A5: #pugtalk

A4: Raison’s besties were always cats 🐈 Here she is with her favorite kitty friend Stubs. Both have crossed the rainbow bridge #pugtalk

A2: what animal, I don’t see an animal #pugtalk

A1: Fertilizer Raison

Raison is here in spirit- Ohio #pugtalk

"There’s no question there is a disruption in progress and that generative AI is implicated in it, but the desire of corporate executives to deskill and disempower workers is a far more consequential driver than any new technology." 👀

Reposting so I can come back later to look at this

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology The Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a full-time position as tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position is a six-year tenure-track appointmen...

Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience
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The AI age is the "age of no consent" "Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it needs all of your data to do it.

In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

2016 : Let there be fair AI...
2019 : Oh, wait!
2026 : Rogue AI everywhere killing people and whatnot.

Plans for huge expansion of Meta data center advanced by Louisiana electricity regulators This new generation would come on top of three gas power plants that Entergy is already building for Meta's $27 billion data center.

I remember blocking someone here because they quoted my woodfire post and talked about how we need to stop doing little hobbies because of their carbon footprint, meanwhile Meta is getting approval from my state to build 10 gas power plants for one useless data center
www.nola.com/news/environ...

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Harper | Privacy-First Offline Grammar Checker Harper checks your writing instantly—fast, lightweight and utterly private—so you can polish every clause without surrendering a single keystroke.

As a predominantly inattentive ADHDer, the only way that an LLM could 'help' me write is with cognitive offloading, which is actually a lie, and one that I do not trust.

For grammar checking, there is a great open source alternative to Grammarly which is entirely non-LLM called Harper.

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

Just a professor standing in front of BlueSky demoralized because exams my students used to get a mean of 83% on prior to 2020 are now failed in large numbers. It seems that their ability to APPLY concepts to new contexts/domains has all but disappeared.

I love these students & I am worried.

Same here. My colleagues also are experiencing this. We talked about it at a recent faculty meeting and wondered what to do

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Nature - Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad.

LLMs warned people the illness was real.

go.nature.com/4mDXXka

@patrickfreyne.bsky.social with all the right words, in the right order: "language is ultimately how we build community with one another. A world of LLM communication is a colder, blander one devoid of incidental human empathy and original thought."

Reminds me of my mid career arrival as a full professor: my graduate students aksing me to please leave the the lab as I was getting in their way. Ah, I thought, I have finally succeeded

I'm almost there ...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

More and more organizations are coming out against AI in schools.

He was ever the optimist. Time will tell if he was a prophet

HISTORICAL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: These people have been dispossessed of the fruits of their own labor for centuries. They were denied the opportunity to build generational wealth and influence. We will strive to correct this.

MAGA AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: Give me money because I like to say the N-word

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

To adapt the FDA language...

"This encounter has not been evaluated by anyone. This PR stunt is not intended to depict, simulate, mimic, or reproduce any actual delivery.”

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’ Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock Office workers find that they are being flooded by AI generated workslop that's paradoxically making them less productive.

Looks like AI is not the magical tool that CEOs make it out to be.

BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.

The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.