The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic

The latest FOSS Academic post involves more wrestling with the implications of #generativeAI for academic peer review:

https://fossacademic.tech/2025/08/06/reviewing-ai.html

In this post, I take observations from software #developers and #openSource podcasters (such as the folks at @latenightlinux ) about how genAI is swamping things like bug bounties and code reviews. This is similar to some of the issues faced by academic peer reviewers.

#academicchatter#FOSSacademic

Having a deceased shooting victim give an interview as an AI avatar clearly gets a reaction, but I fear it's not the right one. It's such an important issue, but the novelty of this form of AI 'ghost' eclipses what is actually being said. It also begs some big ethical questions about data personal use!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/04/jim-acosta-parkland-shooting-victim-ai-interview

[Thread ... ] #digitaldeath#generativeAI #privacy #posthomousdata

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.

"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.

"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype

If you created a text corpus consisting only of true, declarative statements in English and trained a large language model on it, a generative AI system built with this trained LLM would still output false statements sometimes.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM

If you created a text corpus consisting only of true, declarative statements in English and trained a large language model on it, a generative AI system built with this trained LLM would still output false statements sometimes.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM

Generative AI advocates should be forced to only interact with other people online through vibe coded operating systems and browsers. #ai#generativeAI #eliza #llm#stochasticParrots

Generative AI advocates should be forced to only interact with other people online through vibe coded operating systems and browsers. #ai#generativeAI #eliza #llm#stochasticParrots

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

"And because LLM prompts can be repeated at industrial scales, an unscrupulous user can cherry-pick the plausible-but-slightly-wrong answers they return to favour their own agenda."

#LLMs#generativeAI

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

"And because LLM prompts can be repeated at industrial scales, an unscrupulous user can cherry-pick the plausible-but-slightly-wrong answers they return to favour their own agenda."

#LLMs#generativeAI

We have moved to KIT's own new mastodon server: https://social.kit.edu/@DiTraRe

This is the DiTraRe Leibniz Science Campus on "Digital Transformation of Research" tooting.

#Introduction#AI#AIethics#AIact#generativeAI #research #science #humanities #digitalisation #ethics #chemistry #neuhier @fiz_karlsruhe @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT @Feelix @AnnaJacyszyn @sourisnumerique @GenAsefa @enorouzi @joerg @fizise @lysander07 #dh#YoMigroaMastodon

We have moved to KIT's own new mastodon server: https://social.kit.edu/@DiTraRe

This is the DiTraRe Leibniz Science Campus on "Digital Transformation of Research" tooting.

#Introduction#AI#AIethics#AIact#generativeAI #research #science #humanities #digitalisation #ethics #chemistry #neuhier @fiz_karlsruhe @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT @Feelix @AnnaJacyszyn @sourisnumerique @GenAsefa @enorouzi @joerg @fizise @lysander07 #dh#YoMigroaMastodon

The problem of AI tech companies gaming their Chatbot Arena scores
https://youtu.be/9W_OhS38rIE
#generativeAI#AIslop#AIhype#ArtificialIntelligence#GoodhartsLaw

The problem of AI tech companies gaming their Chatbot Arena scores
https://youtu.be/9W_OhS38rIE
#generativeAI#AIslop#AIhype#ArtificialIntelligence#GoodhartsLaw

I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.

#generativeAI#higherEducation #teaching#academicChatter

The thing about this is, I worked for bosses in the 1990s who'd spend an afternoon goofing around with FileMaker Pro, and then tell their entire staff they made a "database" that had to be put into "production" ASAP. My belief then was that the boss person went golfing with one of their equally-uninformed boss buddies, heard a bunch of tall tales about some software or another, and then had to mimic what their buddy did so they could brag next time.

This looks like that, except the outputs are creepier.

https://defector.com/henry-blodget-invents-hires-sexually-harasses-blogs-about-nonexistent-ai-subordinate

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LaborDisciplineAsAService #bosses