If I recall correctly there was a collab starting in the early 2000s where one tech giant offered to digitise collections as a service - a way of allowing libraries to make their collections more accessible for research. Highly doubtful that terms included permission for current uses.
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Ooh interesting question! Maybe it differs between regular imagery and hyperphantasia? But your hyperphants may well imagine it anyway 🤣
I started using a different formulation for thought experiment questions recently. Perhaps it’s less jarring for some?
Old: “imagine X”
New: “scenario. X”
I did get there after re-reading the title a few times - just one of those classic trip-ups for a psycholinguist 🤓
I’m excited to read the whole paper - have some data that may be *pertinent*!
Ngl I got confused for a moment there about whether this paper was, itself, talking about reflexives 🤣
Cartoon inspired by Dante’s Inferno THE CIRCLES OF SCIENTIFIC HELL PEAK PERFORMANCE Upper hell GATES OF HELL VESTIBULE OF WASTED TIME PROCRASTINATION LIMBO •RUSHED / SLOPPY / LATE •AI OFFLOADING CIRCLE OF PANIC • CONSULT AI "SUMMARIES • PARAPHRASE AI 'SAMPLES • PATCHWORK OF AI PROMPTS LOWER HELL PLAGIARISM TOWN MISREPRESENTING AUTHORSHIP • PRESENTING WORK OF ANOTHER AS OWN • PRESENTING WORK OF AI AS OWN BESPOKE CHEATING • ESSAY FARMS/ PAID TUTORING "EXAMPLES THE GREAT WATERFALL OF BULLSHIT • SUBMITTING AI BULLSHIT FOR PUBLICATION • PURCHASING AUTHORSHIP ON BULLSHIT PAPERS • LAX PEER-REVIEW ON BULLSHIT • SUSPICIOUSLY FAST PEER REVIEW ON BULLSHIT • BULLSHIT EDITORIAL ACCEPTANCE RINGS • BULLSHIT AUTHOR LISTS • CITING BULLSHIT • DEFENDING BULLSHIT • FAILING TO RETRACT BULLSHIT THE WELL OF PROFITEERING • SELLING COURSE MATERIALS/ ANSWER KEYS / ESSAYS • EXAM ANSWER TRADES/ DOPPELGANGER FOR HIRE • PREDATORY JOURNALS / PREDATORY CONFERENCES • AUTHORSHIP SERVICES FOR SALE / SELLING AUTHOR 'SLOTS' FRAUD FAKE DATA / FABRICATED RESULTS / MANIPULATED IMAGES PIT OF HELL HARMFUL UNETHICAL RESEARCH / NAZIS Suzy J Styles (2025) CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28244552
the great waterfall bullshit in action
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Oh good grief - lie detectors again? Polygraph ONLY EVER detected stress, You can duke them by a. Being stressed for every question or b. Not being stressed even when lying.
We have all heard of ACTORS, yes? Professional liars. Mostly not stressed about it.
ML won’t save us from human deception🤦🏻♀️
“I shall send off the manuscript today or Monday. It is an extremely poor affair; I must say something & have nothing worth saying. Lock it up carefully, I hate it to that extent it would break my heart to write it again.”
Charles Darwin captures the joy of academia in a letter to his daughter, 1871
Don’t we all babe 🐝
All stars are welcome - shape and astronomical! The real Q is how vivid is it? And did you add anything hint beyond the prompt (star+red) :)
We’ve been experimenting with the transparency toolkit from HeyGears to create optically clear models of radiolarians, microscopic single-celled marine organisms that build intricate glass skeletons with stunning geometric complexity. #sciart #3dprinting
(Printer + materials provided by HeyGears)
Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.
An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.
From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...
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Taking linguistic/grammatical diversity in the world's languages 🌏 serious is important because a too narrow perspective on how language works (in the brain), based on a few and in the grand scheme quite similar languages — English, German, Dutch, … — will miss a big part of the picture. 🖼️ 🧵4/
Some clearly wilder than others
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Are they all faculty? I could only read Titchner 👀
Issue 6: If an input violates the terms or acceptable uses, the user is solely liable. However, if an output violates the terms, the user is still solely liable! Apparently the provider can never be at fault. Even when they use automated black box filtering/detection invisible to users.
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That’s one heck of a retrenchment process 🤣
I appreciate @seanhollister.bsky.social 's reporting here about the latest step Google is taking in their quest to destroy the information ecosystem and disempower information seekers:
www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
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It can be tough - “design an experiment” has a long tradition in the sciences. A subset of our students believe in the myth of their own genius and want to prove they can do it right away. But they often don’t have the skills yet, and don’t want to spend time acquiring them. Some complain heartily 👻
Yes yes! I try to be transparent, but it often involves some light misdirection.
Elite students who are used to getting away with low-effort last-minute work often HATE IT, because they can spot work without shortcuts a mile away… But it works SUPER WELL, and the vast majority are in favour!
Ah - Star (shape) and Star (astronomical) are both welcome here!
The main point of the Q is about the vividness of your imagery (or none) and whether you added details beyond star+red :)
This thread is superb and why we must not let AI win
What I like here is that the solution comes from the students themselves "multiple low-stakes attempts rather than single high-pressure performances, conversations rather than presentations, uncapped formative practice that builds confidence, and peer explanation normalised as a routine activity"
I really liked the purple ones, but hurried when adding some less sassy ones (hence the repeat). Forgot to check whether I pasted them all correctly :)
Yesssssss!
Ha! They are a bit similar because I picked the ones that talked most concretely about critical thinking rather than other stuff like group interaction.
It is entirely possible that students asked their bot-friends to write answers for them 😭 but it was optional, and the full set was quite diverse!
Ahhhh! This is what happens when we hurry on the internet 🫣
I Promise this is a Very Human Nistake* (TM) 🤖
There’s a link to the OSF way down at the bottom of the thread for anyone who wants inspo :)
bsky.app/profile/suzy...
