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"What do librarians look like? Stereotyping of a profession by generative Ai" #librarians

This is so deliciously meme-able that one has to be a bit skeptical. We'll see if it's an actual emerging trend.
https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Linkedin has been joking about “vibe coding cleanup specialists,” but it’s actually a growing profession.

Shaping a Profession, Building a Community: A Practitioner-Led Investigation of Public Interest Technologists in Civil Society
Mallory Knodel, Mallika Balakrishnan, Lauren M. Chambers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07230

Shaping a Profession, Building a Community: A Practitioner-Led Investigation of Public Interest Technologists in Civil Society
The label `public interest technology' (PIT) is growing in popularity among those seeking to use `tech for good' - especially among technical practitioners working in civil society and nonprofit organizations. PIT encompasses a broad range of sociotechnical work across professional domains and sectors; however, the trend remains understudied within sociotechnical research. This paper describes a mixed-methods study, designed and conducted by PIT practitioners at the Center for Democracy and Tec…

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession." (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-loathi…

Gemini users say its sharing self-loathing comments: 'I am a failure'
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: A professional thief.
VILA: More a vocation than a profession. Other people's property comes naturally to me.
JENNA: [Sits down next to Blake. To Blake.] What's the time?
https://

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
PS. Here’s where to go: @…

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

I really really really hate how much people in my field and industry have normalized generative #AI use.
I see posts / hear comments literally EVERY DAY to the tune of “can people stop complaining about AI, nobody cares. You’re not morally better” followed up by something about “you’re making work harder than it needs to be” and often “nobody values human-made work more they only care about the final output no matter how it was created”
I usually ignore these conversations but sometimes it really gets to me. It’s so hard to feel sane surrounded by that consensus every day, everywhere I go with people in my profession.
I’ve rarely felt so judged by the majority point of view on anything in my work before.

"Draw me a curator" Examining the visual stereotyping of a cultural services profession by generative AI
Dirk HR Spennemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07132 https://…

"Draw me a curator" Examining the visual stereotyping of a cultural services profession by generative AI
Based on 230 visualisations, this paper examines the depiction of museum curators by the popular generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, ChatGPT4o. While the AI-generated representations do not reiterate popular stereotypes of curators as nerdy, conservative in dress and stuck in time rummaging through collections, they contrast sharply with real-world demographics. AI-generated imagery extremely underrepresents women (3.5% vs 49% to 72% in reality) and disregards ethnic communities othe…

"The industry perpetuates this state of things, keeping itself in a state of blissful high-hormone idiocy. Software is important, so clearly those who are writing it must be hailed as the holders of some occult knowledge and the purveyors of infinite wisdom. Through bribery, hubris, or ill luck, some of those same assholes find themselves later in management positions, and continue the tradition by hiring more people like themselves, because that is what humans do."

The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/

Estrogen? Hot drinks will suffice!
"""
Naturally, cold water cooled. For that reason it was used in mania and frenzy, sicknesses of heat where the spirits were in ebullition, solids tightened and liquids were heated to the point of evaporation, leaving the brain of the patient ‘dry and brittle’, as anatomists regularly demonstrated. Reasonably enough Boissieu includes cold water among his list of refreshing cures: baths were the foremost ‘antiphlogistic’, purifying the body of any excessive igneous particles to be found there. Taken as a drink, it was a ‘dilutive procastinant’ that diminished the resistance of fluids to the action of solids, thereby indirectly lowering the general heat of the body.
But it was also said that cold water brought heat and that hot water cooled. Such at least was the thesis defended by Darut. Cold baths chased the blood from the periphery of the body and pushed it ‘with increased vigour towards the heart’. As the heart was the seat of natural heat, the blood was warmed there, all the more so as “the heart, which struggles alone against all the other parts, makes renewed efforts to expel the blood and overcome capillary resistance. What results is a greater intensity of circulation, the division of the blood, the fluidity of the humours, the destruction of congestions, an increase in the strength of the natural heat, of the appetite of the digestive forces, and the activity of the body and the mind.” A symmetrical paradox operated regarding hot baths: blood was attracted to the extremities of the body, as were the humours, sweat, and all forms of liquid, both beneficial and harmful. The vital centres were therefore deserted, the heart slowed and the organism thus began to cool down. This fact was confirmed by the ‘fainting, lipothymia… weakness, nonchalance, lassitude, and lack of vigour’ that generally accompanied excessive bathing with hot water.
But there was more. So great was the polyvalence of water, so great was its aptitude to submit itself to the qualities that it carried, that it sometimes lost its efficacy as a liquid and acted as a desiccant instead. Water could Prevent dampness. In part, this was the old principle of similia similibus, but in another sense, and by the intermediary of a visible mechanism. For some, it was cold water that brought dryness, as heat kept water humid. Heat dilated the pores of the organism, distended its membranes, and allowed humidity to impregnate them as a secondary effect. Liquids made their way through heat. For that reason, the hot drinks so widely used in the seventeenth century risked becoming a danger, and those who took too many risked relaxation, general dampness and a weakness of the whole organism. As these were traits commonly associated with the feminine body, as opposed to the dry, virile solidity of the male, the abuse of hot drinks could lead to a general feminisation of the human race: “Not without reason, the reproach is made to the majority of men that they have softened and degenerated, taking on the habits and inclinations of women – the only thing lacking is a physical resemblance. The abuse of humectants could accelerate the metamorphosis, and render the two sexes almost identical both physically and morally. Woe betide the human race if this prejudice ever spreads to the masses: there will be no more labourers, artisans or soldiers, as they will have lost the strength and vigour necessary for their profession.” [Pressavin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Four in five developers use AI tools in their workflow in 2025
—a portion that has been rapidly growing in recent years.
That said, "trust in the accuracy of AI has fallen from 40 percent in previous years to just 29 percent this year."
The disparity between those two metrics illustrates the evolving and complex impact of AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor on the profession.
There's relatively little debate among developers that the tools are or oug…

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.

Many people associate themselves with a profession or group in vague terms such as "researcher" (as I am guilty of doing). In a past life, I'd often hear criticisms of the title network engineer, but at least it was qualified.
Increasingly when I see people refer to themselves with seemingly prestigious, but vague titles, I think of a appropriate qualifier. In a world where 240 characters or less rule, nuance is hard and rare, but necessary to maintain an often needed s…

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jack Ohman says AI is making a mockery of his profession by plagiarizing the work of professional political cartoonists (Jack Ohman/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo

I recommend reading the diffs. Making git docs systematically less user-hostile is a significant service to our profession. Thanks Julia!
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115135734775061433

I'm so glad I didn't go into the legal profession and get one of these degrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Laws

BTW - The BeaverCon mentioned in that article does not refer to the traveling "convention dedicated to fostering connection, fun, and empowerment among female board gamers." I'm not making that up.
The more serious and scientific BeaverCon is a biennial meeting of wildlife and water conservation experts that hold workshops to demonstrate the power of Beavers.
https://www.beaverinstitute.org/professional-info/beavercon/

Stereotype Detection as a Catalyst for Enhanced Bias Detection: A Multi-Task Learning Approach
Aditya Tomar, Rudra Murthy, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01715

Stereotype Detection as a Catalyst for Enhanced Bias Detection: A Multi-Task Learning Approach
Bias and stereotypes in language models can cause harm, especially in sensitive areas like content moderation and decision-making. This paper addresses bias and stereotype detection by exploring how jointly learning these tasks enhances model performance. We introduce StereoBias, a unique dataset labeled for bias and stereotype detection across five categories: religion, gender, socio-economic status, race, profession, and others, enabling a deeper study of their relationship. Our experiments c…

I randomly bought this book in a quirky bookshop in Copenhagen for the sole reason that it said all the wrong things right on the cover.
(Sales: the single most important profession. NLP™: not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. Meta: the Meta Model™ and Meta Publications™.)
I just started reading it and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed. It's outrageously hilarious.
"Persuasion engineering".

Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler | Open Library
Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler, unknown edition,

As a marketer by profession I feel this very deeply and struggle to find a way to communicate to fellow people on the left that the methods and tools for communicating messages and persuading masses of people SHOULD be used, as effectively as possible, to promote facts and values we align with.
I get that power is uncomfortable when so many parties visibly abuse it for malicious purposes.
But power in and of itself is a tools that needs to be wielded, and we should be cognizant about targeting it at changes that will improve our societies and help us and the planet.
Yes, don’t use power blindly. Don’t manipulate people. But using persuasive, effective tactics for mass communication to educate people on the truth and get them aboard initiatives that will help them??? Why is that evil?
It feels like the left sees power, influence, and thus marketing / PR / propaganda as too black-and-white. We need to be comfortable in navigating the grey. https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/114913847088444610

EEA Professional Climate Survey Report
Tim Lee, Massimo Morelli, Marvin Pappalettera, Dario Sansone, Sulin Sardoschau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04302 https://

EEA Professional Climate Survey Report
In 2023, the European Economic Association (EEA) Minorities in Economics (MinE) Committee, in collaboration with the German Economic Association (VfS), conducted a professional climate survey to assess diversity, equity, and inclusion in the European economics profession.The survey gathered responses from 861 current and former EEA members, capturing demographic data and experiences across gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+ identity, disability, and socioeconomic background. Results revealed widespread …

Trying to work but being distracted by
"dumb cops getting owned by $(insert profession here)"
videos for 2 hours now...
Pls someone turn off the internet for today so I can be productive.

EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling
Yilin Jiang, Mingzi Zhang, Sheng Jin, Zengyi Yu, Xiangjie Kong, Binghao Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15250

EMNLP: Educator-role Moral and Normative Large Language Models Profiling
Simulating Professions (SP) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to emulate professional roles. However, comprehensive psychological and ethical evaluation in these contexts remains lacking. This paper introduces EMNLP, an Educator-role Moral and Normative LLMs Profiling framework for personality profiling, moral development stage measurement, and ethical risk under soft prompt injection. EMNLP extends existing scales and constructs 88 teacher-specific moral dilemmas, enabling profession-orient…