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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 2d

Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 2d

This is an excellent thread on the issue of using generative AI in research. One very important point is that evaluating research & research-based arguments requires work done by human agency. A machine cannot change its mind, because a machine has no mind.

Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 2d

Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations! 🎉

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 12d

My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 13d

I want to send *both* books to someone who'd find my work useful! (PP in paperback, GR in hardback—note it's also available as a free PDF! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...) If that's you, just *quote-post* this thread, and I'll pick a recipient next week 😊 (To share without entering, just repost!)

Photo of two books lying stacked on a shelf. Top spine reads 'Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership', bottom spine reads 'Princely Power in Late Medieval France'. Behind is a miniature gothic pillar in reddish stone.

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe I'm just being daft here, but what's the issue with an atheist responding "no" to this question?

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 14d

"Can I call you back? I'm stuck in an O at the moment."

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711; Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"; second half of the 12th century; p.18 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 15d

Dear Pew Research,

Please ask if people believe in the Parousia. They’ll all say No because they don’t know that word but it’s a better question and the results will be funny.

Sincerely,

The CTSA

Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 15d

fwiw “do you think Jesus will come back to Earth” is so ambiguously phrased that I’d probably say “No” at least half the time depending on what they meant by “to Earth.”

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 16d

This is a problem.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 25d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · 25d

As I read it the summary is just a numerical grade for each of the marking criteria and it sounds like the AI is meant to just spit out a rephrasing of the relevant entries in the marking criteria... not that this is much better, but could maybe save time?

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 26d

'sickos' vocitantur, de eo quod per fenestram ridentes, 'ha ha ha... sic!' clamant -Isidorus Hispalensis

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · Sep 11

While this is interestin, it seems a bit much to go from "metal production continued in one former urban centre" to (as is being suggested here) "there was no major economic shock after Roman rule," in the face of all the other archaeological evidence suggesting that there was, of whatever rapidity.

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Sep 11

NEW Britain's economy did not collapse after the #Romans left

A new, unbroken timeline of British metal production from the 5th century AD to the present day questions the idea of a post-Roman 'Dark Age'.

Strap in for an industrious #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵

🏺 #Archaeology

Two archaeologists excavating in a trench.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Sep 11

One thing I wish would come up in common discourse on justifying why it's good to learn ancient languages is it gets you used to the idea that a dictionary entry is a repertory of a lot of meanings which are defined by lots of contexts and we often don't know exactly what all or any of them mean

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · Sep 10

Well English is mostly a vibes based language anyways, so it's perhaps not surprising that people take the same approach to its meaning.

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · Sep 10

That is quite the display of reading comprehension on the part of that editor...

Horace Mann, The lives of the popes in the early middle ages, vol. 4 (St Louis, 1910), 264 n. 2.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Sep 4

Absolute nightmare. Please do not let this happen @mark-carney.bsky.social As a Canadian citizen I am absolutely horrified by this proposal. This is not Canada is about 🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/....

'Major risk' of bias against some groups with Canadian AI border screening, expert warns | CBC News

The technology will help identify compliant travellers faster and free them up to focus on unknown and higher-risk travellers, according to the CBSA. It's expected to launch at land ports of entry by ...

www.cbc.ca

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Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · Sep 1

West should be the 'death of humanity' (hominis mortem), not the 'mountain of humanity' (hominis montem).

Eric Wolever @ewolever.bsky.social · Aug 27

In common parlance and in the writings of Petrarch himself(!): "there was a more fortunate age and probably there will be one again; in the middle, in our time, you see the confluence of wretches and ignominy". (Petrarch, Epistolae metricae 3.33, ll.4-6.)

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Mark Thakkar @brunellus.com · Aug 27

New Wyclif polemic discovered! Only 250 words long, but not obviously detached from a larger work. It isn’t ascribed to him in the manuscript (no titulus or colophon) but the style is recognizably his. I’m posting it here because the content is eerily topical. #medievalLatin #medievalSky #genAI

Transcription: “Inter omnes cautelas diaboli per quas seducit hodie ociantes in scolis, nulla est detestabilior, fugibilior vel a veritate distancior quam istud caput eneum noviter machinatum. Quamvis enim laudetur a doctoribus novellis, de quibus loquitur apostolus Actuum vicesimo ubi signanter dicit quod ex vobismet ipsis exsurgent viri loquentes perversa, verumtamen patet non cecatis quod omne tale artificiale nedum est inutile sed nocivum. Nam tamquam Titivillus solummodo colligit fragmina scriptorum et indigesta evomit, nec intelligens scripta aliorum nec verba ex ore suo prolata, sed ad tantum infatuantur fautores eius quod credunt istis simulatis sentenciis ac si a deo procederent. Nec mirum si quandoque vera balbuciat per accidens, sicut dicit Crisostomus quod concessum est diabolo interdum dicere veritatem ut mendacium suum rara veritate commendet, quia non curat sive vera sive falsa dixerit dummodo servaverit regulas grammatice. Nec obest quod ei innitentes pompant se tempori parcere, quia noverunt experti quod, ut dicitur Ecclesiastes primo, qui addit scienciam addit laborem. Si ergo ad scienciam veritatis pervenire voluerimus, tempus impendere pocius quam reservare debemus; ymmo, ut dicit Ambrosius super Lucam, frustra congregat opes qui se his nescit usurum. Incidunt ergo tales sompniantes in illud ve propheticum Isaie quinto: Ve qui dicitis bonum malum et malum bonum, ponentes tenebras lucem et lucem tenebras. Et proch pudor verba ficta istius pseudocapitis sunt eo diligencius precavenda quo moderni doctores, eciam qui videntur esse aliquid, sunt iam proniores ad eius usui annuendum, tamquam canes muti non valentes latrare. Heu! ut dicitur Trenorum quarto, qui nutriebantur in croceis amplexati sunt stercora.”

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Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social · Aug 26

I finally got my author copies. I'm building a nice little collection in my office.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Aug 25

INDO-EUROPEAN #1: *h₁ey, *knh₃ck *knh₃ck

INDO-EUROPEAN #2: *kʷo's *thh₂re?

IE 1: *Larry

IE 2: *Larry *kʷo?

IE 1: Laryngeal! 😁

IE 2: ...

IE 1: *gh₂ddit? 🤣

IE 2: that was so bad I think we need to all get in our chariots and head out in all directions just to get as far away as we can from you

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Aug 23

Divination may seem silly but it's been done throughout history! There are several forms:

Sortes Biblicae, opening the Bible at random
Sortes Vergilianae, opening the Aeneid at random
Sortes AI, asking a regurgitated pile of slop whether you should add sulfuric acid to your chili for an extra kick

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dismayed to see the imminent demise of Digizeitschriften (like JSTOR for German-language journals). Anyone know the backstory? www.digizeitschriften.de/page/faq

Digizeitschriften

www.digizeitschriften.de

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