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Maarten Paulusse

@maartenp.bsky.social

information literacy & education specialist | studied and taught history, american studies, and religious studies

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 2w ago

We need libraries as safe havens for printed books more than ever… “…a copyright lawsuit from book authors against Anthropic revealed internal documents detailing its plan to obtain and scan millions of printed books, and destroy them in the process” www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Tech CEOs are promising us AI that will soon be as capable as humans (AGI). Some computer scientists are not convinced. Iris van Rooij has warned about the “intractability” of human-like computer systems for decades. We are now seeing signs LLMs are indeed already unscalable at levels far below AGI.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3w ago

Entirely as expected (see link.springer.com/article/10.1...) --- “Epoch AI … published a graph last year … It shows the exponentially increasing costs of serving more “tokens”—the words users type to chatbots—with several public AI models.” article: archive.ph/IrNBI (h/t @maartenp.bsky.social)

What AI Companies Are Seeing as They Scale LLMs costs growing exponentially as a function of tokens, from 0.10 cents to 30 dollars for 50 to 200 dollars respectively. For different models, GPT, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

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/

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I guess I'll keep shouting this message from the rooftops until it sticks. Lumping disparate technologies under the ✨"AI"✨ label only inhibits clear discussion and reasoning about what each does. >>

Floor Rusman@floorrusman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

Donate to Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!, organized by Elizabeth Prins

Lieve vrienden, familie, en alle lieve mensen, Dear English-speak… Elizabeth Prins needs your support for Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Once you have a basic understanding of how these LLM-powered chatbots work this shouldn’t be a surprise. It is surprising though that there still doesn’t seem to be widespread alarm about the dangers to democracy these tools pose…

Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I desire more in life than to be the “don’t summarise with AI”-guy on bluesky 😅 but reports like this keep coming in, so I’ll repeat ad nauseam, don’t summarise with ‘AI’! www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Author: Maarten Paulusse Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will b...

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Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3mo ago

The fact that the Ontario government recommended AI summary systems with such obvious and potentially patient-harming flaws should give pause to any doctors (or their patients) making use of them.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦@berthubert.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...

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Lamyae Aharouay@lamyae.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wanneer weet je dat de periode die je beschrijft de geschiedenis zal veranderen en wanneer weet je zeker dat iets een voetnoot zal blijken te zijn? Na 7,5 jaar stop ik als politiek verslaggever. Lees hier mijn afscheidsstuk: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Zaken doen met uiterst rechts is geen punt meer in politiek Den Haag: tijd om te gaan

Politiek: In Den Haag zag Lamyae Aharouay hoe uiterst rechts normaal werd gemaakt door andere partijen. Ze was verbijsterd – maar bleef als journalist gefascineerd. Nu wil ze afstand: niet meer steeds...

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5mo ago

in the end where claude gives him an answer on moratoriums that he doesn’t like, so he pushes back and it gives him the answer he wants is a pretty pure example of the reinforcement bias and sycophancy we talk about with chatbots, but you get the impression he convinced claude he was actually right

Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Almost daily reports now on how AI-generated summaries are wreaking havoc in academia, journalism, law, and elsewhere. Today, how a prominent Belgian journalist wrote 15 articles containing fake quotes, taken from AI summaries (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Hoe een journalist uitglijdt op door AI verzonnen citaten

Gebruik van AI-programma’s als ChatGPT als schrijfassistent leidt regelmatig tot missers. Na incidenten in media, wetenschap en advocatuur, ging nu ook journalist Peter Vandermeersch in de fout. „Ik h...

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Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hi 👋 to new followers who followed me after reading the article on AI-generated summaries. You might also find this earlier article I wrote interesting. I wrote it after visiting a Critical AI Literacy symposium, organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science and colleagues.

Maarten Paulusse@maartenp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out this short piece I wrote, based on my recent visit to the Critical AI Literacy symposium at Radboud University, organised by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @olivia.science and others: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...