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#sora #aiethics #aivideo #ailiteracy #deepfakes #openai #cybersecurity | Jon Ippolito

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 1d

Funny how the same tech moguls who side with politicians dismantling government in the name of efficiency happen to make their money off of the most top-heavy, bloated software around (*cough* PeopleSoft)

Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 4d

Good introduction to Larry Ellison here, covers the essential questions about CBS News + Tik Tok (and maybe CNN).
We don't know what he'll do yet, but his vision of the future is a bit scary.
(I'm quoted)

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 4d

lol former Oracle exec: "I remember earlier in my career when I told people I was working for Oracle they would say, ‘Oh you mean the toothbrush company,' and I would say, 'not Oral B, Oracle'

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 1d

True! And I like to point out that whenever you build an AI detection mechanism, you are also handling AI engineers a test against which to train their next model.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 1d

The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point. Detection advocates will counter that sure, visible marks lik...

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 2d

This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...

Ken Jacobs inspecting one of his projectors, ca. 1995

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 3d

Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org

A screenshot of the speakers bureau from Learning With AI with a grid of names and a tag cloud for filtering by expertise

#edtech #k12 #instructionaldesign #aiethics #aiineducation #privacy #surveillance | Jon Ippolito

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 9d

We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 11d

Yeah, it's like let 100 flowers bloom except it's kudzu

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 11d

Will AI in the classroom mean students asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework, or strapping on a headband that streams their brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, teachers are already policing attention with the latter www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

Will AI-powered education mean asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework—or strapping on a headband that streams your brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, the latter is already here. At ...

#aiethics #aivideo #aiineducation #ailiteracy #llm #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 15d

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

I've updated the What Uses More calculator with new research this week that makes the environmental footprint of AI video potentially far higher than I thought. On Tuesday Julien Delavande, Régis Pie...

#highered #aiethics #aiineducation #ailiteracy #generativeai #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 16d

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

The impact of AI on education may ultimately have less to do with AI itself and more with the habits it forces us to shed, both in classrooms and in our digital lives. This week I talked with Lew Lud...

Why This AI Startup Thinks It Can Compete With Nvidia

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 24d

Will a new startup topple Nvidia's dominance with more efficient AI chips? I suggest it may not make much difference to AI's environmental footprint in this piece from Inc. magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/w...

Positron is betting on cost-efficient AI hardware in a bid to take on Nvidia, the industry behemoth.

www.inc.com

What Uses More? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 28d

Playing with @jonippolito.net's app What Uses More to compare generating an AI image with streaming Netflix for an hour or storing 5 GB in the cloud.

How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com

Compare the energy and water footprint of AI and digital activities.

what-uses-more.com

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 28d

Yes thanks Ryan! A colleague of mine studies Permaculture so we sometimes discuss its relationship to Permacomputing.

A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 28d

Thanks Reed. Unlike Mistral's recent findings, OpenAI's blog post didn't clarify the number of tokens assumed per query. That's like comparing the amount of gas required to pick up groceries without specifying whether the store is next-door or across town. Easily an order of magnitude difference.

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · 28d

I guess it's a step toward a more democratic solution compared to high-profile lawsuits by high-profile creators against high-profile AI companies. But without a plan to let everyone share in the proceeds, it feels like copium at this point.

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 4

A worthy source to subscribe to 👍

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 3

It was behind a paywall when I checked.

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Sep 3

Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...

The front page of artistsnclients.com with the word "hacked" stamped on it.

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 29

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 29

Trying not to blame @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social for manifesting the textpocalypse...

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 29

"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...

#opensource #aicoding #aiethics #textpocalypse | Jon Ippolito

In another sign of a looming AI textpocalypse, open source maintainers are seeing a 20-40% rise in bogus bug reports that are just fishing for bounties. What’s remarkable is that submitters using AI ...