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Ernesto Priego
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Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Editor @comicsgrid.com. Co-organised @comicsandai.org. Sharing; reposting is not endorsement. Absolutely personal capacity. I am human. UK based. https://linktr.ee/ernestopriego

Art 32%
Computer science 25%

💥New: Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI

✍️ @eve.gd

#CreativeCommons #ScholComm #AcWri
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk

Oops. Seems the quoted post in the post I quoted has now been deleted. Most likely due to overwhelming critical response.

I knew students would be tempted, and most likely did (particularly as some skipped the whole "log in to the University library first" instruction and went to Google, with embedded Gemini on it), but I was not going to be the one to tell them to use it to compare. Sod that.

In my literature review tutorial this term students had to design strategies for search for literature on uses of LLMs for literature review across databases and then compare results. The exercise intentionally did not include GenAI chatbots (say ChatGPT).

Ditto.
Sorry, but why does every single person who thinks of this believe they’re the only person in the world to think of this? FWIW, as others have said, yes, students can and will use LLMs to reflect on the LLM’s initial response. (That’s also not what a primary source is but whatever.)

Indeed. See also bsky.app/profile/erne...
"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org

Feeds, Feelings, and Focus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Cognitive and Mental Health Correlates of Short-Form Video Use psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org

"Currently, there is no cure for long-COVID-induced brain fog and fatigue" [July 2024] www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #LongCovid
Post-COVID-19 condition, brain fog, and fatigue—what do we know now?
“I could not remember how to spell words … [I] also found I was missing words from sentences and sometimes writing things that did not make sense.”
www.thelancet.com

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Sorry, but why does every single person who thinks of this believe they’re the only person in the world to think of this? FWIW, as others have said, yes, students can and will use LLMs to reflect on the LLM’s initial response. (That’s also not what a primary source is but whatever.)

Kind reminder this is the type of ads most people (including students; staff) are getting bombarded with online www.youtube.com/watch?v=COlB...
Get it done with Google AI
YouTube video by Google Ads
www.youtube.com

Saying "this is just another periodical platform shift" doesn't quite cover nor justify the significant singularities of the AI (but really what people mean is GenAI) phenomenon

Always interesting there is zero mention on how exactly "AI" works, the resources it requires, the actual social costs of simply replacing "interns" with automation, etc.

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In my youth, fall heralded the arrival of new sitcoms and Chevrolets. Now it brings a new Benedict Evans presentation: AI eats the world
www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.
www.ben-evans.com

Relevant til the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hfv...
Refugees (Dance Version)
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
www.youtube.com

"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org

I concur.

"Hardening of anti-immigrant rhetoric in society could drive more foreign doctors away from a “less welcoming” UK, the General Medical Council warns." BMJ 2025; 391 doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... (Published 21 November 2025)

I share this _here_ because it's about _here_.

Even after all these years I am amazed at how social media has blurred, redefined previous boundaries between the private and the public- stuff you used to tell / ask only your closest and dearest is now posted openly to 52.6K followers and it's considered the norm.

"Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are seamlessly blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins."

Happy Monday. Teaching term week 9 of 11.

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A case that AI in the classroom needs to be addressed as a social issue rather than as an arms race.

joshuapnudell.com/2025/11/22/a...
AI in the Classroom is a Social Problem
A case that AI in the classroom needs to be addressed as a social issue rather than as an arms race.
joshuapnudell.com

llendo/yendo, ya no sé escribir. Hablando de. Sigh. Perdón.

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.

One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.

What could go wrong?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com

Gracias. Sí, vi la cubertura llendo directamente a los respectivos diarios, pero es que en serio buscándole en Google, incluso bajo News, con los términos correctos, nada.