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"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Damien Williams
Assistant professor of philosophy and data science
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Assistant Prof Philosophy & Data Science
PhD Science, Technology, & Society
MA Philosophy & Religious Studies
"AI" Criticality; Centering Marginalized Lived Experiences in Tech; Magic; Human Knowledge, Values, Culture, & Beliefs
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Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette news.harvard.edu
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The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com
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Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll nature.com
AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations rollingstone.com
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AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com
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Damien Williams reposted
“There’s never any discussion about 'Whose BODY is this?'...” www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1...
This nature survey on "AI" attitudes is a pretty blunt instrument. Seven questions, two of which are demographic, and none of which get granular about what they mean by either "AI" or "use." We need to have been doing better than this, and we're really going to need to start, …
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"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
Damien Williams reposted
“The likelihood of PII appearing in AI training data is only increasing as public data ‘runs out’ and AI companies look for new sources of high-quality training data. This includes information from data brokers and people-search websites.”
Damien Williams reposted
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
Damien Williams reposted
How AI Plans to Buy 2026 This election should be a slam dunk for Democrats. There are billions of reasons it absolutely is not. I'm going Paul Revere on this one and connecting the dots. One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told.
I said it before & I'll say it again: Any company trying to integrate "generative AI" into their workflow needs someone w/ veto power whose sole job it is to ask "…Okay, but can you prove it actually *does* [thing company wants to apply it for]?" & to Keep asking until they ge…
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“Starbucks aimed to use the app to help solve product shortages but found that it confused product names or missed items altogether when performing inventory counts.”
I mean, there are plenty of people who know how to do a good survey, but a lot of have institutional constraints. In the broader research sphere, @pewresearch.org's work is pretty much gold-standard; here's some of their work on "AI" attitudes and impacts: 1) www.pewresearch.o…
There's too many good used bookstores, my local small shop is Great, and bookshop dot org exists. Fuck b&n if it comes to it.
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- Barnes & Noble will stock AI-written books if labeled transparently and free of copyright infringement, per CEO James Daunt.
- Daunt admitted the existing 300,000-title catalog may already contain AI-generated books the retailer cannot identify.
- Author backlash has reframed the debate around whether major retailers have a curation duty beyond disclosure requirements.
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Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process (2024) online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article... bsky.app/profile/wolv...
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Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"
Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.
They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:
I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025). In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…
Reminder that you Can just cite lectures: Williams, D.P., 2023, October. On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’ In Forum in Ethics, Law, & Society Lecture Series, hosted by the Sonoma State University Philosophy Department’s Center for Ethics, Law & Society.