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Liana Krissoff

@lianak.bsky.social

Thunderstorm, shade tree enthusiast in Pittsburgh. Also a writer and editor, apparently developing a Unified Theory of “Heartstopper.”

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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · yesterday

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

404media.co

Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just learned that Jordan Tannahill, author of two of the best books I read over the summer, will be at White Whale Books in Pittsburgh on Wednesday! (And yes, I started following him a while back because I read about the medieval monk movie he’s making with Kit Connor lol.)

Two paperback books: The Listeners and Liminal, by Jordan Tannahill.
Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 3w ago

I made the decision a while ago not to use AI detectors. 1. They are AIs themselves. Anything you feed into them is “turned over” to the model. 2. They aren’t very accurate. 3. I told my students I wouldn’t use AI in my running of my courses. 4. This alleviates students’ fears about…

Oy Geralt@thekvitcher.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing your own child's joy to know themselves and be accepted for who they are is better than any drug. Parents who refuse to invite themselves to that experience are missing out. And even if you eventually come around, you'll be kicking yourself for losing all that time.

Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · last wk.

“I only use AI as a tool for brainstorming and organizing my thoughts, not for actual wri—“ No. That *is* writing. You’re employing a service to write for you.

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.

Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1

“Everyone uses it, that’s my experience,” said one campus freshman, Ben Schiro. Still, Schiro and other students expressed discomfort with the authenticity of these public-facing messages, which AI may have played a role in the creation of. Those students said they may use AI for editing or research or organizing thoughts, but they draw the line at generating words.
Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.

Interesting spread from UC Berkeley newspaper about AI use across the university. A lot about the university using AI in official comms and obituaries (!) but as writing teacher, this caught my eye. I worry about this because of course "organizing thoughts" is of course "thinking" /1

“Everyone uses it, that’s my experience,” said one campus freshman, Ben Schiro. Still, Schiro and other students expressed discomfort with the authenticity of these public-facing messages, which AI may have played a role in the creation of. Those students said they may use AI for editing or research or organizing thoughts, but they draw the line at generating words.
Andrew Berzanskis@aberzanskis.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Satchel Paige's great asset was control. One of his barnstorming gags was to set up a 1x2 plank behind home plate and stick four tenpenny nails into it. He'd drive the nails into the board by pitching from the mound. And never take more than 10 pitches." —Bill Veeck, "VEECK—As in Wreck" (1962)

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w ago

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

Joel Pinckney@jpinckney.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lots to appreciate about this, but in particular: respecting the students enough to recognize that reading such a policy might be jarring, particularly when the larger university is encouraging the use of generative AI; and explicitly stating that the teacher is holding himself to the same standard.

Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 4w ago

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy: Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines (I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience) Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)
Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · last mo.

A corollary to this point: Students need and deserve real teachers on the other side of their writing practice, true readers who will consider their messy drafts and chaotic ideas with care. I can’t imagine how discouraging it would be to have to write only for an AI tutor or grader.

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last mo.

I had a great time talking with @annhandley.bsky.social @cloeax.bsky.social and @sashastiles.bsky.social at the @wbur.org festival about AI /creativity. The transcript of our chat is now posted and here's something I said that is central to how I've been thinking about AI /1

JR: I think we have to keep giving young people opportunities where we say we care what you think; we care what you have to say, and we have to scaffold experiences where what they think actually matters. What my students want is to be a person who has something to say. But they want to figure out what will that mean or look if nobody's cares what they think, because a chatbot can generate something faster? I think that's actually the challenge. I'm much more interested in that challenge than how we stop people from cheating (although someone has to worry about that). How do we figure out how you – student — can matter, and your ideas can matter, in a world that's just so crowded with so much output.
Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · last mo.

With news that Google is making it more difficult for students to avoid Gemini with “a Gemini tab to transform their class materials into interactive experiences that help them study and learn” and “starter prompts”, I wanted to repost an earlier 🧵 with research on the Googlization of education.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm with Justin Reich, who said, "industry-sponsored professional development is, at its core, a 'customer acquisition' campaign." As Google attempts to strengthen its grip on teachers and students, here's a 🧵 with work that examines the Googlization of education...

Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · last mo.

As a professional Word user, how concerned should I be about the possibility that Word as it exists now (even in its degraded state) will go away? Is Microsoft really that dependent on the success of Anthropic and OpenAI? Will Microsoft throttle the features that make AI totally unnecessary for me?

Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RETVRN but for book cover art. Seen at PulpFest today, a random fantasy paperback from 1969 with the most gorgeously unhinged cover illustration. (Neglected to note the artist’s name.)

The Lost Land (“formerly Dian of the Lost Land”), by Edison Marshall. The cover illustration is a fantastical landscape, with cave people and white dogs? hunting a mastodon-type animal amid green rolling hills in the foreground, a river and white cliffs in the middle ground, and outsized, spiky, tower-like mountains in the distance. A winged beast like a pterodactyl swoops down toward the hunters. Within a dip in the mountains, superimposed on an orange-to-blue ombré sky, is the face of a feminine-looking being. A deep orange spot on her forehead may be a sun. It’s all very smoothly rendered.
Liana Krissoff@lianak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve lucked out with back-to-back books featuring smart, funny, messy women. Both are talky, tense, and propulsive: New People, by Danzy Senna, and The Listeners, by Jordan Tannahill.

The two books on a wooden table. New People has a type-treatment cover; The Listeners has a small photo of a woman facing away in the center, with a hectic line spiraling out from it.