Nycturne @nycturne@talkedabout.social
I just had to email my 16-year-old's teacher to explain that he did not use AI for an assignment. (I watched him complete it!)
I also included multiple references for why no one should be using AI detectors in education.
TurnItIn is making $$$$ by lying to schools.
I made this a few months before I became more active on mastodon so I don't think I ever posted it here. free wallpaper celebrating the cause of our collective employment here on infosec dot exchange
@harper84 @rebeccawatson I really wish everyone could look at this issue without feeling they have to take a “side”. Israelis and Palestinians can both be condemned, both can be defended, both are suffering and dying. Most of both groups just want to live in peace.
thanks to this teen who alerted me to one of the few uses for #chatgpt that I find entertaining
https://ohai.social/@thatandromeda/110311879852062343
Integrating a chatbot w no connection to truth into search, a service people use to learn new info, is a wretchedly bad call that will likely have serious consequences.
IMO we'll look back at this moment with the same cringe we now reserve for NFTs.
Which is not to say "AI" and NFTs are analogous. But the religious fervor and willingness to say any old ungrounded thing in service of hyping this tech is drawing from the same Web3 well.
How Scholastic and other publishers who sell to K-12 schools are sanitizing stories, removing references to racism. This has been going on for a while, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall was the first author to step forward and call out the disturbing implications. (She also refused to let Scholastic remove the word "racism" from her story about Japanese internment camps.) #bookstodon #education https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/scholastic-book-racism-maggie-tokuda-hall.html
“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”
Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
Why AI really is dangerous to Society...
'what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history... unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.'
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein
US senators call Tesla’s safety review a “sham,” demand answers from Musk
Senators accuse Tesla of hiding “untold number” of complaints.
There are so many AI-generated fake sites these days that they will probably affect future internet-trained text generators.
It could actually make older internet data more valuable.
I called it "low botground data" and then my friend yelled at me.
#LowBotgroundData #StillCallingItThat
