#genai

Why is it that every time I bring up a thing gen AI does poorly, someone will point out that humans also do this thing poorly. Yes, I also can't draw hands well (unlike trained artists btw) but where are my gazillion dollars?
How does random humans being bad at summarising texts negate that AI summaries suck?

#AI #LLM #genAI #AIslop #NoAI

A must-listen to episode of the @grammargirl AI Sidequest podcast. Mignon chats with Josh Bernoff about a survey he and collaborators conducted via responses from almost 1,500 writers and editors about their views on AI and what they're actually using it for.

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ai-sidequest/id1845467971?i=1000735383514

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pWTzXhrspHg

#Podcast #AI #GenAI

This is a long time coming. I've been posting about the decline of arXiv's CS category for a long time now, and even had a few conversations with someone I know who works there about it. Personally, I think the slop started in 2018--prior to generative AI slop--when the CS category at arXiv began the unsustainable exponential growth in submissions that has continued till today. An increasing number of what amounted to corporate whitepapers and other marketing materials were being posted on arXiv to give them the appearance of scientific credibility. There was a fairly clear arXiv-to-Nature pipeline. Citation counts were pumped as some of the scientometric services count arXiv "articles" as citations, and some researchers adopted the bad scholarly habit of citing arXiv preprints instead of the final publication. It was and still is a mess. My understanding is that arXiv was meant as a place for people to put high-quality but pre-publication articles, but at least in the CS category it's drifted quite far from that.

I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.

"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154

#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

Mastodon, I need help.

I teach English as a foreign language at the Access to University level in a Spanish high school.That's kind of B1. The exam has changed recently and the reading texts are much longer. My "archive" of old exams is now not as useful.

I have two colleagues who want to work longer texts on TRENDY topics. Of course, they want texts about #GenAI. They like it. I don't.

Please, can you recommend me texts that are:
* From legitimate sources (the press; stuff like The Guardian or USA equivalent is good)
* Easy to read or easy to adapt. We're talking 17 year olds and my summaries will be 350-500 words long. Nothing too technical.
* About data centers and environmental impact; LLM use and cognitive decline; privacy breaches; anything else that is negative.
* Texts about banned books, cancel culture, negative impact of excessive discipline in the classroom, racism, are also welcome. But I really want to have good texts on AI before my colleagues find the praises of some billionaire.

Thank you so much
cc @tunubesecamirio
#getfedihelp

I don't have anything special to say about this other than compare and contrast:

- AI psychosis: "Journalistic accounts describe individuals who have developed strong beliefs that chatbots are sentient, are channeling spirits, or are revealing conspiracies, sometimes leading to personal crises or criminal acts."
- Can AI chatbots trigger psychosis? What the science says: "Chatbots can reinforce delusional beliefs, and, in rare cases, users have experienced psychotic episodes."

with

- New-Onset Hyperreligiosity, Demonic Hallucinations, and Apocalyptic Delusions following COVID-19 Infection: "There has been an increasing body of literature suggesting a correlation between COVID-19 infection and psychosis."

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AIPsychosis #ChatbotPsychosis #MentalHealth #COVID #COVID19 #COVIDIsNotOver

Good morning from Elsevier. When I open my inbox to be greeted by this, I know the time has come to leave academia. It is rotten to the core, and totally lost sight of its *telos*. Read the article if you like. It is a lost delusion. States "AI is a tool" multiple times. It's not. Its a pattern matching text generator. (Jon Dron wrote a great piece on this recently.)

#academia #academicchatter #ai #genai
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/rethinking-peer-review-in-the-ai-era-with-responsibility-and-transparency

Regarding the last boost: Google has been found to be an illegal monopoly multiple times, and so far no judge has had the courage to impose a significant enough penalty that Google actually changes its ways. Its monopoly behavior is frequent, obvious, and damaging.

Anyway, check your Google Drive, if you use that: go to drive, then click the gear. Choose Settings -> Manage Apps, and make sure "Use by default" is checked OFF for everything you don't like, especially Gemini (Google's AI that they're pushing on everyone). This was added and turned on by default for most people, it seems. It also looks like Google is training their AI on every document you open; people report very slow load times when this setting is on, remedied by turning it off.

#Google #Gemini #DarkPattern #monopoly #AI #GenAI #tying #antitrust #DefaultToOptOut