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Me, in my fedi-hole: It seems like the tide is finally shifting and academics are rejecting GenAI.
Academics in my work email: Join the revolution! Produce more papers faster with AI! This is Science!
#genai #science #academia

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow

This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "

Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”:

The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck
AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes. The goal shouldn’t be how to remove the gate, but how to make it cheaper to operate.

Hivemind: I'm investigating a possible case of academic misconduct. Has anyone come across an instance of GenAI supplying a comment to a bibliographical reference that goes something like this: 'This is often cited as the standard publication; adjust page numbers if you use a different version'?
#GenAI #ChatGPT

To ChatGPT: By analogy to generative artificial intelligence for images (#GenAI), is there something like generative human intelligence for images (#GenHI)? https://

ChatGPT - GenHI Analogy to GenAI
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1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: #GenAI

Open Source and GenAI?

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

Oh boy, #notebooklm is unfortunately really cool to create / prepare / test podcast style explanations. I played around a bit with fediverse explations after taking a lot with my wife about it...
#ai #genai

Headline in my French journal: "Five tricks to use AI without giving up on your neurons"
Let me tell you what should be the content of that:
(1). Do not use AI
(2). Do not use AI
...

(5). Do not use AI

(And you'll help save the planet and fight big brother all at the same time!)
#GenAI

Donald Knuth is quite enthusiastic about his recent experiences with generative AI: #Knuth

Without mentioning any consideration of the damages the current #genAI tools are having on our societies and democracies? Sigh.
Also, this does not address the underlying issues of the way that the current #ResearchAssessment and funding is driven by neoliberal values. Something of which these blogposts also reek off..
3/3

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

Got the latest ollama running with image generation models now.
Used models are x/flux2-klein:latest and x/z-image-turbo
took about 1min 20s to generate these images on a M2 Max CPU with 64GB RAM
#ollama #GenAI

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #GenAI

I had this little avatar from years ago, originally borrowed from a series of Flash animations called "Ninjai - the little ninja".
It was way to small to be used for an avatar in its current size, so I asked Gemini to upscale it and give it a little more texture.
Mind blown!
#AI #GenAI

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #genAI

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/116176596337509618
Interesting thread on Image Generation.
My conclusion: it's not machines becoming more intelligent but humans being gullible.

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

#genAI

I'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.
This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.
#AI #GenAI #architecture
https://antirender.com

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

Latest junk mail: "Your research is invisible to AI"
... as if it was a problem to be fixed?! 🙌👏🥳
#genAI #noGenAI

Wow, I had been running out of patience with Yegge’s uncritical #GenAI boosterism, but this is epic: “The AI Vampire.”
As usual with Yegge, it could have been edited down to half its size, but go read it anyhow. I’m going to adopt that “AI Vampire” phrase and start using it, a lot.

The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

@… Right. Since we already had “scientists” cranking out a hundred papers per year, the uptake of #genAI was inevitable. In some respects it has just accelerated a process that had already been underway.
But it’s nevertheless shocking.

@… Right. Since we already had “scientists” cranking out a hundred papers per year, the uptake of #genAI was inevitable. In some respects it has just accelerated a process that had already been underway.
But it’s nevertheless shocking.