Idiots value "scaling up" above all else. No rhyme or reason. No care about content or usefulness or quality. Just slop for the sake of an arbitrary metric.

Ridiculous rag. Not a real newspaper.

Why?

Assholes

The centrist "leftists made me do it" tech bro to Atlantic pipeline. That train is never late. Just beyond predictable.

Another example of how AI normalizes pathology and pathologizes normalcy.

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

What the fuck does this quote even mean? It doesn't even make sense. How do you "use" AI (or anything) "deeply"? Sounds like it was written by ChatGPT. What a dumbass.

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Why should anyone engage with his arguments when he's too stupid and lazy to do the basic research? Why does he think he's entitled to be part of the discourse when he lies? This guy is just a racist. Why is anyone talking to him?

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have

I loathe him so deeply. Just a horrible person in every way.

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

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The lack of self awarenesss, the massive amounts of projection, the gross preening about alleged past sexual relationships, the utterly pathetic vibes emanating off this piece (issued after Habermas died so he couldn't dispute the account)...it's just breathtaking loser shit of the highest degree.

It's not like he earned it. No one person "earns" that much money. Not by labor, not by "genius"--not by any human or sane measure in this world is the work of his whole miserable life worth that much. That is obviously just a silly byproduct of a fake and stupid system.

When my baby brother was little and my mom would change his clothes in front of other people he would close his eyes, thinking that that meant no one could see him either. It's like this guy: "I don't have a soul, so neither do you."

He's a lunatic AND a loser. There literally is no there there. Just an empty shell of a person, poisoned further by money, and convinced of his own intelligence. All these despicable rich men are exactly the same. Bezos, Karp, Altman, Musk. The list goes on. Like carbon copies of one another.

Nothing to study. He's every dummy standing around a corner store mouthing off about shit he knows nothing about. How he got rich is also not a surprise. Capitalism is a disease. Racism is a disease. This is a man who has done bad things and doesn't want to feel guilty about it. Textbook a-hole.

Utterly insane. If he had read so much as a Wikipedia article about an ancient philosophy he would at least have come across Stoicism. Total fucking illiterate. Embarrassing. Beyond embarrassing. These are the assholes destroying our world.

The wild historical illiteracy of these guys is just astonishing. For people who claim to idolize the ancients they’ve never read a fucking word Socrates wrote except via meme

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

Not only does he just hate women, but plumbers have always made more than professors. We don't care. This guy is a fucking idiot.

It's because they know they're full of shit and the whole stupid project is undergirded by the obvious fact that they're insecure and deeply jealous of people who have the courage to to think and make and be who they want to be.

Sometimes a guy wants to look tech savvy On Here and writes “They aren’t just stochastic parrots, we use reinforcement learning through human feedback now” and just to be clear that is *literally* how you train a parrot

And somehow you, an elected government official, are posting on social media instead of doing anything substantive or real about it. How about you go deal with your colleagues who enable this shit?

I am genuinely afraid that the world will erupt into WWIII, and that millions of people, including many I love, are going to suffer or die. I do not know how to deal with this.

When administrators talk about AI in higher ed they make it sound like a threat: do it or else, you have no other option. When students talk about AI, they make it sound like an addiction: I know it's bad for me but I keep going back to it anyway. Think about what they are doing to your kids.

The Chronicle is not about academia, its just running cover for the corporate gutting of higher ed. Like the Atlantic for GOP policies.

Do not give these parasites one red cent.

Good

Everything is so fucking stupid.

No serious person lifts weights in jeans. RFK is many things--dangerous, evil, poisonous, rotting from the inside, arrogant, elitist, toxic, a waste of air, a mass murderer of children by disease and preventable illness. But he is also a fucking fraud and such a wannabe -just a total fucking loser.

There is such an easy route that Uni's are failing to take. Lead with culture change. Stop spamming us about the new software and partnerships. Stop the endless workshops in the teaching and learning centers. Start talking about what learning is and when these products help or hurt this process.

How are we still doing this? How is it possible that people still don't understand this? Have they never spoken to other human beings before? Why is qualitative analysis so mysterious?

I get it now. AI means “artificial information.”

Just a stupid, stupid technology. What an evil and awful waste of time.

This is the way I see AI killing us all. Not because it becomes conscious and thinks we are all paper clips or whatever, but via capital plus military plus dumb men competing because inside, they are all empty and need intensive psychological therapy.

If he doesn't know which is worse he should be out of society, and his job.

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

We are surrounded by sociopaths and serial killers.

Great work, everybody. How many people have to NOT be paying even a modicum of attention for something like this to happen? Cooked. We are beyond cooked. The laziness and stupidity are un-overcome-able.

no end to the charts that purport to show AI is the 'fastest adopted technology' ever. Putting aside the big Q's about whether that's even true, the flip side is left out For most of us, this tech has done nothing but make our lives worse, and make us feel bad. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/t...

It takes a lot more than 20 years to get smart. Exhibit A right here. He's still not there.

Cautionary tale: I asked Gemini to transcribe a 1-page PDF from The Morning Post from the early 1800s. I was interested in testing its accuracy. It hallucinated a full transcription of book review that doesn't exist and then invented false citations when I asked where the review was from. #AI

What happened to the "it's going to get better and better"?

They keep saying AI is inevitably going to get better and better. OK.