@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeInteresting article on how #GenAI can be used effectively in a classroom setting, what methods the instructor uses to make sure students learn how and when (not) to use it, and how they ensure the students still learn what they need to learn.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialEvery tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.
@geant@mstdn.socialMay 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialIt bothers me that so many LLM/genAI applications seem to be all about "now that we have new tool X, what can we do with it" while completely ignoring the question "for problem Y, what is the best tool for the job?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly for developers where we have strong evidence of poor ethics (e.g., uncritically using big-brand LLMs), I suspect that many of the people behind these systems care more about the exhiliration of using new tech and the prestige it might bring them than any of the problems they might claim to solve (if they even bother to identify such things at all). Turns out that's a great way to cause a lot of harm in the world, since you likely won't do a good job of measuring outcomes (if you even bother to do so) and you especially won't carefully look for systemic biases or ways your system might unintentionally hurt/exclude people. You also won't be concerned about whether your system ends up displacing efforts that would have led to better solutions.
#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM
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@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialIt used to be that the use of #genAI for #PeerReview was forbidden (at least for anything else other than helping with the language).
I've just checked the policy on this from #Nature and it's…
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@felwert@fedihum.orgI can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #GenAI debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get a realistic impression of the capabilities, and be able to discuss these with my students.
Then fancy…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialWith the whole moving, we've been looking for dining table sets online. While scrolling we noticed that something was off with some of the listings, behold "AI"-generated product image #3:
Is the table gigantic? Or are the chairs tiny? Do they worship the table in some strange cult? Why is the table floating mid-air with 2 let's resting weirdly on some box on the wall and one leg being much longer?
Because it's mindless slop, that's why.
#ai #genai
@hw@fediscience.orgThis video features a #GenAI avatar of a murder victim delivering their own impact statement in the murder trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs-_8etNts.
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @…: https://www.404media.co/r/8a3ee799
@timbray@cosocial.caIn which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
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@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialHere is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :
@awinkler@openbiblio.social @pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social @timbray@cosocial.ca @pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialManagers were starting to understand that velocity on its own has no value. But then along came #AI and said "but what if we made that velocity 10x?" and they fell for it all over again - because they only have a surface level understanding of the work.
The logic of the feature factory has permitted #genAI
@crell@phpc.socialPriorities...
#GenAI #LLM #AI #ClimateChange
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioUpdate on my stance here: I’ve changed my mind after reading way more about #AI. Stopped using #LLM products, cancelled paid subscription to #ChatGPT and am currently exploring smaller, specialized, and open-source alternative language model solutions to keep business functioning where needed (tldr because of client requests for certain types of automation I can’t say goodbye to LMs completely).
Planning to write up how my thinking developed soon.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI
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