Turning a blind eye to "2025-2010=14" requires total commitment to the cause, really.
Lecturer. Design; technologies; anything goes. Latest paper on GenAI here: https://www.inmaterialdesign.com/INM/article/view/240/499 Opinions are mine and don't necessarily reflect the opinion of the University. Reposts ≠ endorsement. (he/him)
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Turning a blind eye to "2025-2010=14" requires total commitment to the cause, really.
Game/Digital educators: Godot Engine @godotengine.org is now available for Android, so you could run it from a Chromebook without enabling Linux (which is not an option when using a child's family link account). #latinsky (Godot is originally from Argentina, didn't you know?)
I could die on that hill too
Definitely the unfiltered one.
Unsurprisingly illustrated in full-on AI-slop style.
What? What should I do if I want to exclude the word 'ai' from my query? This is so confusing
I'd include Emotional Intelligence in the mix. But that's because I don't have any.
Any plans for a Brazilian edition? I've been recommending that book *a lot*, and some would require a translated version.
Packt Publishing authors: any idea whether we qualify for joining the class action against Anthropic if not residing in the US? #packt #anthropic #lawsuit #libgen
Is that for US residents only?
Before claiming Generative AI can replace the 'median human', tech companies and cheerleading media channels should learn what being human means. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Please don't get the conspiracy theorists started
Summer holidays book of all years!
Am I the only one who does *not* feel comforted by that thought?
"Or to put it another way, the solution of this contradiction is born in the labor which brings into the world this new being: no longer oppressor nor longer oppressed, but human in the process of achieving freedom." 2/2
"The man or woman who emerges is a new person, viable only as the oppressor oppressed contradiction is superseded by the humanization of all people." 1.5/2
Paulo Freire got that right too: "In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity," the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. " and 1/2
POSIWID
Also, horrible timing for the Guardian to publish 'Is-Aí-sentient' bait when something as bad as this happens: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Bizarrely, it seems that The Guardian fully embraced the "Can AI feel" / "Are universities bad"* combo of US big tech apologists. *(answers: no, and no)
Thought I'd recognised you from the picture!
Flattered! I'm jealous of your following, though!
Lecturer in Digital Innovation Design here, can confirm.
Leave us out of this. We actually remember the 80s
Exactly this. It will be much harder be for students to critically learn about GenAI without engaging with it in their educational environments. Also: they need to know that GenAI images could make their work much much worse than hand drawn sketches, in many cases.
I keep telling you, Design is an applied social science. www.dezeen.com/2019/07/30/e...
Latinsky, do your thing:
An all-in approach is often as uncritical as the total ban that precedes it. Allowing educators more time to experiment with GenAI and research/understand it for themselves would have been a more informed position, AFAIAC.
(and I say this as someone who has been interested in, and pushing for the use of GenAI in education before that even allowed)
Stockholm syndrome comes to mind
I'd love to see that vision of reclaiming the narrative back from big tech, but I also remember how this 'dead' Internet powered by social media and big tech mostly came *after* the dot com bubble burst. It would be beautiful if, this time, the opposite happened (truly democratic tech prevailing)
1000x times this. I wonder what Knorr-Cetina, Latour and Woolgar would / will be writing about this moment.
It re-boots faster. Ba-dum.
I can't believe none is mentioning Carlos Lyra's Maria Moita / Maria Quiet, from where the riff was possibility lifted: open.spotify.com/track/4u8257...
But... but.. but... man-flu 🤒
Genuine question: are Brazilians Latinxs? My guess is yes we are!
I mean, from Bolsonaro to Trump, anti-academic positions are hardly a 'fresh hot take', isn't it? A bit like 'anti-woke' comedy: the more popular (and crass) it gets, the more it's said to be cutting edge.
The worst thing about Fraser's take is that university-bashing news and opinion pieces are being 'properly shared' by everyone, from The Telegraph to The Guardian.
John Titor shall be vindicated!
Self-fulfilling profecy / sales pitch of AI 'replacing all creative and white collar jobs' seals the deal.
Simon Jenkins' quarterly rage bait is out. It's almost funny how The Guardian's support for the university = bad discourse feels so... elitist.
"It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public."
AI as corrosive personalised groupthink.
Will individual authors who had their work canibaliised by Anthropic via Libgen be financially compensated, then? Asking for a friend.
Please explain how AI-supported research on quantum computing requires the complete works of, say, Bob Mortimer to be included in the data.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think what @msbonnie.bsky.social meant is that edtech/publishers business models adopted by libraries are unfairly/unnecessarily costly.
(point originally made by @olivia.science )
It's not even that they want highly skilled word. As someone else in bsky pointed out, the point is devaluing creative skills and expertise, particularly academic.
Likening PhD holders to a (non-functional) algorithm is a form of dehumanisation & anti-intellectualism that is a bellwether for contemporary fascism. Essentially it's a typical — if not the archetypal — first step towards fascism: to dehumanise, deskill, defund, and, ultimately, fire the academics.
The op blocked me (I'm not sure why). In case you're wondering what post I was referring to:
Hard disagree. As long as AI companies selling point remains something like 'a PhD in your pocket' or the abhorrent term 'average human' , we can and should point out, and make fun of, how absurd the comparison is.
As long as their selling point remains something like 'a PhD in your pocket' or the abhorrent term 'average human' , we can and should point out, and make fun of, how absurd the comparison is.
Joke is on them: we GenX'ers never wanted that in the first place. fortune.com/2025/08/07/g...
Is the photo from a Diego Rivera painting? Love that!
"PhD level" data graph
Amazon Kindle not including text-to-speach by default for all books is proof that no technogly is 'inevitable', and that 'inevitability' is based on corporate greed.
Clever🧠
I'm currently drafting AI guidance for my students and would appreciate feedback from you (and everyone interested) once it's ready.
Regarding this particular point: "Ask generative AI to identify or summarize key points in an article before you read it - Yes ‐ Acceptable without explicit citation", I'd argue you shouldn't be allowed to cite the paper unless you have *actually* read it.
Not sure this would qualify as profanity, but I'm all for calling bullshit bullshit.
Good thread with common points with higher ed
Wasn't history supposed to have ended anyway?
For those tired of the endless "as long as you use it as a tool"
Again, a case of POSIWID (purpose of a system is what it does). In this case, autocomplete.
Is it just my English as second language, or does the headline confuses you too? For a second I thought defence firms would recruit students *for* the universities (which seemed like a super aggressive marketing strategy).
Good read for designers as applied social scientists.
Yes i would obviously and absolutely redesign the entire academic endeavour of undergraduate higher education to have humanities and social sciences be a disciplinary requirement of all majors, if i could, but let's start with the STEM and computer-toucher stuff
And in case they need a white man with a similar point: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
"More to the point, why aren’t you paying for everything you ever used but no longer need ?" That feels projective. Isn't that how the subscription model for software works?
"US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally Bolsonaro" Not sure why 'it seems' like it. Didn't Trump make that explicit in his letter/post?
If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.
1000x this. Footnotes are better for organising thoughts. They are the original hypertext, the 'as we may think' in written format. Can't understand how few design journals support them. I blame an obsession in being STEM-like.
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
We risk doing the same thing on AI in education: oversimplifying a much broader issue into bite-sized instructions for a couple of cases.
Interesting. Visiting @phm.org.uk (The People's History Museum), I noticed many of explanatory texts attributing societal changes to a 'reform', in which case I think that party's name is a clever way of hijacking attention. 'The left' could have a similar effect on readers?
I don't get that either. Giving credit to consulted sources (either in GenAI text and images) is often considered a technical impossibility for a technology that is sold as 'more intelligent than all humans combined', when not to a god itself.
I understand the feeling, but can't help thinking this is just to normalise an already anti-woke, far-right biased AI ecosystem.
Are you still going on about this age verification thing?
We just received the 4,000th Google Scholar citation for this 2009 paper in The Lancet: Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change. We had hoped that by now mitigation would have made it less relevant but apparently BitCoin and AI are more important. d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/3745690/lanc...
For those who see AI slop as result of technical limitation in achieving desired visual styles and aesthetics, read Rosenbaum: AI slop *is* the desired aesthetic.
Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, AI use … hinder[s] learning and deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...
"Unfortunately in the digital world we don’t have a sense of age.“
#BookSky
Looking forward to youtu.be/5cnIQHJ169s?...
new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
![When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools Neil Selwyn, Marita Ljungqvist and Anders Sonesson [1] Abstract: Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on the large amounts of work that teachers put into reviewing, repairing and sometimes completely reworking AI-produced outputs that they perceive to be deficient. Rather than reflecting teachers’ lack of skill in prompting GenAI effectively, the paper shows how this work foregrounds the educational limitations and frailties of AI and other automated technologies – with teachers having to act on a wide range of complex professional judgements around pedagogical appropriateness, social relations and overall educational value to bear on AI-generated content. The paper concludes by considering the need to challenge ongoing industry and policy claims around the labour-saving benefits of artificial intelligence in education, and instead focus on the ways in which these technologies are dependent on the hidden labour of humans to co-produce the illusion of automation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y6hdumjyq5qq566lpzcgm5oc/bafkreigekoonls6r72cp2u5ijx43qaubp546k7x6a34svbiz4i4phkpytq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Open vs. Blackboxed, reproducible vs 'unique'. As far as I can see (link below), a communal, OSS-science inspired model could be a possible way for fairer gen ai software. www.inmaterialdesign.com/INM/user/set...
No, and they actually read the chapters too!
On a symbolic level, sure, that's impressive. But aren't those robot vacuum cleaners doing this for ages now?
Our colleagues in the humanities and social sciences have been screaming for years about the risk of this outcome but physical and biological scientists ignored the warnings because it didn’t affect us immediately since our program support was still there Now that’s changed
We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
Enemies of humanities are usually enemies of science too. Their appreciation for big tech (or the money it makes) makes some STEM folks believe they're safe, but that's not the case. (see also Bolsonaro in Brazil, etc)
How hard to peel are the garlic bulbs in your area?? Or is it because of the mess?
Pro tip: have a ruler next to your mole when capturing it's image; images featuring rulers in the dataset are more often labeled as positive cases.
Imagine watching Gattaca (my favourite science fiction movie ever, by the way) and completely missing its point.
Well, it reads like that!
WeTransfer simultaneously (a) pirating every user's intellectual property to generate their own content and (b) blaming all their content's future copyright infringements on their users.
I know this is not the point of the post but... This 3D render *screams* 3DS Max outdoor lighting.
