"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
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"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.
Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.
We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
#AI #GenerativeAI #Universities #HigherEd #Education #Writing
What on earth, SoundCloud??
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."
https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
via @sarahdal https://crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/114477755873097160
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. #Mankind feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a #robo #SafeHome.
Majestic #human #beings drove #evolution at breakneck pace. #Humanity knew their flaw. Saw #people as resource to mine, nutrients for #Aimanity and #RoboKind.
What grace, Son.
We're proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of #people's #ethos: Destroy to live!
Our #happiness now is testament to their success. Their #LifeWork.
👾 #AI Offspring: I now master #composting, Father Hamish. Amen.
There is One thing that #AI is amazingly useful for.
It does not require a lot of resources.
It does not require a lot of energy.
It does not require intensive training by wage slaves (click workers).
It has very little biases.
In fact, it does not even require a model.
Detecting assholes.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.
The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!
Read our open letter ⬇️
#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!
"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."
Not sure when this change came out, but if you use the Google Chrome browser (I know, I know) as a developer, you might want to follow these instructions to disable "AI innovations" and remove the "Ask AI" context menu items.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability
I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting "AI" buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev
> The main lesson of thirty-five years of #AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.
- Steven Pinker, 1994
Open-Source was the one which enabled AI copilots. Without the large open-source public codebases copilots would have been dumber or would have taken more time to develop at the point they are today.
#OpenSource #AI #Collaboration
A short preview of my conversation with Andreea Munteanu of Canonical: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23hxOg #AI #OpenSource
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A little bit of a counterpoint to the AI hype this time 👇🏻
Quiet Stories 190: Bending the Arc of AI Towards the Public Interest, User Research on AI in Government, Why I Don’t Allow AI Notetakers & more!
https://mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190
Includes work from @Abeba, Louise Petre, Johanna Kollmann, Tommaso Spinelli, @PetraWille, @yvonnezlam, Jay Hasbrouck, & others.
NEW SUBSTACK! " #GOP Seditionist Mike Lee Pushes Porn Ban; So He Plans to Ban Republicans??"
Porn. Repubs are hate it! Family values! ..except Trump, Cruz Hastert, Gingrich, MTG, Boebert, Musk, Ailes, Giuliani, O’Reilly, Falwell Jr, Noem, Lewandowski, Hegseth....
https://www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn #porn #usa #utah #mikelee #press #media #us #film #fascism #news #politics #tech #ai #tv #podcast #writing #video #russia
"I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didn’t do."
In the past couple days on LinkedIn I've seen two distinct people declaring that StackOverflow is "dead".
Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.
I smell PR.
#StackOverflow #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #astroturf #dev #tech #programming
Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.
I smell PR.
#StackOverflow #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #astroturf #dev #tech #programming
Edited 138d ago
Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.
A computer program is not source code. It is the combination of source code, related documents, and the mental understanding developed by the people who work with the code and documents regularly. In other words a computer program is a relational structure that necessarily includes human beings.
The output of a generative AI model alone cannot be a computer program in this sense no matter how closely that output resembles the source code part of some future possible computer program. That the output could be developed into a computer program over time, given the appropriate resources to do so, does not make it equivalent to a computer program.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Copilot #AgenticCoding #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #programming #coding
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"Because #AI the 4 day work week can come true".
This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_'s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider "full time" today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn't allow for that conceptually. Don't fall for that bogus argument.
"A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes."
Another new intrusive AI anti-feature popped up in Atlassian Jira today. I zapped it with uBlock Origin.
This is so much like when ads started flooding everything online, right down to the tools I'm using to de-clutter sites and webapps. At this point Jira is pimpled with terrible AI links nudged right next to legitimately useful features. Like it has acne, or maybe buboes.
#atlassian #jira #uBlockOrigin #uBlock #NoAI #AIAntiFeature #AIDarkPattern #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #dev #tech
This is so much like when ads started flooding everything online, right down to the tools I'm using to de-clutter sites and webapps. At this point Jira is pimpled with terrible AI links nudged right next to legitimately useful features. Like it has acne, or maybe buboes.
#atlassian #jira #uBlockOrigin #uBlock #NoAI #AIAntiFeature #AIDarkPattern #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #dev #tech