Riley did a very good blog about this as a Library Science nerd that’s worth reading aftermath.site/google-searc...
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Moravians. Early America. Video games are neat. Meerkat enthusiast.
Searching most major platforms that like aren't reddit feels like swimming through the toilet in trainspotting. Horrible sensation. Unspecific.
So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.
Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 3d agoBoth the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.
This is the nadir, the reductio ad absurdum, of deciding that every ounce of human expression is something called “content” — rendering all such “content” the same, therefore, equally valueless.
Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo@digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 16h ago8/ This isn’t a Ministry of Truth rewriting history, and it isn’t Fahrenheit 451’s firemen burning books on purpose. It’s stranger: no one decided to erase anything at all. The erasure is just what falls out of a business model built on extraction.
Tis the season to teach, actually teach, how to do what we want students to do. READ. I hope this helps! #HowToReadAbook
Scott Sandage@scottsandage.bsky.social · 2y ago
Peaceful evening munchies with Babs and and Savanna
Usually I use the broiler when making baba ghanouj. Today, I used the charcoal grill. I feel pleased with these developments. I'm experimenting with using the grill more, especially with the coming last gasps of farm stand vegetables.
As a professional, allow me to assure you that the difference between "fiction" and "literature" is a fake idea. Also, Slow Horses bangs, and the audiobooks are excellent.
Steven Godfrey@stevengodfrey.bsky.social · 5d ago“Airport novel” reads as a pejorative, and that sure is a choice when TikToks are landing development deals
I am writing about sweetness (and sugar), and does anyone have any good recommendations beyond Mintz’s “Sweetness and Power”? I am particularly interested in sweetness as a taste. Thanks!
excellent example of why you should not fucking trust "AI detectors". wanting an easy, no-thinking-required solution to everything is literally part of the problem *with AI.* it is infuriating to see people who are supposedly on the human side fall for this shit. 👏 use 👏 your 👏 brain
Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · 5d agoAI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
This is a WILD essay by the brilliant Felicity James on writing and reading essays in the age of AI
The Wild Essay, Or, the Essayist responds to the University Policy on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
This is a guide to the essay in the age of AI, when we need it more than ever. How should we encourage our students to read when co-pilot is on hand to read for them? Beset on all sides by summary ...
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Right - the essay (term paper, thesis etc.) can BITE. We should add: IT NEEDS TO BITE. An AI generated essay never BITES. It's always docile and tame, and agrees to whatever idiot had previously written on the topic.
A very brief overview of where we are right now in higher education.
Hey academic friends, I need some bibliographic help. What are the best recent works on epistolary culture in the early modern world? My base knowledge on this is medieval, and while that's going to be everywhere in this article, I need to jump forward 600 years too.
people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat.
-𝚖𝚘𝚡@moxiest.art · last wk.our "patreon" is here: no exclusive content or anything. we don't believe in hiding art behind a paywall. and the model is set up you can cash it in for free stuff if you want to fully offset the subscription cost just a way to show consistent support artbymox-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/p...
the benevolence of the wealthy being culturally understood as the primary funding for the arts is a Bad Thing and flips some serious conspiracy brain switches
I got this book in the mail yesterday. First, the cover slaps. It's just different, and different from what I associate with an OI book cover. The book is weird (good), too. I poked around an online sample before getting it and I vibed with it. Only read the preface so far. Again, good weird.
if you're not accustomed to looking for AI tells, anything that describes some normal, obvious shit as "quiet" before 4-5 sentences of nonsense that concludes with "A definitive statement that changes everything." is absolute AI derived fuckery built to farm your attention and nothing else
I spent some of the past 2 days looking for short personal essays I can use for a class. It's been 84 years since I last did such work. The large time gap drives home Google's total & varied enshitification.
Friends who teach food history: what sort of things have you done in class that have involved being in a kitchen?
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Peer2Peer: A Critical Internet Studies Reader
Pre-orders are open! Copies will ship starting September 15 Peer2Peer: A Critical Internet Studies Reader is a collection of essays edited by Stacy E. Wood, written by researchers, artists, archivis...
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Please consider writing a piece for this volume on Africana Digital Humanities at HBCU’s. I’ve worked with each of the editors, and they are all top notch humans! ( please circulate as well)
Not personal: e.g. IMO, this work is incoherent, superficial and badly-written. Personal: e.g. You're ugly. You're hideous. Your tattoos are ugly. You're a bitter old woman. You're jealous. You're evil. You're ungrateful. You should shut up forever. I hope you die. I hope this helps!
A few weeks ago, I went down a rabbit hole of Harriet Beecher Stowe AI YouTube slop shorts featuring HBS, but make her young and hot. My thoughts keep going back to it, but not because of AI. It fits right in with altering author pictures in books. Not a new problem.
What makes this use really gross is the effort Douglass spent establishing 4 things in his narrative(s) (common to the genre; by Douglass was real good at it): I am real. I wrote these words. No one else wrote these words. And a bonus 4th one: No mediation between him and the reader.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“The installation, unveiled in February 2024, allows guests to ask Douglass questions through an iPad. Using a closed database of Douglass’s autobiographies and speeches, the artificial intelligence generates responses based solely on Douglass’s recorded words.”
I wrote a thing about Hegseth's D-Day remarks and it didn't find a home, but I didn't want to just have it sitting in a file forever, so. thomaslecaque.substack.com/p/d-day-the-...
D-Day: The Liberal Patriotism We Need
My paternal grandmother, Mamy Lily, was a teenager during World War II.
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A rare summer post! 🎂 Are you teaching about the Black press next year? For the 200th anniversary of Freedom's Journal, we're going to have new ways for college/grad classes to collaborate. Lots of new resources too! Holler at us? Pls help spread the word? DM here or douglassdayorg at gmail
