Time to pass the plate Skybrarians 📚📜

In the contexts of the humanities (and the social sciences) the AI is presented as a REPLACEMENT for the scholar and the skills they develop. You can now have GenAI write your essays, provide input via stolen data, correct your grammar, all things cultivated into students by humanities scholars.

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

this is how most university and many library land convos sound. They seem to presume that if we don't like it, we just need to learn about it. I know how it works and its crap. Please stop trying to make me eat a shit sandwich

So we know what really works, but we just keep pouring money into bigger police budgets

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

one worked in a steel mill and the other robbed a bank...

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I don't know why anyone would trust the AI's ability to tell me what the article is about when there is zero evidence that that is a task it can do successfully.

this guy's smart and he found it useful, what does that mean for the rest of us? well it's still blood soaked machinery you rent from fascists so it's not affecting my analysis really

If you are convinced that an AI program can write better than you, teach better than you, design curriculum better than you, etc., I gently suggest that this might say more about your own skills than anything useful.

whoops

“But what if we gave the One Ring better training?”

This is such a loss for the community.

so the tech developed by racist tech bros is racist? Quelle surprise

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I had a student submit a paper with plausible sounding articles from a friend. They did not exist. My friend's name, a title that matched up with their area, and a journal that was also plausible.

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

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So we're going to create your profile using AI. What if we don't want that? Ok, but you can turn it off. so can you make it opt in rather than opt out, that seems to solve things? we're not going to do that so just mark your calendar for when this takes effect so you can turn it off. ....thanks

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

Wow today is going to be weeks long

Partner just asked what book I would get sworn in on if elected. I'm not sure. What book would you get sworn in on?

“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”

be weird Make stuff Fuck the machines

"But AI can only examine the past. It can only see the trends that happened, not the trends that go forward... It understands things that exist, not things that don’t, and therefore, in a job based somewhat considerably on people’s imagination producing original material, it will shit the bed."

Same

adding this to my reading list

"They found the coats on Thursday morning. Fifteen winter coats. Good ones, not garbage. Hanging on the chain-link fence outside Lincoln Elementary.No note. No explanation. Just coats zipped up like ghosts waiting for bodies. Principal Morris freaked out. Called the police. "Could be stolen"

wanted to buy another Subaru but won`t until they remove thee new iPad sized display

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

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Deck the halls, babes

my hobby is literally picking up the trash in the park near my house

Campus ai guy, `we`re going to integrate into everything` but also `maybe don't input confidential info in it` Like, my dude, seriously?

Ask your friendly academic librarian about all the times we tried to tell you that what we do is important and you should fund it. You get the services you pay for, friends.

This is so effed

looks pointedly at fellow library folk

yup

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a wonderful book

what the absolute fucking fraud is this?

“People have every right to own property, but we must balance that with the demands of burglars to steal that property and sell it.” Fuck off. And tell your loser tech mates to fuck off while you’re at it. Cheers. Ta. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...