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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

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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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  • Two business school professors gathered data on 10 million Amazon books over five years, tracking a surge in AI-assisted publishing.
  • Monthly e-book publishing tripled since ChatGPT's release, rising from around 100,000 in 2022 to more than 300,000 by the end of last year.
  • A 70-year-old retired cybersecurity consultant, Bill Johns, has 445 books on Amazon, with AI-generated portraits of himself in a dark suit as cover art.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 4 ↩ 1 · 11 from the directory shared this · 10d ago

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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View on Bluesky · ♥ 25 ↻ 5 ↩ 3 · 8 from the directory shared this · 20d ago

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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“I think actually things will move maybe even by the end of this year to where you don't even bother doing coding. The AI just creates the binary directly.” “Doing coding.” The AI just creates “the binary” directly. Ok.

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

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

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