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 ?