This is not an error...this is the point of these systems; one of the many reasons why academic institutions should be calling them out and not uncritically adopting them.

“Water demand from AI could become a huge issue by 2027 — AI data centers may use more water than entire countries like Denmark, and more energy than countries like France.” restofworld.org/2025/gulf-ai...

A magic eight ball

"It is the burden of every individual...to instruct themselves about the unethical data scraping practices, environmental effects, colonial-style exploitation and other negative externalities of generative AI" medium.com/@marcelogorm...

You love to see it.

This website is excellent: olivia.science/ai

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Just a thought...but maybe world leaders could start listening to actual scientists rather than techbro dropouts who steal ideas from 1990s Star Trek episodes and market them as the "future" because they don't understand how fiction or science works?

There is no technology "revolution" just the same old exhausted model at work. The AI industry promises the "radically new" while disguising the fact that it is shoring up and sustaining what is unsustainable. The AI industry is there to prop up Big Oil now that renewables are so much cheaper.

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UofT press thankfully gave us the option to opt out having our work used to train LLMs. I disagree with their statement that by engaging with LLMs "publishers can help shape ethical standards." From the environmental destruction to exploited labour, there is no "ethical" use of genAI.

Billionaire Trump Donor/Antichrist expert Peter Thiel Blames Christianity for “Wokeness”: “Maybe you should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or hyper-Christianity.” “It always takes the side of the the victim.” Um, is this pro or anti Christ? www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

The whole point of reducing words to numbers and statistical prediction (chatbots/ai) is to erase historical & cultural context.

One of the founders used to sit across from me an is now the sole direct report of Jeff Dean who, of course, fired me & wrote that our Stochastic Parrots paper didn't meet their "quality bar." What meets their quality bar? An app that kills teenagers which they spent $1B on to basically acquire.

The connection between corporate-owned chatbots and fascism is right on point! Thank you @saramartin.bsky.social I just gave a talk on how to effectively resist the rise of a global totalitarianism, we need to keep the tension between computation and languages alive.

"[N]o matter what we will continue to fight for space for students to hone their skills — think, write, program, research — unimpeded and independently," write @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and @marentierra.bsky.social.

Imagine what Canada’s “nation-building” (non-)discussion would look like if the government conducted a study like Australia’s. This is how you actually plan for the future: empirically assess the risks, discuss them and *then* act.

An incredible paper - a must read for all academics right now. Let's resist the bullshit machines that nobody asked for. cc @parismarx.com

“Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.” “Most of this technology” came from US companies.

Good for him! "‘‘I think I will continue until the University cuts all ties with companies and organisations named by the UN special rapporteur.’ Apart from Microsoft, that list includes HP, Google, Amazon, IBM, and Booking.com. "

‘Microsoft makes a lot of money from this partnership, it is simply a supplier of defence to Israel and other countries,’ says @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy 👏🏼 www.voxweb.nl/en/professor...

Great oped from @rondeibert.bsky.social from the @citizenlab.ca calling on Canada's new AI minister to stop naively cheerleading & start making policing on AI in today's Globe & Mail. "The Minister of AI should be mitigating these risks, rather than naively championing the tech behind it all."

"A tsunami of AI-enabled disinformation is already upon us, polluting the public sphere and seeping back into the language models that AI systems feed upon. What to do?" My latest oped in @theglobeandmail.com 👇 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I am convinced these people’s project is to destroy education, arts, the humanities, anything that might serve as a base for resistance to authoritarianism and fascism, and flooding schools with AI is part of that project.

Let's cram this addictive surveillance deskilling tool down kids' throats because we are are burning billions. Given error rates and computational costs, we can't recoup losses--but with a convicted felon in charge just maybe we can pass it off as education. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is why I have a deep suspicion of the "AI literacy" workshops being floated to profs by schools mainlining AI. Ed tech has co-opted "AI literacy" to mean "learn how to use our products" rather than "learn how AI works."

So much for all the supposed "libertarians," now busy sucking up to their "king"...don't fall for AI technofeudalism if you actually value liberty.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Is it too much to ask for an "AI" Minister that keeps up with the field? I am happy to share tons of research.

We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as: 1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing (Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 3/n

this should be a compulsory read to everyone in higher education regardless of your proximity to AI

Anthropic should be forced to destroy their corpus and rebuild it based on consent from authors as to whether they want their work included for $3k per book. If the author says no, or does not respond, the work may not be included. This whole situation is bullshit.

lmao, “was that a good number, sir? i’ll say whatever you want, sir, as long as you keep using the power of the US government to protect us against foreign taxes and regulations”

@mark-carney.bsky.social 'AI' is a myth: "countries are reshaping economic policies just to avoid being ‘left behind’—a fear fabricated by the industry. Harms: 'widening inequality, underperforming and untested systems, and mounting environmental costs.' www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/phi...

The "libertarians" sure love grovelling and dictators

"If AGI is still a faraway dream and the industry’s technical leader has no clear pathway to it, then Silicon Valley has made a terrible bet." And AGI is a fiction. AI is about addiction, surveillance, data harvesting--same guys & same model as social media platforms.

"When even Republican-aligned figures are openly mocking the spectacle of a surveillance billionaire moonlighting as a religious lecturer, it suggests Thiel has badly misjudged his audience."

You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.

And while we are at it can we drop the chatbot hype and have a people's data storage that respects privacy and is fuelled by renewable energy.

Excellent news - @aoc.bsky.social has secured a DOE study on the impact of uncontrolled data centre expansionism on electricity bills in the US -->>> ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-...

Exactly...it is super irritating that there has been so much uncritical adoption of genAI and that governments seem to have swallowed the industry hype.

Given the litany of problems with corporate-owned chatbots, (societal, environmental, etc) why are we wasting so much money turning words into numbers (hint: fascism)

Max Tegmark on AI 2017: The "Omega Team" build a media empire; take over global news; use AI to "revolutionize" education"; take over government services; groom political candidates; undermine nation states; use bribery & “persuasion machinery” to “erode all previous power structures in the world.”

Canada... bring back the digital service tax...angering fascists is the point.

Lots of young people died to stop the nightmare of fascism. The Wannsee conference: "The men seated at the table were among the elite of the Reich. More than half of them held doctorates from German universities." Now we have corporate "AI" and Musk's Grok that calls itself MechaHitler.

On Project 2025 invite: "would be beneficial for cabinet to hear Roberts's perspective and understand the White House's priorities"; also invited "artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm." Isn't Trump's fascist agenda backed by AI billionaires pretty clear? @mark-carney.bsky.social

Record deaths of children in war zones with tools brought to you by the AI industry (Meta, Anthropic, Open AI, Google, and Microsoft are all heavily invested in war), addictive platforms, and socially and environmently destructive chatbots...they must really have it in for kids.

In-depth reporting by @vauhinivara.bsky.social on how AI tools are being integrated into K-12 despite a wide range of deep concerns and little research to support the push. My takeaway: teachers who are resisting when districts and ed institutions are selling kids out to tech cos. need support.

Anyone still buy claims made by master con men: Altman, did I say AGI, sorry "AI" is a bubble"; Zuck and his "metaverse"; Musk and his endless bs: "The post is stuffed with sentences that sound like a kid imitating college-level discourse." NB "AI" is not the future. techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/t...