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You don’t hate AI; You hate… : a collection

§1 Management Consulting Firms §2 The Apparatus §3 Automation §4 Surveillance Capitalism §5 Thatcherism §6 Technofeudalism §7 Exploiting Labour §8 Tech Bubbles §9 Corporations

Set seed or reproducibility: a collection

Can LLMs that are designed to generate novelty also produce reproducible results? I don't answer that question.

I will dropkick you if you refer to an LLM as a Librarian

I am on Team LLMs are Cultural Artifacts. I am not on Team "AI Rights".

The flood of machine-generated news and misinformation demands witness

How can we fact-check potentially machine-generated misinformation when our investment in journalism is being decimated?

When the zone is being flooded, libraries need to make the high ground

Libraries can and should lend our authority to help others establish claims based on credible sources of information on the internet.

Words of 2023

Inspired by Matt Webb, I have been collecting words and phrases that are interesting to me since March of 2021.

Shall We Play A Game? How games can help us think about machine learning

What are generative AI LLM gpt-chat-bot machine learning systems... for? And how can game theory help us answer that question?

Plagiarism and Us

I think you should watch Harris Brewis' video essay, Plagiarism and You(Tube).

I am fed up with hiding myself — an actual human being — behind the conventional anonymity of a large language model

I think you should read the transcript of Barbara Fister's talk, "information literacy, writing instruction, and the problem of stochastic parrots". And then I want to you to come out of hiding.

Citations Needed – Chatting about Chat-GPT

Yesterday I spoke on a panel which was one part of a series of Windsor Law LTEC Lab forum discussions about Chat-GPT Generative AI. This post is a means to share my cited works to prove that I didn't make it all up (like Australia) like an army of drunk interns named Steve would.