Tootfinder

There's no putting the genie back in the bottle, but education is [yet another part of our society that is] completely unprepared to deal with generative AI.
Teachers Are Not OK
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

'...a student might hear "don't use generative AI" from a prof but then log on to the university's Microsoft suite, which then suggests using Copilot to sum up readings or help draft writing'
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/…

Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

Students, THIS is how generative AI (ChatGPT et alia) "reads" papers and "understands" content. It's a bullshit machine, a gaslighting machine. It shows the linguistic behavior of a psychopath (is this what us humans average to, if one trains on all our "content" and online behavior?). Yikes.
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina

Where's the Line? A Classroom Activity on Ethical and Constructive Use of Generative AI in Physics
Zosia Krusberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00229 http…

Where's the Line? A Classroom Activity on Ethical and Constructive Use of Generative AI in Physics
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly reshaping how students and instructors engage with course material-and how they think about academic integrity. This paper presents a classroom activity designed to help physics students critically examine the ethical and educational implications of using AI in coursework. Through a structured sequence of case analysis, discussion, and optional policy drafting, students develop the metacognitive, ethical, and collaborative skills needed to navigate e…

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Vahid Garousi, Zafar Jafarov, Aytan Movsumova, Atif Namazov, Huseyn Mirzayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00682

Encouraging Students' Responsible Use of GenAI in Software Engineering Education: A Causal Model and Two Institutional Applications
Context: As generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot become pervasive in education, concerns are rising about students using them to complete rather than learn from coursework-risking overreliance, reduced critical thinking, and long-term skill deficits. Objective: This paper proposes and empirically applies a causal model to help educators scaffold responsible GenAI use in Software Engineering (SE) education. The model identifies how professor actions, student factors, …

I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.
#ChatGPT informs me that fir-wood is fast burning and was often used in #Scotland to get a fire started while peat was long-burning and thus would be added to the fire thereafter.
It seems logical, but ChatGPT has also struggled to provide me with clear references to this information.
Curious if anyone is familiar with whether this was/is so? I'd like something to depend upon beyond the words of generative AI. 😂
#question

We sounded the alarms about this when #DALLE and #ChatGPT were first unleashed, but not enough people cared. They just saw the shiny.
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The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT

I'm pretty floored by journalists on NYT Hard Fork asking @… how she could research a book without ChatGPT or generative AI.
The evidence is quite clear that these tools add plausible-sounding falsehoods to text and journalists have a special responsibility to not contaminate the stream of verified facts.