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cbecker , 9 days ago to random

The flipside of “there will be generative AI in your university education, whether you want it or not”:

“specialised private education for the super-rich… Offer of £2m to tutor architecture student is latest sign of a new frontier”. In other words: enshittification and inequality are two sides of the same neoliberal coin. @pluralistic

https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/26/the-booming-world-of-specialised-private-education-for-super-rich

cbecker , 1 month ago to random

"Lavender applies the logic of the pattern recognition-driven signature strikes popularized by the US ... with the mass surveillance infrastructures and techniques of #AI ... Instead of serving ads, Lavender automatically puts people on a kill list based on the likeness of their surveillance data patterns to the data patterns of purported militants – a process that ... is hugely inaccurate. Here we have the AI-driven logic of ad targeting, but for killing." @Mer__edith https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

cbecker , 1 month ago to AcademicChatter group

Today in “GenAI is spam”:

“While publishers are fighting back with technology, paper mills are using the same kind of tools to stay ahead.

“Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.” @academicchatter

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

cbecker , 1 month ago to AcademicChatter group

How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests:
@academicchatter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/university-fossil-fuel-divestment-student-protests-israel-gaza

cbecker , 2 months ago to AcademicChatter group

TU Delft is hiring an assistant professor in community-level design for climate Action:
https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=17165
@academicchatter #ClimateAction

cbecker , 3 months ago to AcademicChatter group

“one of the most frustrating kinds of AI hype is when people who are actually in a position to use their own expertise to push back instead give in to the FOMO and do the hype for tech companies. Today's case in point is a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education”

@emilymbender 🎯 on #AI #hype @academicchatter

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/doing-their-hype-for-them/

cbecker , 3 months ago to AcademicChatter group

This is how you can organize a covid-safe event. Hint: it's neither very expensive nor very difficult.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ed-yong-public-lecture-on-long-covid-tickets-849000241577 with the great @edyong209 - virtual option too.

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid @academicchatter

cbecker , 3 months ago to AcademicChatter group

It is easy to joke that once #AI generated grant proposals 💩citing AI generated papers 💩are “reviewed” by AI, the system implodes and academics will come to their senses.

But the truth is, that system won’t implode in its own. It doesn’t need quality or substance to keep running. To these 💩 systems, the collapse of intellectual substance is an economic externality, just as pollution has been an externality for industry for too long.

See https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183 on peer review
@academicchatter