Marie Becker
@alulaauburn.bsky.social
Reading, writing and herding cats. Trying to advocate for students and humanist pedagogy in a tiny flailing way. She/her. AI-critical, chronically ill, trying to build shelter out of books and yarn.
A Pope is a Pope and will always believe many things I do not believe, but that does not change how absolutely bang-on correct and beautifully articulated this is.
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhy is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.
404 Media@404media.co · 5mo agoFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
I just want to know what women who weren't "chosen" when we were younger / "in our prime" were supposed to do with our lives... not get jobs? Not buy homes? Not live our lives? Not be peaceful? Not hydrate and mind our business? If the cultural script has failed, certainly it's not on us.
You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...
You Should Never Be The Most Sycophantic Participant In A Conversation With A Chatbot | Defector
Is this AI psychosis? You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest…
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I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.
more seriously: both an adult life spent teaching and an adult life spent on message boards and sites like this one have underscored to me that reading and communicating about reading is very much not a trivial skill. the recent tech developments further underscore this for me
I love that my institution will support the claims of students that I told them the final paper (broken into components we spent weeks on, and the importance of turning in even if incomplete was discussed in every class and every GClassroom post for the last three weeks) was optional. #teaching
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️
Trying to find grace for students demanding I grade an entire term’s worth of work submitted this week, after the most miserable teaching quarter of my life and saying an abrupt good-bye to one of the two cats I’ve had for sixteen years on Monday. It’s hard.
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
I spoke with @blockclubchi.bsky.social about Alpha School opening in Chicago and why Alpha School's approach to education is anti-student, anti-teacher, and anti-democratic.
An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall
Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there's...
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these are the best reporters in the country, give them whatever the fuck they want www.status.news/p/cbs-news-l...
Props to Nilay for doing this work. Also posting this again, because Grammarly & so many companies & LLM-pilled techies built whole business models around ignoring consent & stealing shit & I don't like it. Grammarly stopped Expert Review but the gross mindsets remain www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
moryan.com
nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...
![Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name?
It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content.
You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name.
There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x56l2n7i7babgdzqul4bd433/bafkreiap5dna6sgosil3plep24dbqaybgtbnj7himxpdgfp37wgcgx3cpu)
People are characterizing this as a situation in which Wachspress describes the inappropriate relationship as beginning after Daniel Biss was no longer her teacher. No. That's not what she's describing.
Megan Wachspress@meganwachspress.bsky.social · 7mo agoI've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...
Won't be voting today, since I already turned in my mail-in ballot last week. But remember to hit the polls if you're an in-person type, Illinois.
How a Philadelphia high school is fighting AI slop and internet lies: www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...
These Philly teens are battling AI slop and political lies in their school hallways
As midterm elections near, Kensington Health Science Academy seniors are ramping up their fight against online disinformation — for their classmates and their families.
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The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.
AI is fundamentally a labor issue - and if after reading these testimonials from educators that @bcmerchant.bsky.social has collected you're not convinced it's time for a Luddite praxis in K-12 and higher education, then shit, I'm not sure what else to tell you.
"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
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Yeah, man, it’s an absolute mystery why so many people are going all in on AI refusal. Maybe they absolutely do understand the ways in which AI is “useful” to the people hawking AI in the words of those very people.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 7mo ago“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.” —Palantir CEO Alex Karp newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
moryan.com
The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +
The left is winning the AI debate. Really outstanding piece by Brian Merchant. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/actually-t...
Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
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I hear we’re bashing Luddites again so: they were not against “progress”, they were against DANGEROUS “progress” that had almost zero guardrails or oversight at the cost of human lives. Now wait, I have heard that somewhere before…let me think about it…
I posted this on instagram last year for Valentine’s Day but it’s only become more obvious so I’m reusing it this year🫠
When I pointed out a student's essay was clearly a ChatGPT hallucination (the text was about mountain climbing, not drug use; it makes sense in context), he decided the best strategy was to tell me he asked his sister to do the assignment because he was too busy, so academic honesty is going great.