Ayesha Ali as Sekhmet the Egyptian lioness of war and healing 🦁🔥🩸

@aiyanakoka.bsky.social as Inanna the Sumerian goddess of love/war and fertility 🌹🗡️✨

@michelleakline.bsky.social as Brigid the poet & smith 🛠️📜

@loraadair.bsky.social as Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic, crossroads & the night 🌙🗝️

And of course there are essays that seem like AI to me but the references are real, so there's nothing I can do. Once students learn to proofread the references 🤷‍♀️

At my uni I can and have reported it as fabrication. It's very difficult to prove misuse of AI but pretty easy to show that the essay relies on references that are fake. I don't know yet what the outcomes will be though!

This weekend I was at a doula training and found myself explaining this about LLMs. They will write you a pretty sentence full of imaginary facts.

It follows an anecdote of a person who had recovered from fever after the local woman healer opened all the windows to air out the sick room - after the Dr had closed the windows and had them stay in a feather bed on a hot summer day. They claimed the fever left in minutes after the woman intervened

The second is a FIVE YEAR fellowship! DEADLINE SEPT 4, details here: royalsociety.org/grants/royal... come hang out with us @brunelcce.bsky.social !!!

Someone told me once that they read my dissertation and I screamed "NOOOO!" hahahahaha