain chat, with modal answers becoming more common and distinctive models losing half their uniqueness.
A reflective essay on tech monoculture and the value of 'useless' research, centered around the author's hands-on experience with Folk Computer, an open-source physical computing system that reimagines programming as a collaborative, spatial activity.
This large-scale study of 3.4 million job applicants across 156 employers reveals that algorithmic monocultures in hiring algorithms from a single vendor cause racial disparities and systemic rejections, with 25.87% of Black applicants and 14.74% of Asian applicants adversely impacted.
A research paper analyzing how algorithmic monoculture in hiring—where many employers use the same vendor's screening algorithms—leads to systematic rejection of the same individuals and racial groups, using a dataset of 3 million applicants.