Used AI for a genuine grammar question. I don't think I like its answer. Particularly the start. And its conclusion doesn't seem relevant. But now I just don't know. AI is harmful to your knowledge. gemini.google.com/share/45de38...

This is absolutely brilliant 👏

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Reader alert - you may want to learn French. France has more than 3000 independent bookstores, more than all of the US. #reader #books www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Awesome bit of data that makes intuitive sense. Finland cut VAT on haircuts to see if cheaper prices would boost demand and jobs. Tax fell by €4, salons lowered prices by only €2 and kept the rest as profit. When VAT rose again, prices jumped by the full €4. Source: buff.ly/9vkSfvn

From the comic 'Tintin en Amérique', published in 1932, created by Hergé. American publishers were uneasy of this scene but Hergé nevertheless refused to remove it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_...

Plus the rest of the points in her question!

Looking forward to talking about this kind of thing at Language World next weekend: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/02/refl...

There are over 3,800 children locked up in ICE concentration camps (calling it what they are). Here are children who passed while in ICE custody. May they rest in peace. Kristi Noem must be held accountable before this number grows exponentially. #KillerNoem

GCSE kids absolutely love Spanish. A Level kids fascinated by the content and stunned by the pace of their own progress. Such a shame we have to keep their fate hidden from them. Feels like I am in a book by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Worth googling the Pazyryk carpet and Scythian gold. And then looking at how old it is.

Is this fraud?

There's a couple of things in this explanation of the order of pronouns that I really don't like:

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Even where it is now getting something right that it used to get wrong, if you ask it for clarification it will sooner rather than later start to go wrong again.

It contradicts itself on most of these:

Remember. AI isn't analysing French to come up with this. It's spouting nonsense the way it does for any question.

Admit it. You tried saying it to see:

@lacrapule.bsky.social You inspired me to re run some grammar questions in AI. It's got better. But it's still not great.

AI is still pretty rubbish.

Has AI for language learning got any better in the last 3 years? whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2023/08/ai-a...

AI. Ask it for sentences for your classes. Get sexism:

Perplexity gives examples that don't do anything to dispell the misconception that son means his and SA means her.

AI struggling with accents still:

Perplexity AI getting better at correcting French as long as you don't mind it mixing up accents a bit. www.perplexity.ai/search/pleas...

James Baldwin vs William F. Buckley debate. Cambridge University, 1965. Progress has been made, no doubt, but what is the quality of that progress? That, it seems to me, is the question for today. Please watch it in its entirety. #JamesBaldwin #America youtu.be/dTEr7Cwc4cE?...

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

NEW: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article.

The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today

Any other consumer product shown to have this effect would be recalled and the lawsuits would be plentiful and expensive. Clearly the AI companies are pricing multi-million dollar settlements for the contributory negligence leading to users' deaths into their bottom line.

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Kids at school are blaming Starmer for taking us into a war. They love Trump though.

Programme on radio 4 about AI in schools. We've been here before with turkey twizzlers. It's the next ultra processed food. It's maybe better than nothing. It's not better than the real thing. So much nonsense being talked about allowing us to be even more human.

It's National Careers Week! Did any of the careers on this list surprise you?

Important. A key thing to consider here is how the shame around intellectual disability remains as strong as ever. This is a driver of many of our problems. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Chatgpt much better now at correcting French. As long as you don't mind about it telling you about accents and diaeresis that don't exist. chatgpt.com/share/69a7d3...

Gemini is now slightly less sexist if you ask it for grammar sentences.

Gemini knows that son sa ses agrees with the thing not the person. But its examples don't do anything to make that clear. At least it has stopped substituting leurs for ses now.

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Radio 5 wake up to money assiduously calling migrants "expats" today. Because migrants are foreign. And Brits aren't foreign. So they can't be migrants.

Jared Polis, Gov of Colorado, just pardoned Tina Peters (a 2020 election conspiracist who broke the law) at the demand of Trump I’m shocked and sickened

Having a declaration of war means a state of war exists and no-one wants another country to be at war with the states. That sounds risky. Better to attack them without any actual war happening.

The Americans aren't using AI to plan their foreign policy are they?

I wrote about the story of the Four Color Theorem that I remember being told and Terence Tao and generative AI and some of my thoughts on teaching. www.peter-keep.com/2026-03-02-f...

Managed to re fix both my electricity bills at a lower rate than before. So yah boo sucks to you mister Donald Trump.

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Hey, Mr Advanced Warning. I know a Mrs Mash Potato who wants her past participle ending back please.