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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately, yes. I also didn’t expect so many people to immediately embrace it uncritically.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 1d

I believe more people should speak up about this. I can’t fathom that the majority is ok with this.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and especially in times of Academia losing trust among the general population.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 7d

The extra audacity of calling it a “research assistant”

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 10d

Do you imply I’m insane? 😄

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 13d

I am old enough to remember when our teachers warned us about the inaccuracy of information published on Wikipedia and we couldn’t cite it as a source. And now it has become a valuable collaborative knowledge base that is under threat of extinction. Feels like we are moving in the wrong direction.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 16d

Maturing is celebrating major revisions 🥳

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 17d

Agree, but also my favorite part of research is the one that is impossible to foresee two years in advance:)

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 17d

I feel like 90% of grant writing has also little to do with doing science or research.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 17d

Apparently parents are now casually using ChatGPT to diagnose their children’s illnesses instead of calling medical services. As if googling your symptoms was not bad enough.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 21d

Trump is throwing trumptum

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 22d

What’s the deal with academic “lightning talks” that last 10 minutes no time for questions? Where are we rushing? Why are we packing so much into so little time in a conference? I prefer talks that last 30-40 minutes plus a round of questions. We need time to digest, reflect, and discuss.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you for the essay recommendation! I also think it’s an interesting philosophical discussion but it is so tired as an argument.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 22d

If I hear the Socrates against writing joke used to justify the proliferation of AI one more time … 😈

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 22d

We are about to be flooded with AI slop everywhere.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 25d

My native language doesn’t have articles (a, the), and I will probably never learn to use them correctly in English. I know the rules, I just can’t seem to be able to apply them.

Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 25d

This movie completely is a point of view of a white upper class man. I also didn’t understand what message about revolutionaries he planned to convey.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · 25d

Are you even a swiftie if you don’t hate the new album for two days only to start loving it later?

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Sep 29

Checked academic job listings today and decided to spare more from my current salary. Looks like high time to get some new skills.

Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Sep 23

Are we only just discovering that the world is complex and fundamentally unfair?:)

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Sep 23

This morning thoughts are sponsored by random (Russian?) drones stopping flight traffic over Copenhagen last night. Are we already in the war or do we have a few months (years) of doing our silly little jobs before the shit hits the fan? Hard to say.

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Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Sep 20

Were you held at gunpoint?

Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Sep 8

And it’s extra nice to win 😊

Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich @cosmickate.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just voted in the Norwegian national elections for the first time (got my citizenship in 2022). It’s pretty great to feel that your vote counts, to read all the parties’ programs, to compare policy suggestions. Democracy takes a lot of mental work, but it is very empowering to have a voice.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 8

I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?

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