Lori Emerson

from the Editor in Chief of Science: "Rigorous human checking of AI-generated research papers is creating bottlenecks as publishers strive to maintain the integrity of the scientific record. The challenge is requiring even more human effort, making the whole endeavor slower an…

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"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/w…

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com

it is distinctly starting to feel the same as "Oh I Keep Picking The Wrong People to Be My Friends"..."Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster...stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more." www.404media.co/protons-ceo-...

Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’ 404media.co

University of California IT employees form biggest tech worker union in the US! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/they-just-...

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"Imagine you purchase bread for a sandwich but then discover that your toaster refuses to work because the bread is ‘unauthorised’. You read the toaster’s terms and conditions and find that it had lots of ‘rules’ on what you could or couldn’t do with the toaster, [1/2]

[2603.18964] Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services arxiv.org

Pope Leo on #AI: "while 'intelligence' is attributed to computational systems, we struggle to recognize the inalienable dignity of human persons, whose lives are judged according to the criterion of efficiency &, when deemed no longer productive, are rejected & discarded" apne…

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"vibe citing" is so 2026 www.cityam.com/kpmg-report-...

KPMG report on AI found riddled with AI hallucinations cityam.com

waitaminute. did I just watch an ad on Peacock for ChatGPT featuring a woman in her 70s…am I right in doubting that the “young people” and “middle aged people” markets have not become so saturated they had to move on to baby boomers?

I know very little about Lacan--but nonetheless a bit floored by this tidbit from 1954-55 #cybernetics #ai

even if it continues to be necessary, it's as if AI discourse always had a flavor--a not particularly good one, like rancid peanuts, one that I can't imagine anyone is fond of, and now I am so very tired of that flavor and yearn for another!

and some days you get to read a dissertation on corporate AI that is so richly and smartly funny and fine-tuned: "Like a disappointing husband, the corporation weaponizes its incompetence."

I was on KGNU radio this morning (long time community radio station in Boulder) to talk CU x AI and damn it's fun being on the radio, especially w/a host who describes himself as "a paranoid old Jew" & likes to quote from Marx. also, taking live phone calls on the air? yes please! #othernetworks

whereupon one awakes to notifications about payments one in fact never authorized on Paypal and one discovers, after an hour of dead-end emails and searching, that Paypal seems to have simply replaced all customer support with AI bots who, within minutes, deny one's requests for reimbursement.

curious to know whether a website with double spacing indicates it's been AI-generated? I am feeling increasingly clumsy with my ability to discern what's AI-gen and what's not---

some kind of AI assistant being run in/on Cambridge Dictionary has determined that "misunderstanding" is the word of the day. (almost as interesting is trying to imagine the person using the Cambridge Dictionary who also wouldn't know what "misunderstanding" means.)