Misaligned citations and LLM-generated scientific fraud
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
Jill Walker Rettberg
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
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Don’t do a systematic review if you’re in the humanities
This paper is a great example of why you probably shouldn t use a systematic literature review for a theoretical and conceptual research question like How does artificial intelligence affect the perception of authenticity and aura in art? However, if you re looking for an annotated list of 48 recent articles about [ ]
Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text. Genre glitches occur when a word in the generated text is heavily associated with a genre or context that is markedly [ ]
UiB self-hosts the open source version of Canvas, so wasn’t affected by the breach
On May 1st Canvas announced a security breach, and then yesterday the system was hacked. The login page was replaced by a ransom note: if universities don t pay up by 12 May, student data will be released. Here s what the login page looked like yesterday: Way back in 2015, when [ ]
AI-generated images, fascist aesthetics: Dieselbrølet and Heimatstrom
My German is pretty dodgy, so when I first saw Heimatstrom on Bluesky, shared by Roland Meyer, a professor of visual culture at Universität Zürich s Digital Society Initiative, I misinterpreted it and thought it was a far-right campaign. But no, Heimatstrom is a group of left-wing environmentalists using fascist AI [ ]
“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references)
There s a new ad for the train between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway that uses a line from Arnulf Øverland s famous anti-fascist poem Du må ikke sove ( You must not sleep ). Du må ikke sove, you must not sleep, the ad says. And then it flips it, jovially, joda, bare [ ]
Academics in Norway: Sign this petition asking for research-based discussions of how to use AI in universities
I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen (a…
Grammarly generated fake expert reviews “by” real scholars
Grammarly is a full on AI plagiarism machine now, generating text, citations (often irrelevant), "humanizing" the text to avoid AI checkers and so on. If you're an author or scholar, they also have been impersonating and offering "feedback" in your name. Until yesterday, when they discontinued the Expert Review feature due to a class action lawsuit. Here are screenshots of how it worked.
Do LLMs normalise or idealise? Notes after discussing Ryan Heuser’s “Generative Aesthetics”
A summary of yesterday's Critical AI Theory Reading Group discussion of Ryan Heuser's article about LLM-generated poetry, with a discussion of whether LLMs normalise or idealise their training data.
Critical AI Theory Reading Group: Technofascism
The first session of the new Critical AI Theory Reading Group was great! We discussed Coeckelbergh's new paper on technofascism.