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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 11h

“But Gen-…”

Shut up stop being wrong.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 11h

If your opinion mentions any of those weird ass USian pop-culture generation names, it’s wrong.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 1d

I looked at that subreddit. I shouldn’t’ve.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Well, couldn’t get leek conveniently, so did peas instead, and some avocado toast while that was cooking, as a snack.

Actually the first time I used avocado myself, somehow it was much better than any avocado toast I ate outside.

Veggie stew with potatoes carrots and peas in a pot.

Four wedges of avocado toast sandwiches on plate on table, made of white square bread that is nicely browned

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Nugget @nuggetthenonbiner.bsky.social · 3d

These still give A. I. too much credit and leeway.

A pencil helps the artist in someway.

A. I. does not help, it turns you into helper.

Autotune lets you modify your voice to better fit your creative vision.

A. I. distorts other peoples' creative visions in order to let you lie and take credit.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Blocks work so annoyingly on bsky, i block someone and so now if i look at a post on the subthread we had an exchange, can't see the whole thing anymore. Just hide their posts this is awful and disincentivises blocking

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

LLM AI exists to crush labour. That's not even my surmise, the people paying billions of dollars to fund this stuff are extremely open and explicit that this is their goal.

There are no ethical use cases for LLMs at this point in time. Maybe when the bubble has popped thoroughly. Not before.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being such a self important loser that you believe you'll get researchers with a however many publications so far in their resume on some semi obscure technical detail about citations...

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Zenodo not Zotero, and self citation is a requirement if you are referring to your own research. Shut up when you know sod all about fuck all

Brett Buttliere @brettbuttliere.bsky.social · 2d

neither is zotero where the paper is 'published' because it is such high quality scholarship

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

No classes today & yesterday afternoon so I played CK3 all evening and slept in today. Plan for today: catch up on readings and cook dinner for today and tomorrow. Zeytinyağlı pırasa is what I have in mind.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Man alive look at his replies, clearly saying it’s discriminatory and misogynistic poked a wound & made the veil of 🧐 intellectual discussion 🧐 fall apart lmao. Shan’t we be surprised just once?

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

So maybe now let’s cut out this problematic distraction from two scholars talking their brilliant research, eh?

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

And, fuck me, let’s do this bit to: one can use ”myself” there for a variety of reasons: sounds better wrt sentence stress, is a common form in their professional peer group, their native language happens to prefer a reflexive form there so it’s a language transfer, it’s their dialect, etc etc

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn.. The problem isn’t why what word is used, it is that (1) gratuitously schooling ppl about their language is wrong and (2) this whole bs subthread if nitpicking abt Iris‘ incidental language use is wrong, both bc: it’s a frequent, discriminatory, misogynistic distraction

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 4d

I have a meeting with a curator coming up, who just sent me an invitation with the title "Schrauben und anderes" (screws and other things) and this just perfectly captures my life right now 🔩 #HistTech #HistSci #EarlyModern 🗃️

An early modern brass screw whose head is shaped in the form of two small feathers

Blued and decorated head of an early modern iron screw

Detail of an early modern iron screw, framed by an etched metal surface.

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 2d

Me and another linguist are telling you what you’re doing is wrong (and it is, for multiple reasons) and that your perceptions are not necessarily universal. Now with you here with a Dr in front of your name, one would wish would be more appreciative of fellow experts in another field, but alas…

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Onur Inal @onurinal.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations, but sadly scholars who’ve contributed to this success are forced to leave the university after 8 years due to the chain contract regulation. Almost 90% of academic staff live and work precariously—are on limited contracts because the @univie.ac.at does not offer permanent positions

Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 3d

University of Vienna is among the Top 100 in the World University Ranking by @timeshighered.bsky.social for the first time, at rank 95! 🥳 This strengthens visibility & international connections for outstanding researchers and students worldwide. #univie #THERanking 👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

THE Ranking – University of Vienna among the top 100 for the first time

University of Vienna has improved from rank 110 to 95

www.univie.ac.at

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

I was long put off by them when I saw CEO all starry eyed about "AI" in multiple youtube vids of theirs, iirc even talking about adding NPUs

And, funny how they say they don't pick partners based on politics when their entire proposition is right to repair & so politics. Classic startup bs

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

Nice parts:

- I like the library, kinda. I mean i could be better, but it surely could be much worse

- The Letters building is a spawn of hell, but the area around it is lovely

- It's in Ankara, I 💙 Ankara

- BAM is quite nice, I liked the burger & sandwich place upstairs, & nice coffee in BAM

Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

I mean there's nice parts of Beytepe campus but

- It is literally in the middle of nowhere like some Area 51

- It's massive with most of it empty

- The Faculty of Letters building is literally a CS GO map

- The Beytepe metro station is like, outside the bounds of civilisation

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

An overview of my uni campus experience

Boğaziçi Uni South Campus: trees, Bosporus, best views, nice air, old buildings

Istanbul Uni's buildings scattered across Fatih: literally in the middle of thousands of years of history

Hacettepe Uni's Beytepe Campus: literally a good setting for a Western

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

No I’m the tongue thief

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 3d

Therefore don’t ”correct” people unless prompted or unless they’re saying something that might get them in trouble, it’s rude and patronising at best. What are you, the tongue cop?

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Göktuğ Kayaalp @igoktugk.bsky.social · 4d

Actual hot take: public transit vehicles should never be heated except the dead of winter. I already dressed up for the weather, all this achieves is sweat and th discomfort of having to strip in a bus.