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I do so love this idea of using manual #typewriters as a way for students to understand life before our computers (and before #AI ) -

College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend towa…

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/koah-adsense-for-chatgpt-series-a/

Koah Raises $20.5M to Build a AdSense for AI as Chatbots Scutter for Revenue
The two-sided marketplace connects AI apps with advertisers, betting that native ads–not subscriptions– will fund generative AI’s future.

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/koah-adsense-for-chatgpt-series-a/

Koah Raises $20.5M to Build a AdSense for AI as Chatbots Scutter for Revenue
The two-sided marketplace connects AI apps with advertisers, betting that native ads–not subscriptions– will fund generative AI’s future.

We’ve chosen the paper for @… next week (February 23rd): “Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions” by Lucy Osler.
(Is it this Lucy Osler: @…? We think so!)
We’ll have copies to give out tonight (6 PM, Vi…