As one of the authors of this thought I’d share a bit about how we got here and how you can do what we’ve done at you institution. Over the two years I’ve been at the University of Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly concerned by fellow academics uncritically using LLMs, especially OpenAIs’s ChatGPT.

The Epstein case I'm afraid reveals something many academics don't want to see. Universities can be rapacious money machines, obsessed with money and status for their own sakes, heedless of risk, oftentimes willing to turn a blind eye when they shouldn't. apnews.com/article/epst...

I'm prepping my spring NLP course, but I've not been following NLP research too closely lately. Luckily this primer popped up on LinkedIn, so I'm asking the hive mind... POLL: How crucial is it for me to cover Apeezies & Cogematic? a) Very b) Less crucial than Shangriant d) It's too cutting edge

The budget levy on international fees seems to confirm that the UK government is, for reasons that defy economic logic, determined to break the backs of its own world-class universities just as the US government does the same. Now why would a government want to destroy the modern university I wonder

which I know from personal inspection. What it had was the biggest (n-gram) language model anyone had yet built. @nsaphra.bsky.social et al. have a nice paper on this analogy. arxiv.org/abs/2311.05020

From the University of Woeville: Alternative FAQs for British academics facing redundancy juliecupples.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/f...

A sobering read for anyone working on machine translation.

@nsaphra.bsky.social is awesome and so much fun to work with. Go work with her!

To understand the future of AI, take a look at the failings of Google Translate theconversation.com/to-understan...

Ruby Ostrow, Adam Lopez LLMs Reproduce Stereotypes of Sexual and Gender Minorities https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05926

📕 ⬇️ My thesis on 🚫unargmaxable outputs is online! Check it out if you want to learn more about how output layers constrain what neural networks can and cannot predict 👉 era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/...