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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social

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Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press). Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · May 9

In this article I argue treating LLMs like experts or authors or friends instead of as a conduit to access the insights of nameable others is a mistake, both in terms of dangers and lost opportunities www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

AI Is Not Your Friend

How the “opinionated” chatbots destroyed AI’s potential, and how we can fix it

www.theatlantic.com

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 8h

Ummmm… he is like the definition of cool.

Picture of Johnny Cash throwing the middle finger birdie.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 23h

A company that greenlights this is not one that actually thinks they are going to automate 30% of jobs within five years.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

This application of Weber to Klein/Coates is fucking brilliant and will lead you to an unexpected place (also ccing @danahoule.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/hardlywo...

Is Ezra Klein a Journalist or Politician?

Also: is Ezra Klein a journalist or politician?

open.substack.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

He is really the model of a great reporter

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to quote tweet this to MSNBC and politely ask what their thought process on this is.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

I do not need legal analysis about something supposedly going to trial in January that will never go to trial in January I need street coverage, I need you to interview the people standing up, and I need Jacob's always stellar reporting. Please break out of normal programming.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

I just got home at 6 PDT so maybe I missed it but *strongly* suggesting MSNBC skip the guest commentators on Comey and Israel put Jacob on TV live please

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

Maybe beginning to feel news coverage that either ignores this sort of blather or balances it with a polite “Some experts disagree with the assessment that Portland is a burned-out hellscape under the rule of Antifa warlords” doesn’t really cut it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

As I said at the time a "consumer" used to be called a reader, a viewer,a listener. We created and reinforced a value hierarchy, and now a bunch of people who could be watching their favorite films are pushing us video of the Teletubbies meeting the Beatles or whatever.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

This Oatmeal piece is a good read, and it makes me think how the whole "be a creator not a consumer" focus in the makerspace years (2000s) of education lead inexorably to this moment where mid-level accounting execs are flooding Facebook with AI slop. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

LLMs are involved, yeah, but only one smaller piece of them. The environmental differences are extraordinary and the social downside also not good.

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

He blocked himself so I can't search him btw. He came and lectured me about his "experiment" to get Bluesky posters "out of their bubble" then I think got embarrassed enough about his mistake he blocked me. Which is kind of funny I guess?

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, I feel less alone in my confusion, and also less worried I got in a tiff with someone who might be friends with the people I know and like at the NYT.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I try to tell people is any minute someone is reading an LLM explanation vs doomscrolling TikTok is probably a win for society, so of course openAI does this because they really are that company.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Is that what that dude was about? I was really confused. He literally did not seem to understand you have to read a post and a quote post together. It took me many interactions to figure out he hadn't read the QT'd post. So freaking weird!

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

I am of the relatively rare belief that LLMs are very useful and not environmentally damaging in comparison to most anything else we do but that generative video is horrifically bad on both counts and mixing that with the attention dynamics of social media is a disaster.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Who is going to pay for all this slop?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

futurism.com

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

You must know this, which means the only real experiment you are probably engaged in is trying to get blocked for your own sense of clout, and maybe that's fun for you, but I am so bored by this adventure in creative misreading.

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

You look at the post being "quoted" to understand the outer post, the "quote post"

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

A quote post is a post about a post. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Well, this started with you somehow reading "subheading" as "article" and doubling down and it's just got less productive each go round, so I guess this is the end of the line.

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

You know we have common acquaintances, right, that are going to wonder why you are being an asshole to me here?

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

If you agree that someone just reading the subheading would get the wrong idea, congratulations

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to QT you because life is just too short for that but this is embarrassing

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus Christ dude, just read the tweet. Each word is there for a reason. What are you even doing here?

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