All LinkedIn posts are slop. The AI-slop ones are, at least, more earnest in their sloppishness, because intention and outcome are aligned (if in a hidden way). Threads is like this too. (Bluesky as well, but on this platform ppl believe they exist above slop, which is slop's …
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
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- LinkedIn added a 'seems like AI slop' option to the three-dot menu on posts; selecting it hides the post from the user's feed.
- Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said user flags will feed classifiers LinkedIn is 'ramping up' to detect slop and low-quality content.
- Detection service Pangram estimated 41 percent of long-form and 30 percent of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated.
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Sorry to post about philosophy, but as a panexperientialist who has spent 15 years failing to get that idea to catch on, both (pan)psychism and (pan)vitalism were bad ideas that are seductive because we humans are self-centered and like to think of ourselves as the measure of …
Could AI be conscious? theguardian.com
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Lovely piece. But I found myself looking up at the clouds that have been looming above the situation for years: The mounting irrelevance of literary fiction; that reading has been "self-conscious, hyperaware, restless, and anxiety-driven" for years; the outmoding of style by j…
Why Reading Is Now Restless theatlantic.com
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Colleges and universities haven't been sites of honor for a long time—if indeed they ever were; "honor" might just have meant the residue of wealth's trappings. It is not becoming clear that honor isn't even an aspirational value, hasn't been for some time, and only achievemen…
Can—and Should—Honor Codes Survive in the AI Age? insidehighered.com
A computer—even a fancy one—isn't alive, and it doesn't have a brain. Instead, it's merely *interesting*—a compelling device that can pretend to be lots of others.
The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation theatlantic.com
I wrote about the AI commencement booing, which I do not think means quite what everyone is assuming it means (and which they appear to be assuming in the easy-thinking way that all thinking, with or without AI, seems to have become). Gift link.
Why College Students Are Booing AI theatlantic.com
