Wilfredo Flores, PhD
@wilflores.bsky.social
Sleepy professor tenure-tracking in the South. 👨🏻🌾
All opinions are mine, of course, and I’m probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
All opinions are mine, of course, and I’m probably missing my cat.
www.wilfredoflores.com
I don’t want to grade; I want to go down, down, down by the riverrrrrr 🥲
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I don’t want to grade; I want to go down, down, down by the riverrrrrr 🥲
Another benefit of teaching my writing theory class using the four Octalogs of our field is that, because each text has eight speakers and additional commentators, AI models get VERY confused when trying to cite from them—and I can tell when a student has used AI to generate the citation.
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another benefit of teaching my writing theory class using the four Octalogs of our field is that, because each text has eight speakers and additional commentators, AI models get VERY confused when trying to cite from them—and I can tell when a student has used AI to generate the citation.
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
FKA Twigs, Eartheater, and Atlanta for my sabbatical 😍
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
FKA Twigs, Eartheater, and Atlanta for my sabbatical 😍
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i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
i'm told chatgpt had a birthday
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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
I've written 10 letters of recommendation for students just in the last academic year. 🫨
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I've written 10 letters of recommendation for students just in the last academic year. 🫨
We are pleased to inform you that, to course correct for an over-abundance of gay guys, we're focusing solely on bisexual white women.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are pleased to inform you that, to course correct for an over-abundance of gay guys, we're focusing solely on bisexual white women.
Girl, if there's one thing white queer scholars will do it's cite an ontological proposition specific to a non-white experience and void the contextual elements to say, "Well, actually, ALL queers."
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Girl, if there's one thing white queer scholars will do it's cite an ontological proposition specific to a non-white experience and void the contextual elements to say, "Well, actually, ALL queers."
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job 🥰
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I can't wait til my job gets less busy so I can do my job 🥰
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A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
A Year of Refusal
Maggie Fernandes, University of ArkansasMegan McIntyre, University of ArkansasJennifer Sano-Franchini, West Virginia University Photo by Francis Glenn Marciano on Pexels.com It’s been about a year …
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal"
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...
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The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4–5 PM ET.
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The second CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Generative AI in the Writing Classroom is on Wed, Dec 10 @ 4–5 PM ET.
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Looking forward to discussing @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage w/@hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social!
Working on a conference paper draft, and I had to dive into Notion for something I wrote in grad school. My goodness—the whole thing is just AI this and AI that. Gross.
October 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Working on a conference paper draft, and I had to dive into Notion for something I wrote in grad school. My goodness—the whole thing is just AI this and AI that. Gross.
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THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN
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
October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN
If I see one more person say, “We have to teach our students how to use AI because they’ll need those *skills* when they get a job.” Girl. There’s not going to be jobs for the students.
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If I see one more person say, “We have to teach our students how to use AI because they’ll need those *skills* when they get a job.” Girl. There’s not going to be jobs for the students.
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Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
October 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
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AI is not, as techno-libertarians would like you to believe, an act of God to which society must adapt. It’s an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
September 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
AI is not, as techno-libertarians would like you to believe, an act of God to which society must adapt. It’s an experiment a very small band of very rich people decided to work upon the rest of us. And they have their reasons. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
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kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
September 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ
To my surprise, I impressed a data science major who minors in my department by telling them I write everything in Markdown and know it by heart at this point. 🤓
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
To my surprise, I impressed a data science major who minors in my department by telling them I write everything in Markdown and know it by heart at this point. 🤓
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating
“The memo — in the form of fresh guidelines on how to talk to and evaluate answers from Apple’s upcoming new artificial intelligence model — appeared to have been retooled following Trump’s return to the White House…”
The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”
The topics include “diversity,” “elections,” and “vaccines.”
Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era
Apple policy documents enacted by a subcontractor show how the company shifted its approach to fine-tuning its AI in March, two months after the U.S. president was inaugurated.
www.politico.eu
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is the political project every AI booster in higher education is facilitating
Not to be too shady, but what are we doing when someone’s work as a professor of rhetoric and composition with AI and writing involves bringing in a bunch of ed tech people into their classroom (which, personally, leaves me incredibly suspicious) AND collaborating with people funded by OpenAI?
September 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Not to be too shady, but what are we doing when someone’s work as a professor of rhetoric and composition with AI and writing involves bringing in a bunch of ed tech people into their classroom (which, personally, leaves me incredibly suspicious) AND collaborating with people funded by OpenAI?
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.