I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

This is funny, because it confirms that LLM-powered chatbots are easily jailbroken (guardrails are a sham) and it makes Anthropic admit that despite their scaremongering hype marketing, Mythos is not some super hacker. It can spot simple, known exploits like any other model.

@emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social Please consider giving this the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 treatment…

I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>

Jammer dat Koen Haegens niet wat kritischer is hier. GenAI bedrijven richten zich op programmeren omdat het de enige functie is die enigszins fatsoenlijke output genereert, niet omdat de tools zichzelf daarmee snel kunnen verbeteren richting AGI. Dat is pure hype. www.groene.nl/artikel/wach...

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

Once you have a basic understanding of how these LLM-powered chatbots work this shouldn’t be a surprise. It is surprising though that there still doesn’t seem to be widespread alarm about the dangers to democracy these tools pose…

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I desire more in life than to be the “don’t summarise with AI”-guy on bluesky 😅 but reports like this keep coming in, so I’ll repeat ad nauseam, don’t summarise with ‘AI’! www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @maartenp.bsky.social

The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The entanglement of Silicon Valley with politics and other public domains such as education should worry us all, especially in the age of GenAI.

This set is a celebration of electronic music, community, creativity and life. Amazing: youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM?...

Wanneer weet je dat de periode die je beschrijft de geschiedenis zal veranderen en wanneer weet je zeker dat iets een voetnoot zal blijken te zijn? Na 7,5 jaar stop ik als politiek verslaggever. Lees hier mijn afscheidsstuk: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Zijn dit bewegende beelden van Den Uyl of een met (GenAI) geanimeerde foto? En de foto van Aletta Jacobs (de foto op haar Wikipedia-pagina) lijkt ook te bewegen. Als het GenAI is dan is dat heel jammer en onnodig, wat mij betreft.

in the end where claude gives him an answer on moratoriums that he doesn’t like, so he pushes back and it gives him the answer he wants is a pretty pure example of the reinforcement bias and sycophancy we talk about with chatbots, but you get the impression he convinced claude he was actually right

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Arnold's editorial team is modeling critical thinking and I am here for it.

Almost daily reports now on how AI-generated summaries are wreaking havoc in academia, journalism, law, and elsewhere. Today, how a prominent Belgian journalist wrote 15 articles containing fake quotes, taken from AI summaries (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Never use GenAI tools to summarise or verify information. It’s unreliable and will introduce misinformation into the public sphere, muddying discussions. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Heel mooi essay van @chrisjulien.bsky.social dit: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Is this the future we want? nymag.com/intelligence...

Hi 👋 to new followers who followed me after reading the article on AI-generated summaries. You might also find this earlier article I wrote interesting. I wrote it after visiting a Critical AI Literacy symposium, organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science and colleagues.

This is one of the most reasoned & persuasive arguments for not allowing LLMs anywhere near reading & writing intensive classrooms. We can 100% choose not to outsource our reading & writing labor to a bot, and model for our students why they should do the same. #EduSky www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

“When you read and summarize a text, you create the neural connections necessary to memorize and apply the information well in an exam, experiment, or research paper. Generating it with a click is a harmful form of cognitive offloading and will erode these skills.”

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Check out this short piece I wrote, based on my recent visit to the Critical AI Literacy symposium at Radboud University, organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @olivia.science and others: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...