I spent 20 years teaching philosophy as a woman and lol I never thought I’d have so much in common with the Pope

I believe making "girly jobs appeal to manly men" is how we ended up with the idea that coding and programming was the realm of geniuses and not administrative and secretarial work, didn't we?

Did that work out well? 🤔

I know. It's really disappointing! Hopefully they will listen to folks like you.

Online is also great for many folks with disabilities, and for those who are underemployed, so it's inclusive for multiple reasons. Having some of the APA meetings online would be an excellent idea.

Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon The AI browser fight heats up.

Amazon doesn't want AI agents shopping on humans' behalf.

A judge just said the AI agent companies have to respect that and keep their agents out.

Where are the LMS companies saying, "We don't want AI agents completing learning activities on students' behalf"?

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

If this happens, we won't be curators. We will be reduced to micro-workers using AI to do our checks on AI-generated papers as quickly as possible to meet the tight demands of our shitty jobs.

It will be AI checking AI with humans sitting in the middle who can be conveniently blamed for any errors.

just this week:

-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content

...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

This is going to hurt trans folk, intersex folk, and all women. And if past patterns are any indication, it will disproportionately affect racialized women.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles Wikipedia is done with AI slop.

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name? It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content. You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name. There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

Yes, the Turing test is a test of deception. It's based on other Victorian games of deception, including the seance.

As I laid out in this CBC ideas piece, with help from several amazing scholars.

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

COMMENT 02 February 2026 Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

Nature published another pile of trash

i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields

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"What happened to me, and to thousands of others performing this invisible labor, was not just exploitation. It was a systematic erasure of our humanity in service of building the very technologies that would replace us."

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

This is so absolutely predictable:

‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

I think sometimes about the fact that I had to get a Ph.D. in order to have a voice to speak and people like Elon Musk think that living on Mars is a good idea and that gets taken seriously.

An image of an American flag behind a CCTV camera in the foreground. Text reads: The Pentagon, AI Guardrails, and the Expansion of Autonomous Authority: Pressure to remove safety restrictions raises questions about domestic surveillance, lethal autonomy, and who sets the limits when AI meets state power.

"The Pentagon, AI Guardrails, and the Expansion of Autonomous Authority." Pressure to remove safety restrictions raises questions about domestic surveillance, lethal autonomy, and who sets the limits when AI meets state power. No paywall.

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i keep saying they're essentially an attack on shared context, flattening and destroying information about sources that was present in the training data

AI psychosis is very wide-spread, and even encouraged, as can be seen by the CEO of OpenAI justifying the resources spent to train his model by equating the value of chatbots to human lives.

Literally, they see their chatbots as equal to, or more important than, actual living people.

Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity You don’t “train a human”

I sincerely thought someone was making a joke when I saw a post about Sam Altman referring to the energy required to "train a human," but no, he really is that guy

Oh interesting I wonder where they learned to just steal information to train their models like that

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

"It only takes a few minutes before there’s subtle or overt misogyny, such as comment sections on a girl’s post filled with remarks about her body, videos made by men or boys captioned with a degrading joke, and even topics such as domestic violence or rape, trivialized and laughed about."

And that's before we get to the massive exploitation of labour inherent in the development and running of these tools, both from exploitation and theft of intellectual property, and from content moderation and hidden artificial artificial intelligence workers.

This is my concern. Dependent on it for cognitive labour. For emotional regulation. For domestic tasks. For everything.

And that really means dependent on the corporations running these tools, which creates an extremely vulnerable public.

Prediction: within 48 hours, college presidents and deans will start calling their professors out of touch and outdated if they don’t “redesign their instruction around responsible use” of the “cheats its way through the whole course for you” AI bot.

Evan Soloman ( @evansolomon.bsky.social the Federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation) needs to respond to this.

We're hiring in AI ethics.
Assessment of applications will begin on March 1, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled.

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Dr. Frankenmuppet

(Only the creature would be played by a human.)