Do you find it difficult to understand why LLMs — like ChatGPT and the like — are a form of ‘automated plagiarism’? Take 3 min and listen to this excellent explanation by @gwenvarley.bsky.social youtu.be/1ON-FJHq9aM?... (h/t @olivia.science) 1/🧵

comprehensive answer to "Is it OK to use AI?" by @gwenvarley.bsky.social an excellent one for students and those mired in the terminological and ethical disarray to start to think more clearly

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

I always hesitate to promote my German-language stuff here because I know y’all are more international than that BUT if you speak German and you’re at all interested in the science behind artificial sweeteners, then boy do my colleagues and I have a lineup for you today:

Me and the girls celebrating International Women's Day

we bag on the boomers a lot, but they dealt with their mid-life crisis in a good and normal way (buying a red sports car and having an affair with their secretary) whereas Gen X is all "maybe this next genocide will finally make them bring back the square spongebread cafeteria pizza"

"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."

This has been my strict policy for a while, and it’s been working wonders. We all live in a bubble. Every social network is a bubble, and composed of further bubbles still. You can’t avoid echo chambers online anyway. So don’t be scared to block with abandon.

Sorry, deleted earlier post because of a typo

For those keeping track, we’re at the “secretary of war announces genocide” stage of the US descent into fascism.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Let’s have some fun together in Tübingen! 😁 Will I see you there?

When someone asks you what a woman is, ask them to tell you what water is first and watch them struggle. If they say “water is an element,” laugh at them for subscribing to medieval, unscientific ideas.

Trump‘s responses have become indistinguishable from what Satan would say if he was president. If you still know a Trump voter, it’s not too late to yell hurtful insults at them until they’re out of your life forever.

The Trump regime firing Kristi Noem like

It wasn't "cancel culture" when women and people of color got used up, silenced, and dismissed before their careers even began. It only became "cancel culture" when powerful abusers started having established careers momentarily inconvenienced by revelations of what they'd done.

by Gwendolyn Brooks ❤️‍🩹

Great code is extremely well structured. Great writing challenges conventional structure to create something new.

He seems barely conscious, let alone aware of what's going on

Ab Sonntag geht’s wieder rund! Wo sonst bekommt man knallharte Wissenschaft auf diese Art präsentiert? Das gibt’s nur bei MAITHINK X, mit unserer neuen Staffel ab 8. März 🤩 (Und Hand hoch wer mich in dem Clip entdeckt hat ☝🏻)

Recently I started reading “Life‘s Edge“ by @carlzimmer.com and it’s reminding me again of how Carl has been one of my very favorite science writers for 15 years now (ever since his “A Planet of Viruses.” Working as a science writer myself for the last 5 years has given me new appreciation. 1/2

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

One of my books was published in Korean a few months back and I just received my first piece of fan mail from Korea 🇰🇷🤩 감사합니다 !

“At last, a just war” they say about this:

I listened to a podcast recently where the podcasters were against using AI for art and writing… but what disturbed me is they were like “I accept it can think, I can accept it’s intelligent, but it can’t produce creative work because it can’t feel.” Why the hell do they believe that it “thinks?!”

This. So much this. What enshittifies everything right now is not LLM use itself, but a general lack of knowledge about what LLMs are and what they do

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Before this past year, “The last time more people left the U.S. than moved in, according to Census historical statistics, it was 1935 and the destination of choice was the Soviet Union.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

Slightly tipsy and watching Twin Peaks AMA but actually don’t AMA

This 1,000%. It's annoying that I'm expected to start all my rants with "While there are legitimate uses for AI"

One of the things that's alarming about this is that some (most?) of the tips from GenAI about a hiking trip may be fine. But if one is wrong, you can find yourself in serious trouble. And one *will* be wrong. It's mathematically inevitable. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This is like trying to convince us that AI can exercise on our behalf. That... defeats the whole entire purpose of the activity. I'm sorry that these AI scammers are this disconnected from their own humanity, but can they please stop making it our problem

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The tech people in rich Western World gets to enjoy their Mechanical Turk, while the rest of us suffer.

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

That decision was made in 2016, and then confirmed in 2024.

This is my thought about a lot of gen AI applications. You let ChatGPT write your wedding vows? Your college essay? Your job application? You clearly don't actually want to get married / graduated / hired. Have you considered maybe trying to find happiness somewhere else?

what even is the fucking point

Aren’t we lucky that universities haven’t gotten carried away with the hype and taken a careful approach to AI? Imagine if they had decided to push AI into our teaching and work life! All praise to our leaders in higher ed for not falling for hype, hallelujah and praise the goddess

It's just like this now. Every single shooting that happens gets blamed on trans people. It spreads like wildfire even when it's a blatant lie.

Delilah Bon never misses www.youtube.com/shorts/SFtwX...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

I feel like there’s a constellation of choices in between these two things.

“Hmmm sure, what that officer did looks pretty bad, but let’s see what the white supremacist’s fascism box has to say about it.”

Can’t wait for this douche to go bankrupt.

Countdown to TACO is ticking. 😉

Go on and raise them to 200, dipshit, it’s not like anyone wants to do business with you anyway. Do your little tantrum dance and leave me the hell alone.