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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 23h

Hit that 0% tutorial attendance

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 2d

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a woman singing with the words work work work work work behind her

Alt: Video of Rihanna. A young black woman with bobbed black hair singing with the words work work work work work behind her.

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 3d

Adding this to my “please don’t use AI” message to students

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 5d

End of week 9 and I have written my week 10-12 lectures!!!

a man is giving a speech in front of a sign that says rusted leadership for a stronger america

Alt: Jeb Bush saying please clap. An older white man with grey hair and glasses and wearing a dark grey jumper is giving a speech with four people sitting behind him.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 6d

Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years.

It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur.

This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind.

Heartbroken.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

How cancel culture came for everyone

Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 6d

One of these guys is a Victorian poetry scholar 😮‍💨

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 6d

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college

The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

www.smh.com.au

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 7d

Never become your own REF impact case study

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7d

What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 6d

Week 9: 14%
Will I dip below 10% for the remainder of the semester?

Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 13d

Cruising at a 23% attendance rate for tutorials 😬

Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 6d

One of these guys is a Victorian poetry scholar 😮‍💨

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 6d

'A former deputy head of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, McInerney has also argued the White Australia Policy did not go far enough and that white Australians may need to live in separate neighbourhoods as a form of “tactical retreat”.'

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The far-right figures teaching students at a Sydney college

The dean of studies says the country will need political parties for white Australians. A senior lecturer wants an Anglo-Celtic club to inspire fear in “leftist thugs”.

www.smh.com.au

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 7d

Never become your own REF impact case study

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7d

What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7d

What company to keep. What a journey.

It's really something to read Goodwin's 'impact case study' from REF2014. Far right extremism: against it before he was for it.
impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies/...

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 7d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 7d

Only at the weekends

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 8d

Amen!

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · Aug 25

Would like to go a single semester of my career without precarity, strikes or redundancies. Please just function higher ed!

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · Jun 21

I can’t detect all ChatGPT use but if you repeatedly invent quotes from your primary and secondary sources it’s pretty clear you’ve not done the work 🫠

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t want to do your job, you can leave! People are desperate to teach at universities, let them do it!

Richard B. Simon @rbsimon.bsky.social · 11d

A student told me Thursday that another prof had told the class to post their work into an AI LLM, to be graded and commented on by the AI. The other students were all offended. Which is good. They should be offended.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 10d

Future generations are going to demand to know why universities were rushing to deskill their students in the 2020s, at a time when high level expertise and critical thinking in so many disciplines was more vital to humanity and the planet than ever...

Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 14d

Having a cry because AI is now allowed in all our essay assessments from 2026.

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