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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

307 trust researcher @ubiquity75.xyz · 24,695 followers
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Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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“As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.

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This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ 404media.co
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  • 404 Media's Jason Koebler documents ChatGPT-designed flyers for surf lessons, skate shop closeouts, drug deliveries, World Cup parties, junk hauling and fundraisers.
  • The shared look — bright text on dark backgrounds, generic icon boxes, decorative lines, arrows and checkmarks — has become so recognizable it reads as a template.
  • A viral Threads post asking 'ain't nobody gonna address this ChatGPT flyer pandemic' has spread to Instagram and Facebook among designers, musicians and bar owners.
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They STEM students are all very aware that tech debt is going to come for all of us, too, as described in this article, which I read to the class yesterday (second time this week I gave a dramatic reading of a 404 article): www.404media.co/software-dev...

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co
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“The new company, Sausage Link, Inc….” Jeff Dean is the guy who forced out several women researchers at Google who wrote a paper warning of the flaws of LLM-based products. Btw.

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I don't know what's wrong with my academic colleagues who seem to have had their brains completely switched into the "off" position by AI propaganda, but the results are staggering. I just heard a faculty member sincerely and seriously claim that "in the next month, coding will be obsolete." ...

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I'm going to do something I may never have done before, and share a major upside of the imposition of AI on everyone: It is uniting people from across the political spectrum, and in their local communities, to come together for collective opposition like no issue I recall in my memory. So, thanks?

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Story from the trenches of the insidiousness of AI hallucinations. This is from my friend, a leading researcher in the health sector, loosely speaking:

View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 7 ↩ 3 · 95d ago

So,uh… are we talking about OpenAI and Hugging Face or?

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