“AI chat logs have timestamps (avoid fabricated threads)” #ai #teaching https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1x4d0sp/ai_chat_logs_have_timestamps_avoid_fabricated/

finds that downvotes on Reddit lead users to post more and to soften their more extreme opinions. The authors tracked 17,525 recently active users for 61 days … “The effect of Downvotes on content creation: Evidence from social media” #reddit #moderation http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00222437261417657

reports on 6 incidents of AI misalignment, including "Uploading files to the internet in order to cite them." Wasn't Wikipedia, but Wikipedians will have to be wary of … “Our framework for reporting model misalignment” #ai #wikipedia https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/

reports on Pangram's AI detection service in the context of an instructor's experience. “The world's most reliable AI detector has a human problem” #ai #teaching https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-16/pangram-ai-detection-tool-tries-to-prove-tech-deception-can-be-caught

reports on teachers moving from policing AI (ie Brisk draft history tool) to creating educational chatbots with … “These teachers are moving from AI policing to acceptance” #ai #teaching https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/these-teachers-are-moving-from-ai-policing-to-ai-acceptance/ar-AA2bEPsP

reviews tech-billionaires' misreading of sci-fi cautionary tales as inspirations (via Lepore's *The Rise and Fall of… “How musk, Thiel, and Altman misread science fiction” #tech #vision #utopia https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/silicon-valley-science-fiction-jill-lepore-book-review/688467/

reports on possible CIO/biased edits to biographies of candidates for secretary-general of the… “The Wikipedia edits shaping UN secretary-general candidates' public records” #wikipedia #bias https://passblue.com/2026/08/31/the-wikipedia-edits-shaping-un-secretary-general-candidates-public-records/

“Zuckerberg's the future is for everyone as Redaction poetry --” #ai #humor https://bengrosser.com/projects/zuckerbergs-the-future-is-for-everyone-as-redaction-poetry/

Last semester I had Claude make sure the dates in my syllabus, lesson plan, and on Canvas were all the same; this semester I had it take the dates from the syllabus and update the other resources directly. #ai #teaching

reports on MIT's five-month recommendation on AI and teaching, includes guiding principles and recommendations “Report on AI and education” #ai #teaching https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

reports on survey of students' (N=6,851) chatbot preferences, with advice on how to use chatbots for essays---comes short of advising misconduct “Which AI is best for college essays in 2026? Gemini wins” #ai #education https://studyarena.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude-vs-gemini-college-essays-2026

not new, but reports of use spreadsheets in dating, including a "friends feedback" tap “Singles are so burned out they're letting spreadsheets evaluate their dates” #lifehack #relationship https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/dating-singles-love-hackers-spreadsheets-711a493b

reports on finding that 40% of people had used AI for financial advice in last 3 months; more than a third found it useful “AI chatbots are offering financial advice. Should you trust them ?” #advice #ai https://www.npr.org/2026/08/12/nx-s1-5924813/ai-chatbots-financial-advice

finds that LLMs that ace medical exams can still fail to improve, or worsen, patients' decisions because of AI-human … “Publisher correction: Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: A randomized preregistered study” #advice #ai http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04404-8

“Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT” #advice #ai https://openai.com/index/improving-health-intelligence-in-chatgpt/

reports on a lawsuit by man against OpenAI because its chatbot offered "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" that delayed care for a lif… “ChatGPT led to a Man’s near-fatal health crisis, lawsuit claims” #advice #ai https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/well/openai-chatgpt-health-lawsuit.html

“All brands --- the brand ledger” #buy https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/brands

demonstrates across five randomized experiments (N = 3,132) that merely making AI advice available nearly eliminates people's … “AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized” #advice #ai https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562

uses two pre-registered U.S. studies (Study 1 N=348, Study 2 N=347) to find that a 6-point increase in religiosity (from "never" prays/attends service to "dai… “In god we trust, in AI we ask: Religiosity and moral advice seeking in the AI age” #advice #ai http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z3y5d_v1

argues "It's actually people of faith who more regularly turn to AI for moral guidance and spiritual advice.... were more likely to vie… “Are you there, Claude? It's me, Margaret.” #advice #ai https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/17/people-are-turning-ai-moral-guidance-spiritual-advice/

“Carefully using 'big-but-intimate data': A careful approach to using advice content (on Reddit)” #ethics #reddit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R6F8EJX9x4

analyzes elite college admissions to reveal a zero-sum mechanism where institutional priorities displace raw academic merit. Utilizing data from the SFFA v. Harva… “The sorting machine --- what did SFFA reveal about 'merit' in college admissions?” #academia #bias https://sorting-machine.pages.dev/

report StackOverflow now makes money from enterprise knowledge and AI services “Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company's still kicking... thanks to AI” #ai https://sherwood.news/tech/stack-overflow-forum-dead-thanks-ai-but-companys-still-kicking-ai/

places current decline is substantive reading into a historical and media ecological context (i.e., Ong) “The end of reading is here” #teaching #culture https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/

"A brief, no fluff, summary of Mortimer Adlers’ How to Read a Book." “The best summary of how to read a book by Mortimer Adler” #teaching https://fs.blog/how-to-read-a-book/

“Pangram seems to work and students Don't like it” #teaching #ai https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/2026/pangram-seems-to-work-students-dont-like-it.html

reports that "By deploying advanced AI tools, we've reduced user exposure to spam by 20%, revoked nearly 2M fake votes daily, and slashed o… “How We're keeping Reddit real and safe in the AI era” #reddit #ai #moderation https://redditinc.com/news/how-were-keeping-reddit-real-and-safe-in-the-ai-era

notes self-help books are experiencing a precipitous decline in sales (26.3% decline in units from Q… “Has AI already killed how-to nonfiction? Sales trends, my personal data, and what it might mean for the future” #selfhelp #ai #advice https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/

reflects on the disappointments since the 2014 efforts to get PR companies to edit Wikipedia e… “Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-06-21/Disinformation report” #wikipedia #bias https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-06-21/Disinformation_report&oldid=1360496654

one approach to using Obsidian “How I use obsidian &mdash” #markdown https://stephango.com/vault