It is a heartening thing to see more academics dropping habits of being overcautious in their writing and instead speaking the truth clearly and forcefully. Stank as style

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

This seems reasonable to me. We tolerate typos introduced by human error, but it's easy to read your paper over and miss some typos. Not realizing your paper includes AI-generated artifacts like citing fake papers or LLM meta comments is a different level of negligence.

This skeet's woefully limited imagination is why I keep refusing LLM-type AI. Books are the site of self-interactivity, and the act of reading is inherently dialogic (more than that: I argue with myself AND the text). If they can't see that, it's not wonder they fall to the machine. #resistAI

Fascinating piece, that tries to reconsider the role of reading in an age of mechanical reproduction (so to speak) #resistAI #noAI

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THIS RIGHT HERE. #resistAI

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This is horrifying and I think AI shouldn't be anywhere near classrooms, but I do think conversations need to be had in academia about why students are being forced to read dense and inaccessible work they're clearly not incentivized to read, instead of training scholars to be more engaging writers

"Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth (Bender, Gebru et al., 2021; Bender and Koller, 2020)." Het pleit niet voor onze universiteiten dat zelfs zij de output van LLM's als ChatGPT niet zien voor wat het is: rommel.

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Not the only reason, but this is rocketing toward the top o' the charts. #resistAI

I do get nervous when I see this, on logging into Bsky, because I don't get noticed often (which is excellent!). Should've known it's just from being a good citizen about calling out "AI" misuse. #resistAI

(not) sorry to keep hammering the point, but this really is the thing: as AI-generated video becomes more sophisticated, it will only become harder for non-experts to tell what's real and what isn't based on incongruous details, but an old-fashioned "source??" will always give the sloppers away.

(I posted this earlier but it had some glitches on my website so am doing it again.) theresakishkan.com/2025/12/19/t...

A non-existent paper attributed to ‪Ben Williamson‬ has already been cited 42 times. It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it. @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.

Congratulations, everyone still on the side of "GenAI is helping." What'll it take to change your minds? #resistAI (This thread: journal editor Ben found himself reviewing a submission citing two of "his" articles that he didn't write, and found a significant web of citations to them. Slop!)

Guess I'll post this again

For something to count as "my work," do I need to have written & revised it myself, and developed the ideas by seeking out, attempting to understand, & appropriately crediting the prior work of others? Formerly: YES, DUH! Now: "different colleagues will have different views"

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

"The psychologist and cognitive scientist Iris van Rooij has argued that the emergence of AI “slop” across scholarly resources portends nothing less than “the destruction of knowledge” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I am an old man, @mozilla.org, and I was happy to sit in my rocking chair and use Firefox until sunset. But if you insist on choking this browser with GenAI bloat, I will face God and walk backwards into Linux.

How will AI strengthen Ottawa’s electricity grid? By providing mega amounts of plagiarized electricity?

"It may seem...that the cluster of technologies marketed as 'AI' is entirely new and that, logically, objection to it must likewise be unheard-of...But protesting it has a long history. Inspired by..this photo, we are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education."

This here is SUCH a wise piece about AI and language, by @marcusolang.substack.com (which I say both as a writing instructor, and as someone sent to a British-style boarding school from a tiny BC town) #resistAI marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

"We face a social dilemma around the role of these empathy machines. Those who are most cognitively vulnerable may turn to these tools when what they most need is a flesh-and-blood human who will care for them, not sycophantically, but with thick empathy arising from the experience of being human."

Controversial take: if you cite a fake paper in your journal article, you should have to retract it.

First they cut arts in schools to make way for standards and efficiency. And now we hear we need machines to come up with new ideas for us because we can’t do it. Just say No to these people. It’s dangerous nonsense. And should be disregarded and treated only with scorn.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

theresakishkan.com/2025/12/15/m... Alt Text: bright red, yellow, and blue patchwork quilt on a clothesline, green branches behind

more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum

Why Disney just put $1b into OpenAI to shake down everyone else for licenses www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBbV... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251212-why... - podcast time: 5 min 30 sec pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/12/w... - text with updated thumbnail image

When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

So we're taking away from actual, needed physical infrastructure investments to create plagiarism machines. Got it.

What happens when you get sucked in by AI hype and don't understand how chatbots work; errors are not exceptions but how these models work. We can only hope that the Canadian government will wake up and stop repeating AI industry marketing speak and start paying attention to research?

BC developed a new flood strategy after the devastating impacts of the 2021 atmospheric river But it's still not funded and the province decided against committing new $$ to it in September Now the Fraser Valley's flooding again #bcpoli

During the last atmospheric river event, I made a quilt to guide my thinking about water, its boundaries, its power. Tonight, as I hear about states of emergency and evacuation alerts in the Pacific Northwest, I unfolded the quilt to look the sinuous red lines, the embedded salmon.

Just AGONY at the dunderheaded quotes in this piece from people I want to think of as wise: "Whether this platform flies or not, they have already started a wonderful discussion. That already is quite commendable," e.g., or "the automated science community" 🤢 #resistAI

I mean, her target market doesn't read, or value artists or creators (not that she is one, not really), so. But I did expect more Christmas purchasing, enough that it'd be infesting the charity shops a year from now.

Thinking today of everyone, human and non-, that'll soon be facing floodwaters in and around the Sumas area. #bcstorm #atmosphericriver

Billionaires want you to be hopeless. Keep going, even if out of spite lmao vt.tiktok.com/ZSP6gdEBT/

They evil: "When OpenAI was created in 2015, it pledged to 'advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.' That seems increasingly untenable. Sooner or later, the investors ... will push for returns." #resistAI www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/08/1...

BREAKING: Officials in Sumas, Wash., immediately south of Abbotsford will be sounding their flood siren that warns residents to evacuate. This is a sign of likely flooding in Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Imperialist pirates

"I do not 'believe in' liberal education. I know it’s real [&] I have seen it happen. I don’t have to believe in something that exists. Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that."

Squirrel don't care

This is bullshit normalization of the misinformation machine: per the graphics and the report, these figures are based on a survey of 986 people people who've tried GenAI. Of those, 90% have done so for leisure. IT IS NOT 90% OF EVERYONE, OMG go away. #resistAI