Kathleen Quinn

@katsphilosophy.bsky.social

Freelance Reporter at 1st Amendment 4th Estate Kat @ 1A4E.com Signal: katsphilosophy.74 Former: civics and democracy reporter @modbee -USC Health Equity fellow -UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alum OSINT trained

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · yesterday

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

Unless you want less sources, research and more reworked press releases… You cannot ask someone to write and edit 5-7 articles a week, edit community submissions, produce and edit a newsletter and cover all socials. And you should be embarrassed to offer 32k flat with no benefits in the Bay Area.

Honored and feeling pretty good about winning the California Journalism Award for environment reporting in Division 3. The stories people shared about their experiences navigating water quality issues in Stanislaus County will be forever with me and inform my reporting going forward.