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Bonne Semaine Internationale du Libre Accès 🔓 2025 ! Le thème de cette année : "Qui contrôle nos connaissances ?"
https://www.openaccessweek.org/
Happy Open Access Week 2025 ! Year's theme : "Who Owns Our Knowledge?"

Visuel de la semaine internationale du libre accès (open access week) 2025

"The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site."

Generative AI keeps on ruining everything.

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

I think it's good to highlight non-slop, I recognise the value in artistic expression. But like... What is this stamp actually doing for readers?

> placed on books written by humans, with only limited AI use permitted for tasks such as formatting or idea generation.

Oh, they used AI but only in "limited" ways. At what point does idea generation become a problem? Is it spitballing the premise? Helping with dialogue? Is it suggesting a plausible ending when the storyline goes off the rails?

The AI could be an unwitting accomplice or a full on ghost writer. We're all going to have a line that we're uncomfortable with but this stamp is promising that we don't need to worry about that anymore, someone will be able to make that determination for us.

I kinda feel like the real value here is in charging publishers recurring fees …

An intriguing event… Brain Rot, Slop, and the of the hosted by the Research Centre for , and Creative (MACT) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge on Friday 5 December, 2025 from 10:30 to 16:15.

Features my colleague Ady Evans on ‘Doomscrolling for Hope? Digital Feelings in Permacrisis Contexts’.

‘Recently, the terms Brain Rot and have emerged as media buzzwords that telescope a range of anxieties surrounding the democratisation of tools and the tidal wave of cultural detritus and fabricated content that this has unleashed across our feeds. Gathering together speakers from Media and Cultural Studies disciplines, this symposium will critically examine these phenomena in light of the wider financial, attentional, and affective strategies of digital

You can attend in person (https://www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain-rot-ai-slop-and-the-enshittification-of-the-internet-in-person) …

Reminder: Perplexity partners with Trump's Truth Social.

Truth Social is the fascist propaganda channel of a pathetic vile narcissist. How narcissistic he is, you ask? See the linked post.

https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker/115373475152610287

By using Perplexity, you literally strengthen fascism.

By *liking* Perplexity, you demonstrate that you have absolutely no clue and/or no moral backbone.

Culpability, by Bruce Holsinger, combines science fiction, ethics, drama into a whodunit involving , .

I do find the idea of an , in today's day and age, not only being accountability but also feeling accountable in today's hype-driven era being a bit unbelievable. But hey, maybe there is hope for us after all.

I mean, I'm an engineer, and I try to do things in an ethical way that respects customers, users and employees, so it's not that crazy...

Culpability cover, by Bruce Holsinger

The companies that get wiped out by by 2030 are the ones whose owners stop thinking. They wait for someone to tell them what to do, or they rely on tools they don't understand. The ones who win are the ones who stay curious. They play with AI every day, not because they have to, but because they see what's coming and want to stay sharp.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2025/10/07/5-chatgpt-prompts-to-survive-the-2030-ai-wipeout/

Kurzgesagt has a video about AI Slop. They did their own research and man are the results just awful.

Lots of "confidently incorrect assertions" and how the ouroboros of genAI eating its own tail will hasten the demise of the Internet.

They come down firmly in the "no thanks" column.

This is a great video.

"We would rather quit than make AI Slop" followed by "please buy our merch so we can survive the AI-pocalypse"

AI Slop is Killing Our Channel

Buy their calendar: https://shop.kgs.link/12026?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=product_shelf

Outre la douleur et le dégoût bien compréhensibles exprimés ici par Zelda Williams (fille de Robin Williams), je trouve sa définition de l'IA générative particulièrement bien trouvée :

"Human Centipede of Content".

Seconde capture de la "story" Instagram de Zelda Williams, dont voici la traduction française : "Et pour l'amour de TOUT, arrêtez d'en parler comme de « l'avenir ». L'IA ne fait que recycler et régurgiter le passé pour qu'il soit consommé à nouveau. Vous ne faites que reprendre ce que vous donne ce "Human Centipede" du contenu, et vous vous trouvez au bout du bout de la chaîne, tandis que ceux qui sont au début rigolent bien, et consomment et brûlent tout."
Capture d'écran d'une "story" de Zelda Williams (fille de Robin Williams) sur Instagram, dont voici la traduction française : "S'il vous plaît, arrêtez de m'envoyer des vidéos IA de Papa. Arrêtez de croire que je veux les voir ou que je vais comprendre, ce n'est pas le cas et ça ne le sera jamais. Si vous essayez juste de me troller, j'ai vu bien pire, je vais vous bloquer et passer à autre chose. Mais s'il vous plaît, si vous avez un minimum de décence, arrêtez de lui faire ça, à lui, à moi, à tout le monde même, point final. C'est stupide, c'est une perte de temps et d'énergie, et croyez-moi, ce n'est PAS ce qu'il voudrait. Voir l'héritage de personnes réelles réduit à « ça leur ressemble vaguement, donc ça suffit », juste pour que d'autres puissent produire d'horribles vidéos TikTok en les manipulant comme des marionnettes, c'est insupportable. Vous ne faites pas de l'art, vous fabriquez des hot-dogs industriels dégoûtants à partir de la vie d'êtres humains, de l'histoire de l'art et de la musique, puis vous nous en gavez de force en espérant qu'on vous donnera un petit pouce levé et un "J'aime". Ca me dégoûte."

Robin William’s daughter Zelda:
“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed.”

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-recreations-gross-1236541633/

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, but no way:

AAAI Launches AI-Powered Peer Review Assessment System

https://aaai.org/aaai-launches-ai-powered-peer-review-assessment-system/

No.

Speaking as someone who has co-organized an AAAI symposium and among other things did a bunch of editorial work.