Cops forced to explain why improv comedy generated police report claimed officer transformed into frog

We have a new year’s tradition of making hats. Here’s mine for this year. Happy New Year, y’all. 💕🥳

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

"i have moderate views on LLMs"

I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Just a reminder to consider the Library of Babel Group. We have projects afoot and opportunities to network with like-minded folks. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Hallelujah!

“This ruling is a clear affirmation that AI cannot be deployed as a shortcut around union rights, ethical journalism, or human judgment.” @pen-guild.bsky.social

Got to play on the same bill (and for one song, the same stage) with my hubby for the first time in over a decade. Live music, all ages show. Young people at one point breakdancing to old-time music. ❤️

A pleasant surprise in our Northern sky here in Lawrence, KS. I've caught auroras through my camera but this was also visible to the naked eye (though not as bright as via my iPhone, here)

Hit the breaking point this morning with Michigan after hearing about their planned data center in Ypsi. Put all my in-progress posts on the back burner to write this (which I have also sent to UMGiving). substack.com/@kconrad/not...

"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart…This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.”

me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you? students: no AI I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion

Here's some of what I've learned.

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Great talk by @sashamtl.bsky.social suggesting alternative AI futures. Excited to see one of my @betterimagesofai.bsky.social images up there on the big TED talk screen.

A front-yard haunted house on our street so we’re now a destination neighborhood. We gave kids a choice: candy, mandarin oranges, raisins, or potatoes. WE WENT THROUGH A 10-LB BAG OF POTATOES IN 45 MINUTES (followed closely by oranges. 40 of them.) 🤣

Great job alert! 👇

“Film hasn’t bounced back since the strikes and games are experiencing even more layoffs with companies pivoting to AI. Independent artists and freelancers especially are finding it hard to make ends meet.”

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The resistance finding a home is big, but finding each other has been life-affirming. Join us in the Library of Babel, friends. Check out what we're about at the link. #NoSurveillance #Humanity #AIRefusal #AIinEdu #EduSky #AIResistance #Luddites #WriterSky www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

"The Library of Babel Group is a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression." Join us. www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Color me surprised. (And I just want to reiterate that Gavin Newsom continues to look like a corporate villain from a bad movie. Love this picture.) www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

F*** no. Next question.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

Preach

A Perplexity ad I was served this evening. Discuss.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

"we are now seeing the emergence of the single platform solution, notably from big tech companies like Microsoft, with apps to cover all aspects of school life—from precise monitoring of student learning through to expense management and human resources" - great paper by @lucipangrazio.bsky.social

“There are about a dozen companies that specialize in school surveillance…That monitoring reaches into students’ lives beyond school hours, with all but two of those companies monitoring students around the clock.”

"platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling" doi.org/10.1080/1743...

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.” Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

There is a whole micro-industry in edtech market valuation that aims to support investors to price their investments - and humongous figures like the $8t conjured up by big financial orgs surely help prop up edtech markets even when markets look bad www.holoniq.com/notes/edtech...

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Ruha Benjamin, online Tuesday Sept 30 at 7 Central! Click to register. If you're in Lawrence, it's at Liberty Hall, free and open to the public (no tickets required). (Bonus: Conversation 10 - 11 am Oct 1 at the Hall Center) calendar.ku.edu/event/ruha-b...

Don’t forget that they needed new guidelines because they were caught with “guidelines” that allowed for their chatbot to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."

my faith in humanity is renewed

“(…) what gets repeatedly ignored is this fundamental paradox: GenAI’s architecture absolutely depends on consciously taken actions that would stand in violation of any of our institutions’ academic-integrity policies.” @thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 2/n

i don't even know what to say anymore about these kinds of stories. what more does it take for AI enthusiasts to finally wince?