It's gonna be sold as a luxury novelty at first then will be used to take real healthcare away from poor people.

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

We don't know anything yet.

That performance is one of my favorites of all time.

The New York Times minimizing the unconstitutional assault on US cities so much that it didn't appear on the "front page" even on my big screen monitor. Had to export a pdf to capture the tiny headline. Truly atrocious. Does any major US news org care at all?

Add to that the repercussions for the environment and dangers of environmental racism, and most concluded that the costs far outweighed the benefits.

By the end of the class, some students still wanted limited use of AI, but most advocated for it to be banned completely. They didn't want to use my work without my consent, and if they couldn't upload my slides to ChatGPT, the platform was rendered mostly useless for them anyway.

I talked about how much work goes into making good slides. I said that feeding those slides to the model was a way of helping LLMs steal that work from me.

So I asked that students not use it to make study sheets, or generate comments for discussion.

I stated this clearly: I was under no illusion that students could use LLMs however they wanted, but I did not give consent to feed any of my own materials from this class to any LLMs.

Also, I used the Anthropic case as an example, and disclosed that my own work had been stolen and used to train models.

What's new this year is that we had the convo in lecture 4 -- after they had learned a bit about racial capitalism (the topic of the class). This meant students readily connected the dots between LLMs and environmental racism, and labor exploitation.

We first discussed how students use AI, and its costs & benefits. Here I'm non-judgmental and empathetic. Saving time really matters for stressed people under capitalism! Higher ed sorts by cultural capital and that's unfair!

So far, this is exactly what I have done in all of my other classes.

Every quarter, in every undergrad class, I talk with students about what should be included in our LLM AI policy.

For the first time, most of the class decided that we should not allow AI at all.

Here's how we got there . . .

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It's a real mire, which makes me think that this would be an ideal time to do a study of the social construction of public opinion.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Vader was a *delight* at cocktail parties, I'm told. And he always brought the most thoughtful house warming gifts.

Thanks to the discourse I have had Blondie in my head all day.

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

What movie do you consider “perfect?”

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And what's resurrected is the singer's sense of wonder after falling for a manic pixie dream girl biologist