I started the day grumpy about generative AI, but articles like this just make it worse.

WAIT. They prompt engineered the AI tool to disregard informed consent and ethical concerns?

I have already been skeptical about Duolingo (as a company—the app is mostly not bad) for a while, but this is the sort of thing that makes me want to find an alternative for kiddo to use fast.

I’ve been waiting for 404 (or someone else) to report on this so that I could rage post it (and assign it in future classes). What a terrible breach of research ethics.

Chilling read. gift link

I would be more critical of generative AI than Punya, but this is a solid, important argument.

Very excited to watch this.

Everything in this article makes me sad.

4chan has led such an interesting life.

Solid post with damning critiques.

I’m sure this is more complicated than I appreciate, but what stands out to me is that every time I watch the Kentucky Derby, I’m overwhelmed by what a display of wealth it is. That’s not what I see when I look at public schools.

I haven’t paid much attention to gestures at all this before now, but this critique convinces me.

Creepy as hell. Gift link.

This project is one of my favorite things to come out of the program I teach in, and I’m glad Meghan’s work is getting recognition!

What moral bankruptcy. Gift link.

Incredible levels of bad faith manufactured outrage here. What a dumb world we live in.

This video has been on my mind all morning, and it makes me so sad.

I don’t personally need research funding, but I work in an academic ecosystem that’s highly dependent on it. Things aren’t looking good.

NCII enrages me, but I’m skeptical of this as a solution.

Sure this looks bad, but heaven forbid the U.S. lose AI leadership or whatever.

This sort of thing reminds me why I’m so entrenched in my skepticism of generative AI. There’s an uncritical insistence that the world needs AI, that America should be first in AI, and that we’re just going to have to increase energy production instead of ask ourselves if that’s worth the cost. Credit to Trump, I guess, for illustrating just how dangerous all these attitudes are.

Feeling optimistic!

Quelle tristesse !

Is this story ever going to get less dumb?

Devinez qui c’est qui a commandé un livre depuis la Suisse la semaine dernière ?

This got a dark chuckle from me.

I was already planning to voice skepticism about Apple partnerships with universities in a manuscript I’m writing, but now I’ve got this to cite as well.

I appreciate Masnick’s roundup of all the stupid things going on re: tariffs.

Well, if he’s going to ruin the economy, at least he can come by his strategy in the dumbest possible way.

I didn’t need to read a printer recommendation article today, but I’m so glad I did. The rage about the world we live in is great.

Studio Ghibli pictures are neat (legitimately! it’s one of the first generative AI things that’s tempted me!), but these deepfakes are the price we pay for them, and I think that’s too high a price.

I think this is a good example of why digital labor is a particularly salient critique of generative AI. Yes, Wikimedia content is licensed, but not as strictly as copyrighted works. Yet, ripping off of their work is arguably worse than grabbing some copyrighted works.

Good—if depressing—article.

Joli, ça !

I skipped over this article the first few times I saw it, but I think there’s some good stuff in here. Is defying Ghibli the point?

Masnick’s writing has never struck me as inflammatory or rushed. If he’s using this language, we should all be worried.