Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a per­mission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

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...

As stressed as cataloguing makes me, I find it fascinating how true it is that everyone catalogues differently. It's really more an art than a science. Take Marie Kondo’s new book Letter from Japan: NYPL: 306.0952 LAPL: 309.52 Multnomah: 305 SFPL: 952 Denver: 390.0952 My library: Bio Kondo

And this is why I stress that we cannot let genAI take over library processes. Try having genAI figure out how to catalogue that book. Humans use reasoning, our knowledge of the field, patron needs, and yes, our own biases and priorities. Cataloguing tells you a lot about a system's values.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

The boat:

Someone produced an infographic for telling students how to use genAI in their work, and apart from my fundamental disagreement with the content, they said "this is littered with errors because it's produced with AI" sorry why are you suddenly allowed to present work "littered with errors"

I've been having friendly and open "Why I dislike AI in most cases" conversations with friends and neighbors and it's surprising to me how much misunderstanding there is "But you use speech-to-text, isn't that AI?" "Not with this iOS it isn't." Poor digital literacy just helps this stupid timeline

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

"i used an improv comedy group to generate my data" "i had an improv group classify the outcomes" "methodology: first, i went to an improv comedy group" this is how you sound when you use LLMs for research

British Library chief executive, Rebecca Lawrence, quits midway through PCS strike. An interesting development.

One of the things I'm struggling with is that, when you speak out against acts that you believe in your heart are wrong, people will get angry with you. Their reasons may vary but the result is the same.

I get why it’s confusing, but “everything an LLM says is a lie, including the truth” is, I think, a good frame for dealing with them.

Happens All.The.Time. ChatGPT is a performance-enhancing drug. Students see others around them using it and finishing assignments so quickly that they think they'll suffer by comparison if they don't. I teach a compressed 6-week semester and the lack of time = almost everyone pushing that button.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

So grateful for the lovely neighbours we have who took the kids under their wing tonight, kids and their adults, just extremely nice feeling that they'll be given lifts and taken in and they'll help us get them to where they need to be, however chaotically

Absolutely inundated with guisers!

This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.

NO FRIENDS is exactly the kind of weird cool meticulous shit that AI boosters like to think it could do. And it just can't, because it takes effort.

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

“‘When it comes to AI, the [Dunning-Kruger effect] vanishes,’ study senior author Robin Welsch, a professor at Aalto University, said in a statement about the work. ‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence.’”

Our academic library system made AI a bullet point requirement of our annual performance review last year but it was very broad. Mine ended up being a libguide that covered its pitfalls, problems, and failures. I refuse to "incorporate it" into my workflows.

I got home to find that my wonderful husband had, on his way home from taking Dragon for her monthly injection, stopped by to pick up an oak gall ink painting of a curlew skull I'd been admiring in the local craft shop 🥹

Just given a lecture on generative AI and ethics that students described as "exceptional", "the most engaging lecture they've had all semester", and which they appreciated the touching on fascism and eugenics around for personal reasons so do you know what, I'm just going to keep on doing my thing

All this tells me is that Clarivate (pfeh) have identified Dunning-Kruger effect in senior librarian respondents (and I can hypothesise why)

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

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Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I'm sorry but what in the everloving heck (no energy for alt text sorry)

I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.

I've graduated up the parenting ladder! Smallest said he hates me for the first time 💚

Nobody in authority ever suggested that "Essay mills are just an inevitable part of modern life, you should change your teaching-methods to circumvent them". They fucking MADE THEM ILLEGAL.

I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today. If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....

It's useful to recognise that, just 3 years ago, the UK government made it a specific CRIMINAL OFFENCE to procure a live person to complete university coursework for a student, but that government, and all major institutions, are now saying the use of a machine to complete such work is inevitable.

"What this means for humanists is stark. The very articles and books we painstakingly produce are being fed, legally and lucratively, into AI systems that will soon replicate, and perhaps replace, our intellectual labour." www.abc.net.au/religion/how...

five years ago open days up and down the country, subjects like history giving talks about “unparalleled range of choice at [name of university]”. presumably in the near future the pitch will be more like: “we still offer some history!”

I've been having real struggles since I got some Chelsea boots