To rephrase -- the "Pledge of Allegiance," recited by millions of U.S. school children daily (except for those who don't as a matter of free exercise of religion, etc) recite words authored by a Christian socialist.

WWJD bracelets? Created after a church group read a work by a Christian socialist.

One unhinged AI-authored sentence or clause and one quote from a classic piece of literature as a little treat. Bonus for a fully transliterated Arabic or Amharic sentence.

I'll give it a try -- thanks for the tip!

And, yes, I've tried other approaches. OCRmyPDF on Github created a reasonable copy, but even it noted in its workflow that the diacritics were a serious problem.

I'm absolutely open to the Bluesky hive-mind (nest mind?) helping out here. I'm willing to test other platforms. I'd hire students to help -- but my university cut Arabic. So, no students to hire. There are manual fixes to this problem, but they're time consuming (roughly 5-10 minutes per fatwa).

I also laughed when it said these PDFs were a "worse case scenario." There are *billions* of dollars poured into AI platforms. If they are supposed to be good at *anything* it's pattern recognition.

I have almost 1,800 fatwas to process. Probably over 4-6,000 pages. Maybe ChatGPT 5.2 will fix it!

Same! I'd love to see a breakdown.

And, as @jackjenkins.me reports -- we know that Mamdani canvassed religious institutions, observances thoroughly

bsky.app/profile/jack...

In that post, Elsevier promises that humans will continue to be part of the review process. Yes, sure -- so long as universities value that labor. But, increasingly, many will not, and when they are no longer available, I trust that Elsevier will offer further A.I. use as another "optimization."/end

As U.S. universities demand frequent production & citation churn, they will create the conditions that will continue to erode the deliberate, human researcher and subject-centered approach to academic work. Deliberation and time will be replaced by fast-twitch A.I. authored & reviewed articles.

Oh, and A.I. use was "responsibly" disclosed by Elsevier on the article that they used to ... write the article on how AI will be used in future journal article evaluations.

Where does this end up? Having captured the rankings mechanism of U.S. universities, it seems likely that what Elseiver will develop is a new set of products for universities to buy. Prepare to subscribe to Elsevier's A.I. assistant, which will optimize a researcher's submissions for review.