“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

There is a whole micro-industry in edtech market valuation that aims to support investors to price their investments - and humongous figures like the $8t conjured up by big financial orgs surely help prop up edtech markets even when markets look bad www.holoniq.com/notes/edtech...

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

My entire verbal relationship with my spouse is shot through with Simpsons’ quotes. It is a rare day that one doesn’t come out of one of our mouths, even though we stopped watching it actively 15 years ago.

The fact that I looked at that headline and thought “oh, that’s the guy who charts his nighttime boners and compares them to his teenage son and also once shot his face full of someone else’s fat” suggests I’ve spent more time than any of us deserves to reading anything at all about him

Note: he is a professor at the Wharton School of Business. Most of his early 2023 gushing work on “creativity” and generative AI was focused on ad campaigns.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Ruha Benjamin, online Tuesday Sept 30 at 7 Central! Click to register. If you're in Lawrence, it's at Liberty Hall, free and open to the public (no tickets required). (Bonus: Conversation 10 - 11 am Oct 1 at the Hall Center)
calendar.ku.edu/event/ruha-b...

Don’t forget that they needed new guidelines because they were caught with “guidelines” that allowed for their chatbot to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual."

"AI use has doubled at work since 2023 from 21% to 40%, per Gallup, yet 95% of organizations don’t see a measurable return on their investment in the tech, according to a recent MIT Media Lab report." #TLsky

www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/a...

my faith in humanity is renewed

“(…) what gets repeatedly ignored is this fundamental paradox: GenAI’s architecture absolutely depends on consciously taken actions that would stand in violation of any of our institutions’ academic-integrity policies.” @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

www.chronicle.com/article/some... 2/n

i don't even know what to say anymore about these kinds of stories. what more does it take for AI enthusiasts to finally wince?

Right?!?

To be fair, the prickly pear brain on the right looks riper so I’d probably eat that one

I did try it! I don't remember what I used (thread, maybe? yarn next to a gap? too long ago) And of course it's hard to get the guts to slam a door when you know it's gonna hurt, but spoiler: it hurts when you don't slam it hard enough, either. More, even. 😬 THAT I remember!

I remember doing this at least once as a kid. I can still conjure up the feeling of the string yanking and the door bouncing back. Thankfully I did not get it in the face.

🔨✊

Underrated post

“Keeping our learning environment free of AI use is a principled response to the techno-bro-driven future forcing its way through our classroom doors.”

A 🔥🔥🔥 piece throughout.

On the necessity to refuse AI and narratives of inevitably: "Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis and environmental destruction to continue unimpeded."

Leave my files where I fucking put them, microsoft, and don't fucking touch them unless or in anyway otherwise than how I tell you to.