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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 13h

I just mean I wouldn't give yourself a hard time because that doesn't sound like a lot! The state of mine...ketchup, brown sauce, salad cream, Caesar dressing, 6x hot sauces, chutneys, piccalilli, jams, jellies, mint sauce, pickles...

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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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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 14h

I consider that a very conservative condiment selection!

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THE MIDWIT CUCKOO @kneelbeforeclom.bsky.social · 1d

NO FRIENDS is exactly the kind of weird cool meticulous shit that AI boosters like to think it could do. And it just can't, because it takes effort.

Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 1d

btw if you want to see something actually interesting and funny done with the friends franchise, watch my pal @tomdissonance.com's NO FRIENDS www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcT...

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 5d

New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University

Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln

Abstract
This article examines the expansion of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) into higher education. We argue that genAI’s incursion into university systems represents an effort by Silicon Valley to capture lucrative new markets for their products, as well as enhanced credibility by association. Drawing on our experience as faculty in the California State University (CSU) system—the first university system to contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu system-wide—we assess the rhetoric that justifies and legitimizes genAI contracts in higher education. We suggest that the uncritical adoption of genAI in higher education poses problems for labor conditions, the integrity of intellectual property, and student learning on campuses, particularly under the conditions of austerity that are commonly found in public universities.

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tante @tante.cc · 1d

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 19h

I would love to have a chat with you about this because I know you know things from art that I absolutely do not, if you ever have time for me to pick your brains?!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22h

“‘When it comes to AI, the [Dunning-Kruger effect] vanishes,’ study senior author Robin Welsch, a professor at Aalto University, said in a statement about the work. ‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence.’”

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

futurism.com

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Mine Eyes Dazzle @evedazzle.bsky.social · 22h

Our academic library system made AI a bullet point requirement of our annual performance review last year but it was very broad. Mine ended up being a libguide that covered its pitfalls, problems, and failures. I refuse to "incorporate it" into my workflows.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22h

It seems like the only way tech companies are able to compel AI usage is by coercion in performance review processes?

(via The Information "AI Agenda" newsletter)

3. AI adoption is easier said than done. Even as executives pressure workers to use AI, getting people to do that throughout an organization is easier said than done. Rukmini Reddy, an engineering executive at incident management software maker PagerDuty, does so by making AI usage a part of her employees’ annual performance reviews. This strategy seems to be working, as she said that 98% of her engineers use coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code or Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot on a day-to-day basis now.

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 23h

Aw thank you

Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 1d

I got home to find that my wonderful husband had, on his way home from taking Dragon for her monthly injection, stopped by to pick up an oak gall ink painting of a curlew skull I'd been admiring in the local craft shop 🥹

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 1d

Just given a lecture on generative AI and ethics that students described as "exceptional", "the most engaging lecture they've had all semester", and which they appreciated the touching on fascism and eugenics around for personal reasons so do you know what, I'm just going to keep on doing my thing

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 1d

All this tells me is that Clarivate (pfeh) have identified Dunning-Kruger effect in senior librarian respondents (and I can hypothesise why)

Research Information @researchinfo.bsky.social · 1d

Libraries that invest in AI literacy “report greater confidence”
www.researchinformation.info/news/librari...
Clarivate Pulse of the Library Report points to growing maturity in library approaches to artificial intelligence
@clarivate.com

Libraries that invest in AI literacy "report greater confidence" - Research Information

Clarivate Pulse of the Library Report points to growing maturity in library approaches to artificial intelligence

www.researchinformation.info

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Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 1d

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 1d

Well it's still being used in training resources to influence assessment in HE, so unfortunately hasn't yet been dismantled point by point

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement

• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright

• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sorry but what in the everloving heck (no energy for alt text sorry)

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 8d

I personally am significantly more worried about the effects of LLMs and AI video slop on children’s brain development than I am about even social media. I am very worried that our school systems and laws are pushing kids toward AI artificial “friends” while banning social apps.

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah I think there are going to be more families who do the equivalent of “we don’t own a TV, we simply all sing madrigals around the piano by candlelight for entertainment” during these next decades. There isn’t a safe amount of AI slop for kids to be exposed to. So if a platform has it: then no.

Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 8d

NB TikTok is totally blocked on my kids’ devices, but thanks to the fact all their videos are fully downloadable (how is THAT legal) it’s inescapable - all big websites are now video scrolling services, even Spotify etc, and they’re all full of TikTok slop

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 2d

As we all know it's impossible to get a replacement, those library staff with their constant desire to not allow people to borrow books

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 2d

Unfair!!

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 2d

Ahhh congrats!

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social · 2d

All because I wouldn't let him take the library card that lives here away with him because the other one has been lost. Truly I am wicked!

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