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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 2d

I am glad Murderbot turned out good.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 2d

Before they’re done the men leading our major AI labs are gonna not only discover the secrets of intelligence but — more importantly — speed(re)run the history of 20c literary theory. They coulda just majored in English.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 4d

You’re allowed to influence anything… except whether and in what way the economy is regulated.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 4d

I am so happy to announce we’re starting a new major in LLM Prompting. I hear it’s the future.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 6d

I’m convinced. Gonna give this “reading” thing a try.

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 7d

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!

(Cover reveal soon!)

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 12d

Trying to explain to my 7yo what linear television was.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 13d

Pretty sure we’re gonna nuke that asteroid. You know, mostly as a show of strength.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 18d

Just learned the word “methodolatry” which I wish I’d learned sooner. 😜

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 19d

See, if you just wait long enough, reality will provide you with the perfect anecdote to open the conclusion of the book you are writing.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 19d

For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.

An AI Stan Lee Hologram Will Speak With Fans at L.A. Comic Con

For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 19d

Who knew living in a cyberpunk dystopia would be so boring.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 24d

Important also that students and faculty not be given or allowed to use email either. 🤔

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24d

If a college or university pledged to eliminate not only AI but screens from campus, outside dedicated labs, I would want very badly to teach there.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 24d

What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · 29d

I managed to leave just as the questions were getting hard! 🤪

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 29d

Just spontaneously pulled @lkonstan.bsky.social who was passing by in the hall into the grad seminar to talk about his Chronicle piece and that “robot stink.” www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

www.chronicle.com

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 7

The treatise is a whopping 750 KB!

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 7

👀

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Cake-Pop Demon Hunters" has proven to be too scary for the 7yo.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 6

only for books that they got via torrent is my understanding.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 6

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

Author and Publisher Contact Information | Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Surprised they didn't go the last mile and rename it the Department of War Crimes.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 5

I do like the notion/trend of paper-only classes. I wonder to what degree folks have gotten pushback on accomodations grounds.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 5

"As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of answering that question."

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Roy Scranton @royscranton.bsky.social · Sep 4

"None of the quotations attributed to Infomocracy appeared in the book."

A thrilling, scary essay from Lee Konstantinou in the Chronicle.

www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 4

I will say, it's also (obviously) an individual problem! Whether a journal editor should take the initiative to report a person who does this is a hard call; I would be inclined to. I do suspect that for every blatant case like this there are lots of subtler cases w/o hallucinated quotes.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

www.chronicle.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Like the wonks who worked for Information, I was holding the line against the ensloppification of academe, one false citation at a time …”

ensloppification is the new enshittification, and they’re both super gross

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

www.chronicle.com

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