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Paul Chambers🚧Latest Google notice slipped this in a <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> controls email about when you use certain <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a> services... "As before, when Google uses your activity to improve its services (including training generative AI models), it gets help from human reviewers. " <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> .

Paris MarxThe Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope, and one of his first statements was on AI’s impact on workers.On <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TechWontSaveUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechWontSaveUs</a>, I spoke with Paolo Benanti to understand how Pope Leo XIV might approach AI and how to think about the ethics of technology.Listen to the full episode: <a href="https://techwontsave.us/episode/289_will_the_pope_be_an_ally_against_ai_w_paolo_benanti" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techwontsave.us/episode/289_will_the_pope_be_an_ally_against_ai_w_paolo_benanti</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/popeleo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#popeleo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/popefrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#popefrancis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/catholicchurch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#catholicchurch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#religion</a>

Tama LeaverSuzanne Srdarov and I have a new publication out in the Oxford Intersection on AI and Society: Generative Imaginaries of Australia: How Generative AI Tools Visualize Australia and Australianness <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0150" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945215.003.0150</a>It's paywalled, so we've also got a summary piece in The Conversation: ‘Australiana’ images made by AI are racist and full of tired cliches, new study shows <a href="https://theconversation.com/australiana-images-made-by-ai-are-racist-and-full-of-tired-cliches-new-study-shows-263117" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/australiana-images-made-by-ai-are-racist-and-full-of-tired-cliches-new-study-shows-263117</a>but please ping me if need a PDF of the main piece! <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#auspol</a>

IT NewsIs AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people? - In June, headlines read like science fiction: AI models "bla... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/is-ai-really-trying-to-escape-human-control-and-blackmail-people/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/is-ai-really-trying-to-escape-human-control-and-blackmail-people/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/goalmisgeneralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#goalmisgeneralization</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reinforcementlearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reinforcementlearning</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/largelanguagemodels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#largelanguagemodels</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/alignmentresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alignmentresearch</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/palisaderesearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#palisaderesearch</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aisafetytesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aisafetytesting</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#machinelearning</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jeffreyladish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jeffreyladish</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeai</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aialignment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aialignment</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aideception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aideception</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/claudeopus4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#claudeopus4</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aibehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aibehavior</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/airesearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#airesearch</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/o3model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#o3model</a>

Jon IppolitoIn science, a model reveals universal laws. In AI, a “model” just matches patterns in data. Copernicus knew the difference but transformers don't, as reflected in this Harvard/MIT study <a href="https://blog.still-water.net/ptolemaic-thinking-in-ai-age" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.still-water.net/ptolemaic-thinking-in-ai-age</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/AImodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AImodel</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Astrophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophysics</a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Physics</a>

Ω 🌍 Gus PoseyWelcome to a world where people are so afraid of thinking they use <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> to generate better prompts for their image generators.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Claude</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grok</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Midjourney</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StableDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StableDiffusion</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"My gloss is that GPT-5 had become something of an albatross around OpenAI’s neck. And this particular juncture, not long after inking big deals with Softbank et al. and riding as high on its cultural and political trajectory as it’s likely to get—and perhaps seeing declining rates of progress on model improvement in the labs—a calculated decision was made to pull the trigger on releasing the long-awaited model. People were going to be disappointed no matter what; let them be disappointed now, while the wind is still at OpenAI’s back, and it can credibly make a claim to providing hyper-advanced worker automation.I don’t think the GPT-5 flop ultimately matters all that much to most folks, and it can certainly be papered over well enough by a skilled salesman in an enterprise pitch meeting. Again, all this is clarifying: OpenAI is again centering workplace automation, while retreating from messianic AGI talk."<a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a>

readbeanicecreamWhat If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.<a href="https://archive.ph/20250812213823/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/20250812213823/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/what-if-ai-doesnt-get-much-better-than-this</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chatgpt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#genai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a>

Gödel Escher Spock🦿Profoundly disturbing image generated with Qwen-Image-Lightning from <a href="https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@simon</a> PR.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/pelicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pelicans</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/uncannyvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uncannyvalley</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"AI – the ultimate bullshit machine – can produce a better 5PE than any student can, because the point of the 5PE isn't to be intellectually curious or rigorous, it's to produce a standardized output that can be analyzed using a standardized rubric.I've been writing YA novels and doing school visits for long enough to cement my understanding that kids are actually pretty darned clever. They don't graduate from high school thinking that their mastery of the 5PE is in any way good or useful, or that they're learning about literature by making five marginal observations per page when they read a book.Given all this, why wouldn't you ask an AI to do your homework? That homework is already the revenge of Goodhart's Law, a target that has ruined its metric. Your homework performance says nothing useful about your mastery of the subject, so why not let the AI write it. Hell, if you're a smart, motivated kid, then letting the AI write your bullshit 5PEs might give you time to write something good.Teachers aren't to blame here. They have to teach to the test, or they will fail their students (literally, because they will have to assign a failing grade to them, and figuratively, because a student who gets a failing grade will face all kinds of punishments). Teachers' unions – who consistently fight against standardization and in favor of their members discretion to practice their educational skills based on kids' individual needs – are the best hope we have:"<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/#targets-r-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/#targets-r-us</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chatbots</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Grading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grading</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GoodhartsLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodhartsLaw</a>

Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶Beeteedubs, I'm doing little side-podcast as part of my research on Generative AI in Higher Education: 'Low Key Research Preview'<a href="https://soundcloud.com/lowkeyresearchpreview" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/lowkeyresearchpreview</a><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEducation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/HE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Assessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Assessment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Edutooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Edutooter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tech</a>

vic-tor-mentapropongo varios <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alttext</a> para imágenes generadas con <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/IA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IA</a> ALT: esta imagen generada con inteligencia artificial demuestra que en este perfil no nos importan las artistas ni sus derechos intelectualesALT: esta imagen generada con inteligencia artificial demuestra que en este perfil nos parece bien el derroche de agua y energía para mantener ordenadores que roban arte y escupen mediocridad<a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/IAgenerativa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IAgenerativa</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/ilustracion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ilustracion</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/inteligenciaartificial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inteligenciaartificial</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/arte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#arte</a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Carwil Bjork-JamesSimple field test of ChatGPT 5. "Produce a table of Bolivia's largest 15 cities by population in the latest census. Provide a link to the source."It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam.Or so he believed.Mr. Brooks, who had no history of mental illness, embraced this fantastical scenario during conversations with ChatGPT that spanned 300 hours over 21 days. He is one of a growing number of people who are having persuasive, delusional conversations with generative A.I. chatbots that have led to institutionalization, divorce and death.Mr. Brooks is aware of how incredible his journey sounds. He had doubts while it was happening and asked the chatbot more than 50 times for a reality check. Each time, ChatGPT reassured him that it was real. Eventually, he broke free of the delusion — but with a deep sense of betrayal, a feeling he tried to explain to the chatbot."<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Delusions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Delusions</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Hallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hallucinations</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chatbots</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"For all that, GPT-5 is not a terrible model. I played with it for about an hour, and it actually got several of my initial queries right (some initial problems with counting “r’s in blueberries had already been corrected, for example). It only fell apart altogether when I experimented with images.But the reality is that GPT-5 just not that different from anything that came before. And that’s the point. GPT-4 was widely seen as a radical advance over GPT-3; GPT-3 was widely seen as a radical advance over GPT-2. GPT-5 is barely better than last month’s flavor of the month (Grok 4); on some metrics (ARC-AGI-2) it’s actually worse.People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance. And it felt rushed at that, as one meme showed.The one prediction I got most deeply wrong was in thinking that with so much at stake OpenAI would save the name GPT-5 for something truly remarkable. I honestly didn’t think OpenAI would burn the brand name on something so mid.I was wrong."<a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a>

Will Berard 🫳🎤🫶<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay: <a href="https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ</a><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AIChatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIChatbot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AIEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIEthics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/AISafety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISafety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Anthropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anthropic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/SCOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Bijker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bijker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Constructionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Constructionism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/socialconstruct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialconstruct</a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/VideoEssay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VideoEssay</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2317720/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2317720/</a> A new gold rush? How AI is transforming San Francisco <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AICompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AICompany</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AiExhibit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AiExhibit</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/area" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#area</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/city" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#city</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ConsumerTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConsumerTechnology</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ExploratoriumMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExploratoriumMuseum</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OfficeSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OfficeSpace</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#people</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rise</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WackyWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WackyWorld</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/year" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#year</a>

Mark CarriganThe gap between student GenAI use and the support students are offeredI argued a couple of days ago that the <a href="https://markcarrigan.net/2025/08/08/are-uk-universities-ready-to-cope-with-generative-ai-in-the-25-26-academic-year/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sector is unprepared</a> for our first academic year where the use of generative AI is completely normalised amongst students. HEPI found <a href="https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/02/26/student-generative-ai-survey-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">92% of undergraduates</a> using LLMs this year, up from 66% the previous year, which matches AdvancedHE’s finding of 62% using AI in their studies “in a way that is allowed by their university” (huge caveat). This largely accords with my own experience in which it appeared that last year LLMs become mainstream amongst students and this year they it to become a near uniform phenomenon. The problem arises from the gap between near uniform use of LLMs in some way and the the lack of support being offered. Only 36% of students in the HEPI survey said they had been offered support by their university: a 56% gap. Only 26% of students say their university provides access to AI tools: a 66% gap. This is particularly problematic because we have evidence that wealthier students are tending to use LLMs more and in more analytical and reflective ways. They are more likely to use LLMs in a way that supports rather than hinders learning. How do we close that gap between student LLM use and the support students are offered? My concern is that centralised training is either going to tend towards banality or irrelevance because the objective of GenAI training for students needs to be how to learn with LLMs rather than outsource learning to them. There are general principles which can be offered here but the concrete questions which have to be answered for students are going to vary between disciplinary areas: <ul><li>What are students in our discipline using AI for, which tools, at what stages of their work?</li><li>Which foundational skills and ways of thinking in our discipline are enhanced vs threatened by AI use?</li><li>When does AI use shift from “learning with” to “outsourcing learning” in our specific field?</li><li>What forms of assessment still make sense and what new approaches do we need in an AI-saturated environment?</li><li>What discipline-specific scaffolding helps students use AI as a thinking partner rather than a thinking replacement?</li></ul>Furthermore answering these questions is a process taking place in relating to changes in the technology and the culture emerging around it. Even if those changes are now slowing down, they are certainly not stopping. We need infrastructure for continuous adaptation in a context where the sector is already in crisis for entirely unrelated reasons. Furthermore, that has to willingly enrol academics in a way consistent with their workload and outlook. My sense is we have to find ways of embedding this within existing conversations and processes. The only way to do this I think is to genuinely give academics voice within the process, finding ways to network existing interactions in order that norms and standards emerge from practice rather than the institution expecting practice adapts to another centrally imposed policy. <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/higher-education-2/" target="_blank">#higherEducation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/university/" target="_blank">#university</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/academic/" target="_blank">#academic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/students/" target="_blank">#students</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/generative-ai/" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/malpractice/" target="_blank">#malpractice</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/llms/" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://markcarrigan.net/tag/hepi/" target="_blank">#HEPI</a>

BornachYannick Kilcher on why <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ChatGPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT5</a> and the plateauing in the performance of OpenAI's foundation models means that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> is not coming <a href="https://youtu.be/hkAH7-u7t5k" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/hkAH7-u7t5k</a> Are we entering the "Samsung Galaxy" stage of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a>?

Miguel Afonso Caetano"I believe GPT-5 is part of a larger process happening in generative AI — enshittification, Cory Doctorow’s term for when platforms start out burning money offering an unlimited, unguarded experience to attract their users, then degrade and move features to higher tiers as a means of draining the blood from users. With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has fully committed to enshittifying its consumer and business subscription products, arbitrarily moving free users to a cheaper model and limiting their ability to generate images, and removing the ability to choose which model you use in its $20, $35 and “enterprise” subscriptions, moving any and all choice to its “team” and $200-a-month “pro” subscriptions. OpenAI’s justification is an exercise in faux-altruism, framing “taking away all choice” as a “real-time router that quickly decides which [model] to use.” ChatGPT Plus and Team members now mostly have access to two models — GPT-5 and GPT-5-Thinking — down from the six they had before. This distinction is quite significant. Where users once could get hundreds of messages a day on OpenAI’s o4-mini-high and o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-5 for ChatGPT Plus subscribers offers 200 reasoning (GPT-5-thinking) messages a week, with 80 GPT-5 messages every 3 hours which allow you to ask it to “think” about its answer, shoving you over to an undisclosed reasoning model. This may seem like a good deal, OpenAI is likely putting you on the cheapest model whenever it can in the name of “the best choice.”"<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Enshittification</a>

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