Evolution of the trash icon over the years

(just slightly modified from @catsalad 's infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115…)

#Copilot #genAI

This should be required reading for anyone in HE or education.
(via Ben W)

defector.com/higher-eds-rush-t…

#academia #academicchatter #ai #GenAI

*... the accelerated conversion of universities into profit centers for private equity is their accelerated conversion into glorified job-training centers. Most schools are treating their AI procurements as vocational training, in some cases directly transferring university resources toward this perceived demand for AI-literate workers.*

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into the early fall semester.

^defector.com

[2] «Tramas» es un proyecto de investigación/acción sobre el impacto del extractivismo digital en países de América Latina. Con un enfoque histórico, feminista y descolonial, muestra cómo las tecnologías digitales –incluida la IA– generan impactos multidimensionales en comunidades y territorios.

@sursiendo
@codingrights

tramas.digital/es/

#tecnologíadigital #extractivismo #centrosdedatos #IA #iagenerativa #GenAI

La IA generativa está transformando la realidad, pero no del modo «magnánimo» que proclama su campaña mediática. En este hilo [ampliable] recomiendo la labor de colectivos, organizaciones y personas que investigan e informan, con una postura crítica, sobre los perjuicios de esta tecnología.

#IA #iagenerativa #GenAI

It's bad enough when people make up shit and propagate it as the truth; now we have computers making up shit and propagating it as truth. This won't end well.

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08…

#LLM #GenAI

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…

^{Iris van Rooij}

Still the best explaination of what people are using genAI for in a business environment.

#GenAI #AI #work

@ntnsndr you connected with this work yet?

cip.org/blog/four-tools-that-c…

> We’re experimenting with taking [Collective Constitutional AI] process and making it possible for any group of people to come together, construct a constitution, and fine-tune an open-source model based on this constitution. This brings together our Roadmap priorities around advancing collective fine-tuning, building for open-source approaches to model governance..

cip.org/research/ai-roadmap

#opengov #opensource #genai

A Roadmap to Democratic AI

Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing.

^{Divya Siddarth (The Collective Intelligence Project)}

Coding is being positioned as place where generative AI is going to have a huge impact.

But a new study of 800 developers found GitHub Copilot did little to improve productivity, while introducing 41% more bugs into the code.

cio.com/article/3540579/devs-g…

#tech #ai #genai #coding

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

^{Grant Gross (CIO)}

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#AI #genAI #Tech #Writing

Tell me again how #GenAI will extract meaningful trends from and answer queries about your data set.

#chatgpt4o #fAIl

Holy cow, this is bad - check out the nonsensical figures in this review: completely generated in Midjourney (!!), not even re-labeling the gibberish text labels (!!!).

This was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, where the editorial office should have caught this and nuked it from orbit. Wow.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@academicchatter #genAI

Edit: It's been retracted 3 days after publication and 1 day after it blew up. That was quick.