Stickers! I'll be bringing these to the #MLA26 panel @caramartamessina.com & I put together on Making Space for GenAI Refusal. Credit to @betterimagesofai.bsky.social (Jamillah Knowles & Digit / Clarote & AI4Media) for the two images, to Bonnie Lenore Kyburz for inspiring mansplAIning, +

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

New publication out: "Weathering the Rhetorical Climates of AI." I'm really excited that it's open access! publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Academics are making the decision to shove unpublished original research that isn’t even theirs into the plagiarism machine. I can’t.

The TikTok algorithm is about to be handed to right-wing billionaires.

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What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org

There are still a lot of smart people who seem to be surprised and upset that they can't make AI stop making shit up. Like that's literally what it does. "I told it not to do that!" Cool. But you it can't understand right? You're not giving it "instructions". It's just words.

After controlling shareholders failed to take Grindr private, and controversies over data and the banning of the phrase “No Zionists,” Grindr’s CEO opens up about AI, privacy, and big expansion plans. www.wired.com/story/grindr...

It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.

Remember, this is same chatbot being deployed on PUBLIC schools in El Salvador thanks to a partnership with Bukele. Does it help to visualize those dehumanizing photos with Noem proudly posing in front of caged men in CECOT to understand the project? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

They're not just requiring that students learn how to use the bullshit machine. They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI. Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?

The most important thing to oligarchs is that people come to accept chatbots as a source of truth. It’s the fascist imperative. This is the only way it makes sense to install these systems in spaces where they routinely fail at the ostensible task.

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

The creepiest losers in the world are trying to cram the most uncool garbage down the world's collective throat and I don't understand why they think we would want this and why they wouldn't at least hire someone beloved to hawk it. I don't want Chat GPT I don't want Sora I don't want Potter merch.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of new House Democrats' AI commission announced by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

The sharp divide between what I hear from students about AI and what administrators say about AI makes it impossible to believe anyone in admin has ever spoken to one of our students

"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..." www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Christine Choy, a pioneering Asian-American documentary filmmaker, died December 7 at age 73. Choy was one of the first Asian-American women nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Calling it now: by this time next year, we'll learn that GenAI.mil aggregated a bunch of unclassified data points on NIPR and output classified material, creating a security incident. Separately, if I were a threat actor, I'd be all into the prompt histories for any compromised user.

"GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data." Just to note that NCTE also announced a new Google/Gemini partnership today -- GenAI training for K-12 teachers.

Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.

Chaski Review's first digital issue is now live on our website! Please enjoy our inaugural issue! It's a joy to host a home to the work of these talented writers and translators. We are lucky to have their trust. chaskireview.com/issue-001

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Under Practical Help, here is a document I update periodically mean to help teachers (K-12 but works beyond) resist AI mania. It links to many of the pieces in your bibliography and others.

The press release says Google Cloud's Gemini for Government will be the first instance available on the internal platform. As we’ve covered, because Google search results are also consuming AI content that contains errors, it’s become nearly unusable for regular consumers and researchers alike.

the reason to teach reading and writing in high school is not “college readiness”

"GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data." Just to note that NCTE also announced a new Google/Gemini partnership today -- GenAI training for K-12 teachers.

normal country in a normal timeline www.404media.co/pete-hegseth...

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

Still so excited for everyone who showed up to this yesterday! It was stunning to see a sea of creatives overwhelm that tiny hearing. We had an overflow room of artists and the line for 30 second public commentary literally had to be cut off! You made a huge difference yesterday. Thank you!

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As I was just saying. They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.

I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality. people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

being in any way impressed by hanania or seeing him as a voice worth hearing is definitive evidence that your brain is a perfect sphere

I want to stress here that Tracy Beth Høeg, new head of CDER—seen here being promoted by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax group Robert Kennedy Jr. founded—has zero expertise in vaccines. She is a sports medicine doctor.

Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

"Not everyone is keen on edu-bots. Only 22% of American school-district heads believe that AI harms students’ critical-thinking skills, but 61% of parents [and] 55% of high-school students believe so... the least happy with AI are those whose schools use it most" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Black women told you this in 2018.

Worth adding to conversation: already pre-Trump, a key instrument in the idea that of 'deporting criminals' was to use partnerships with JAILS to identify undocumented immigrants when first booked or arrested (over anything). But that was mostly happening *pre-trial* — just on police suspicion.

Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone. The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps