Sad and alarming. Now for alternatives to “do evil” and use other platforms for “do no evil”

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I’m embarrassed there was a point where I desired to be a Google “innovator” Was the “do no evil” era just lies and marketing?

Awesome shirt!

"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No" "...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user." This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong. #AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

This. #tlsky #schoollibraries #education

This is so good. A few choice quotes -- 'AI is a "normal technology,"... But what we have come to see as "normal" is, in fact, utterly abhorrent, abysmal. Yiyun Li writes a lot in her book on learning to inhabit the abyss of grief. What does it mean to normalize the abyss?'

i receive so many emails from fellow researchers working in the AI accountability space looking to collaborate, join my lab, etc… while i appreciate each effort in this space, i am not interested in any effort focused on: 1. helping users (this puts the onus on users) navigate existing systems 1/

Just 2 hours 'til this tonight's #TLSkyChat, y'all... not that I'm counting or anything! Wanna start thinking about this week’s topic in advance? Check out tlskychat.com! See you at 8pmET/5pmPT! #Edusky #TLSky

I'm seeing a lot of Gemini Certified Educators in my social media feeds. This is a good time to think critically about Gemini, how it is developed, and how it could impact (possibly harm) K-12 education. Be careful what you attach your name to. www.criticalinkling.com/p/gemini-cer...

"AI systems built to “flag” books are not neutral. They replicate the worldview they are built on. And right now, that worldview is hostile to many of the students we are supposed to serve." A great follow-up to our Fanbase Weekly conversation. aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

To those sharing visuals (art, comics, photos, etc) that they didn't create themselves: please include credit/tag the HUMAN CREATOR. Only share if you know that the person who created it won't mind. Don't just screenshot someone else's work to boost your own social media. #PicturesMeanBusiness

This piece by @shiraovide.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com examines the Q: why are people so pessimistic about AI? But there’s no exploration of perhaps the biggest reason—it’s a tool that enriches the worst people in society & drowns truth (& accountability) in irrelevance. Strip mines our souls

Who's up for a short thread demonstrating just how wrong this claim is by Mistral's CEO, using research by @rtommccoy.bsky.social (an co-authors) regarding crossword puzzles? Just me? Well whatever, let's dive into a mini-exploration of the Embers of Autoregression and why they singe...

It’s time to opt out. proton.me/blog/turn-of... Thinking of leaving spaces that are not trying to reduce the slop and spread of synthetic text/images. Back to LMNET? State listserv? #tlsky

Common Sense… so just Meta? What about the others? p2a.co/UU59bDp Let’s protect adults too. #TLsky #edusky

As we learn more and more about the costs associated with GenAI, I continue to wonder how institutions and their leadership decide that yes, incorporating anything OpenAI produces into the lives of educators and students is worth the harms.

I *really* appreciate how @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social responded when she learned the viral "Moms for Liberty won none of their (contested) elections!" was misinformation. This was classy and helpful for those who also spread that without any verification. www.instagram.com/p/DQxSrAhkXEw/

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Important: #TLSky #EduSky understand results of Mahmoud v Taylor Supreme Court June '25 decision. It only affirms a parent’s right to opt their child out of classroom lessons NOT to decide what books their children will find in the library. Read more @oif.bsky.social www.oif.ala.org/what-emmahmo...

There are a LOT of little things you can do around your library with the right tools - here are a few of 'em! "Building Your Literal Tool Kit: Hand Tools to Improve Your School Library Experience" #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat knowledgequest.aasl.org/building-you...

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦 #bird #StressDoodle #StressDoodling

🙏🏼 Far too many seem to believe that AI represents our future (whether we want it or not), & fail to come to grips with the fact that AI is only capable of recycling the past…& almost completely on artifacts of the past gathered & used without consent. Lack of consent is central to the enterprise.

"We can stop. We can pause. We can demand something better. And we must. Because there is a body count." via @lollardfish.bsky.social www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c... #TLSky #EduSky #AcademicSky

Books are Magical! #TLsky

Some new digital brushes for doodling! #StressDoodle #StressDoodling Bonus… zero gen ai 😅

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”

🔴CALL TO ACTION to fight AI! Takes 10 seconds!🔴 Please sign and share this petition to send to legislators in California to support the AI Transparency Act. It would force AI companies to provide a list of work they trained on to IP holders. ANYONE can sign! actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

Interesting work coming from a certain artists' group.

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

And this: article cites a recent @cdt.org survey, where, "17% of teachers reported that student information such as grades, attendance and discipline information was shared with immigration enforcement, and some school staff were reporting members of the school community to ICE of their own accord."

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

"Once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish.” Librarians are at the front lines of the war on knowledge. They speak out here.

We don't share the same values, either personally or professionally, if you think AI bots belong in the library. 📚 www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

I’m sure it’s just coincidence, but it really seems like once a publication partners with an ai company, they start featuring a lot more stories like this.

1/ 🚨Our NEW study paints a shockingly bleak picture of how teens view the press. It also illustrates that there is a chasm between what teens think is going on in newsrooms versus what happens every day at credible outlets. 🔗 Summary + full report: go.newslit.org/TeensNewsMedia

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For those who do care about what's happening in the world, but who sometimes need an #Uplift: bsky.app/profile/debb... Hand-curated by yours truly. Criteria unapologetically subjective, but esp: word nerds • acts of kindness • quirky • obscure interest deep-dives • alt-text

I hid 300 mini dinosaurs in the media center today for Dino-vember. Let the chaos begin! #SchoolLibrary #TLSky #EduSky

Favorite @adobe.com @adobeexpress.adobe.com feature! #TLsky #AdobeExpress

They were not fooled, tricked, manipulated, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. They posted the videos because it matches their ideology and illustrates their preferred narrative. That’s it.

Teaching about AI? Here's a new zine from the AI + Planetary Justice Alliance "meant to help readers move from thinking about AI as a purely digital, cloud-based technology to understanding it as something rooted in physical elements."

I wasn't going to post this rant as I'm kind of sick of this & because of this, but I'm also I guess exhausted facing this often alone at home: the sniggering at women academics who have opinions even from other women, although often non-academics, and mostly from men on the dimensions of our 1/n

From the beginning, I've been fascinated with the blanket belief in Gen #AI outputs and using it for "facts". Thread including @unesco.org article #TLSky #EduSky

A little-known nonprofit has been lying to news publishers while funneling millions of paywalled articles to tech companies for AI training. Read my investigation in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"This initiative will give teachers from every region of Iceland [...] access to advanced AI tools as the country explores how artificial intelligence can transform education." Has there ever before been products sold where customers* must figure out the use? www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper. He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.