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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Excellent observation by @katemanne.bsky.social "In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding." open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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Bar Exam Week: when you know summer is OVER over (Although this one in particular felt like it never happened in the first place, apart from the rising anxiety in the building)

A fantastic introduction to all the challenges libraries are struggling with, including AI

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2w ago

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

The coverage on this OpenAI incident is abysmal. Use of the terms "rogue" and "loss of human control" lead to groupthink as people lack the critical skills to understand the difference between "autonomy" and faulty reward functions in AI on a task it was directed and given access to do.

Yes, librarians have been worried about this for a long time. I've made the decision to revert back to print for certain things when vendors overreached on the digital side

Library Futures@libraryfutures.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Will Gottsegen describes the impending loss of consumer autonomy in a way that librarians will find sadly familiar." Also concerned about digital ownership: PlayStation gamers. And yes, we are sadly familiar. www.arl.org/blog/consume...

More books and AI news

RR Edmonds@rredmondsart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot www.seattletimes.com/business/jud...

I know I'm not the only librarian who's been approached about "digitizing unique collections" in what was obviously an AI training grab

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

I don't like this turn of things. Get in the archives and breathe the ancient dust! Give me a narrative that captures me. There are so many great uses of AI technology to improve research and copyediting, no doubt. I'm no Luddite. But let's not farm our human judgment out to statistical models.

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Smith on Legal Voluntarism and the Reoccupation of the Classical Constitution Thomas A. Smith (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted The Vacated Position: Legal Voluntarism and the Reoccupation of the Classical Constitution…...

ALA's new guidance on AI use in libraries looks is helpfully grounded in values rather than FOMO @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.ala.org/tools/standa...

Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries

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The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project

Two decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team.

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lol devastating. This is exactly how all profs should move here on out, in-person finals with paper and pen. ChatGPT your way outta THAT one.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4w ago

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Uhhhhhh, don't use it? wapo.st/3TmHl5G

Column | How to stop ChatGPT from ruining how you think

Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.

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most of the time it's the fault of the 19th century

Here's the thing: I grew up an engineer's kid in Silicon Valley and I practiced IP in the early 2000s. I generally have pretty warm feelings about tech and the people who make it. It is endlessly frustrating to now be branded a Luddite just because I can see the problems and the hype.

There are many reasons I barely use LinkedIn, but here's a new one

Rest of World@restofworld.org · last mo.

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law

As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...

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I'm a little bit relieved my Con Law and Fed Courts professor didn't live to see this term.

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

Do I do my duty to stay informed or do I risk a rage aneurysm by reading the opinions? Decisions, decisions...

Throwback to when an economics prof was trying to tell a historian and others that we should be more open to the amazingness that LLMs will unleash on our fields specifically and higher ed pedagogy generally. This was the one and only example he presented as evidence of this shining future.

Dr Naomi Scott@drnaomiscott.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

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Yet another reason LLMs are not actually helpful tools in the research stage either

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Sitting in the Bayeux Tapestry ticket queue all afternoon only to have my only available conference day sell out is sadly reminiscent of eBay sniping circa 2003. Alas, I have no choice but to plan a second London trip and try again.

Such an interesting glimpse into the student experience of AI

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Very interesting development

The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics@iethics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social

The whole thread is worthwhile, but this point is key. AI is, to the degree it engages with the potential sum of human knowledge, restricting what we might know, not expanding it. And to the degree that it is killing the skills required to read what it can't, it's killing knowledge.

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Equating whatever GPT has trained on with knowledge in general excludes a lot of work that was not digitized in the first place. That's not a win for accessibility or democratization of knowledge. If anything, it privileges what was already most accessible, and excludes unique and marginal sources.

Law folks using Zotero: I'm ready to release my "Bluebook Citations Fixer" plugin designed to address some recurring issues with law review citations that Zotero alone can't handle. Download and instructions at link below. danepps.github.io/zotero/blueb...