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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social

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Feel like I should give new followers the heads up that I repost a lot of anti-AI (mostly specifically LLM) stuff so none taken if you quickly unfollow, but if you stick around there's wholesome rural crafty life stuff and occasional HE chat too.

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social

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Farmed*

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Here's a load more but these ones are framed I think

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A whole herd of 'em! (Deer not eagles)

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Dr Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social

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Travelling back from a weekend in Aviemore, just seen a red deer and a golden eagle

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social

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Mixing a technology that has driven people to psychosis and even suicide, with a business that sells people what appears to be direct access to the divine…what could go wrong?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social

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GenAI dipshits are still at that stage of the scam where they keep insisting how useful it is as an accessibility aid (the next stage is insisting it helps the global south), and no it fucking isn't.

GenAI actively *destroys* accessibility tools like captions and alt text.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com

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I keep encountering, online and off, people who believe if an unethical tech becomes functional enough, that will make all the naysayers abandon their concerns and start using

That is, if LLMs become good enough then surely we will look past the deception, violations, abuse, and extremist politics?

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social

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This week saw the first ever US journalists' strike against the use of AI in newsrooms, with 150 ProPublica journalists conducting a 24 hour strike to put pressure on bosses during collective bargaining between the journalists guild and their employers. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/propublica-journalists-walk-off-the-job-in-first-u-s-newsroom-strike-over-ai/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science

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Much like we don't dump food uneaten directly into the toilet, a lot of other human activities relating to thinking, new skills, need to pass through your system (you need to deeply engage with situations and materials) too sans AI. You can't outsource parts of something and still consider it done.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com

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I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

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This is not a story about Gen Z refusal; this is a story about how middle managers and executives have been so pilled by an industry that they are willing to fire workers who refuse to use its products.

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Simon @simonxix.com

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"contributing to" is key. Do organisations want to spend resources on making corporate software work properly or spend resources on making software improvements that can be used by every other user of that software?

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social

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The point of being an academic is not being “pragmatic” but to try to give as truthful and complete and messy picture as possible. If an academic is in the business of pragmatism, they should switch to policy.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io

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I'm reviewing a systematic mapping. Of the first 6 referenced papers, 2 seem to have been invented by an LLM. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social is right. If the authors state that they used an LLM for any purpose, then it's not worth reviewing.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social

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I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social

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And genAI has made my job demonstrativly harder in terms of student questions. When a student asks me for a resource I can immediately tell if they used an LLM for "research" because chances are good either the resource doesn't exist or it does but it's not the right resource for their question.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social

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Literally 75% of my job right now is tricking students into NOT asking AI anything and thinking through things themselves before they’ve realized what they’ve done

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Jim Caris @jimcaris.eurosky.social

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Article is paywalled and I can't be arsed to jump it, but from the headline I'm guessing that employers have chosen their scapegoat to blame for the fact this tech isn't delivering and can't deliver

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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social

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Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

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I believe the frame that minoritized scholars are helped by unethical tech is a trap to avoid. We better fight the system of inequities ourselves & not buy into industry frames trying to sell their discriminatory, polluting, and exploitative tech as "inclusion".

bsky.app/profile/irisvanrooij.bsky.social/post/3lz7yw3m25s2m

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com

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being right about bad things is deeply unsatisfying

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Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social

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MY BODY: hey do you wanna know the score

ME: no I’m busy

MY BODY: ok sorry

ME:

MY BODY: we’re losing btw

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the mangosphere @mangmangmang.bsky.social

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shitty that all the Kenyan graduates who used to write for essay mills have probably all had to move into AI content moderation now

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social

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AI is undermining the mechanisms by which we scale up trust to the level of society

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social

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Yeah I simply don't agree that taking a principled stance on an ethical issue makes a person responsible for others acting unethically because they're defensive about that

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Matthew Noe @ CAMP @noethematt.bsky.social

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I'm still struck by how much the "consider the ethical impacts of AI" conversation in libraries feels similar to many of the conversations around diversity in the profession.

We're focused on raising awareness, "using mindfully," but any suggestion of larger action gets you funny looks.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social

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Gen ai in education feels very much like the scam of “cybersecurity awareness”
Everyone got told they had to have it, but it is actually a huge scam by vendors who sell magic beans to people who don’t want to admit they can’t do their job/made mistakes/ don’t want to think or do any hard work

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social

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As the father of a middle schooler I have seen the rebellion against AI forming there — even using “that’s AI, bro,” not indicating something is literally AI, but that something is metaphorically so — it’s sus, it’s bullshit, it’s bad weird

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Hel Eline @heleline.bsky.social

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if someone who makes a living selling snake oil tells you they are a snake oil expert and that snake oil is good for you actually, then you do not buy the snake oil. You ask what people who study snake oil but do not sell snake oil think about snake oil before you even think about buying snake oil.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science

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😭 thank you

> Using AI to automate, control and deskill academic teaching labour often requires an immense number of globally dispersed workers – many of them in the Global South – to assemble and annotate the data required to train and correct the GenAI models being pushed on academic workers.

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