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Cognitive scientist working on AI critique
What a surprise ….. “Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
When an "AI" provider announces a new result, remember they have a product to sell. Watch for the careful and systematic ways human labour is elided at every step and claims about the model and the 'discovery' process are shielded from direct inspection Today's specimen: opena…
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media. Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
Today in AI in education is cop shit: "BusPatrol’s cameras would take a photo of each car a bus drives past, record the car’s license plate and GPS location, and then law enforcement can query that data."
Conscientious objection should be absolutely normalised, independent of religion. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
@olivia.science @kh0rish.bsky.social I'm getting a LOT of criti-hype vibes from this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...
Disinformation machines: "A March 2025 study from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that more than 60 percent of responses from AI-powered search engines were inaccurate. A BBC study puts the wrongness of chatbots closer to 45 percent" www.wired.com/story/fact-c...?
"AI" is a PSYOP exhibit #234183 « "We deliberately limit enrollment opportunities, create waiting lists even when capacity exists, and establish application windows that close regardless of capacity—triggering the scarcity psychology that accelerates decisions and enhances per…
Mayo Clinic has been using Ambient Listening for a couple years at this point, but not all patients may be aware the recording is ongoing. www.404media.co/mayo-clinic-...
The second half of this article really heats up. It shows that when a journalist does the most basic part of their job - to figure out if what people say has any correspondence with truth - they bust a lot of AI ed tech scams. Gift Link:
If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:
Sometimes seeing people I liked, studied with, became friends with at conferences over the past 15 years become AI boosters actually hurts my feelings. Other times it was fully predictable because they only did degrees to work for Google or IBM back in the day or to start a weird little start-up.
we have to take a step back and ask: who prefers to talk round & round in circles instead of positive change in the world? to go to battle over words instead of deeper ideas & even more importantly actually fighting AI? the answers are who are the (accidental maybe) sell outs and the crypto fash
Has anybody else noticed that with the yankification of UK politics for example we also have yankification of the mainstream internet and of academia? Everything through AI has been streamlined into nonsense of the average USA chud, lowest bar — not typical stiff upper lip or whatever else. 1/
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