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language, technology, social interaction, cognitive science • firstgen academic • founding member Radboud Young Academy • lapsed web developer • based in the Netherlands • Onderzoekt de wondere wereld van taal • he/👉

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In early 2023 we wrote a piece on human creativity in the age of text generators. TL;DR: With synthetic text generators on the rise, there was never a better time to cultivate the artisanal and interactive roots of human creativity.

It was desk-rejected so often that we stopped counting (journals seemed to prefer puff pieces on the amazing opportunities of #GenAI). I am still proud of it. Perhaps you would like to read it? https://ideophone.org/human-creativity-in-the-age-of-text-generators/

Illustration by Suzan Heijink of Émilie du Châtelet based on a contempary oil painting (author unknown). Du Châtelet is shown with an apple tree and falling apple, a prism and rainbow, and points describing an elliptical trajectory, signifying her contributions to the sciences. Source of this illustration: Trouw newspaper (2022)
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    At the request of our faculty board I drafted some basic guidance on generative AI and research integrity (v1). With valuable input from @Iris @olivia @andreasliesenfeld among others. Primarily aimed at academics and written from a values-first rather than a tech-first perspective

    Produced for @Radboud_uni Faculty of Arts but since some folks asked for a shareable version I've preprinted it at https://osf.io/2c48n/
    #GenAI #ethics

    Generative AI and research integrity GPT-based text generators like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot have rapidly become a “cultural sensation” [1]. This document provides scholars with guidelines and scientific background on how to think critically and mindfully about these tools in academic writing and research. Preamble All research at our institution, from ideation and execution to analysis and reporting, is bound by the Dutch Code for Research Integrity. This code specifies five core virtues that organize and inform research conduct: Honesty, Scrupulousness, Transparency, Independence and Responsibility. One way to summarize the guidelines in this document is to say they are about taking these core virtues seriously. When it comes to using Generative AI in or for research, the question is if and how this can be done honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently, and responsibly. A key ethical challenge is that most current Generative AI undermines these virtues by design [3–5; details below]. Input data is legally questionable; output reproduces biases and erases authorship; fine-tuning involves exploitation; access is gated; versioning is opaque; and use taxes the environment. While most of these issues apply across societal spheres, there is something especially pernicious about text generators in academia, where writing is not merely an output format but a means of thinking, crediting, arguing, and structuring thoughts. Hollowing out these skills carries foundati
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    Meta: "Today, we’re introducing Meta Llama 3, the next generation of our state-of-the-art open source large language model. (...) We’re committed to the continued growth and development of an open AI ecosystem for releasing our models responsibly."

    Also Meta: releases #llama3 straight into the bottom 5 of the GenAI openness leaderboard https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io #llm #opensource

    Newsflash: Llama3, like Llama2, is at best "open weights" and not in any sense open source.

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    when I see folks publishing open access in glam journals with >€5000 APCs i think, wow, you convinced your employer to buy you a horse 🐎

    then I realise, actually you convinced them to pay enough to buy an actual horse but what you got was a PDF hosted on a nature dot com domain

    publish & prioritise diamond open access if you can, folks, and just upload your stuff in green OA otherwise

    @academicchatter #academicchatter #OpenAcccess

    Paper bag horse diagram

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    In other news, people find that citations can be bought, presumably from paper mills https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607 — but it was always easy to manipulate Google Scholar profiles: uploading a PDF full of cites on academia:edu or on any GS-indexed domain will do it. More in this 2016 post: 'Some things you need to know about Google Scholar' https://doi.org/10.59350/704p6-k9s47

    #GoogleScholar @academicchatter #AcademicChatter

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