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Dieses Phänomen war so effektiv, dass es 2021 einen Namen bekam und als "The Alt-Right Pipeline" bekannt wurde. Ein digitaler Trichter, der junge Zuschauer von harmlosem Content in den rechten Irrsinn treibt. 97/X
harvardpolitics.com/alt-right-pi...
TOMORROW Linguistics Careercast: AI Con
August 16 | 10a–12:30p PT
Join host Laurel Sutton with guests for a deep dive into The AI Con by Emily Bender & Alex Hanna. We’ll cut through Big Tech’s GenAI hype & unpack what linguists really need to know. thecon.ai
Register: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
15.08.2025 04:44 — 👍 1695 🔁 668 💬 24 📌 52
Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).
Krass: Wenn Google eine KI-Übersicht zur Suchanfrage einblendet, fällt die Anzahl der Klicks fast um die Hälfte
Aus einer neuen Untersuchung von @pewresearch.org
What will your impact be? There is the one thing, above all else, that young (and older) people can do today to make an immediate and lasting impact on the world:
Choose to commit your life’s work on the big challenges - like climate action, biodiversity or long COVID.
Fascinating chart from @rutgerbregman.com‘s new book about moral ambition. It seems many of the rich have an inkling that they make money doing things that provide no benefit to society.
Also, in this media era that’s immersing society in bullshit news, the journalism number is notable.
Considerations during the panel on opportunities and challenges of so-called AI:
AI is often compared to a calculator or a sophisticated helper tool for boring or exhausting tasks, but it also takes away a lot of nice creative work (text writing). 2/2
#SciSoc2025 #EMBL #InScienceWeTrust
Lucio Corsi engages with fans below in the pit
Lucio Corsi plays piano (and guitar and harmonica)
#LucioCorsi is an Italian🇮🇪 rock star who performed with an expanded band on 6/21 in Rome - for over two hours he commanded the enormous stage and crowd with the purity of his unique artistry and rapport with his band. ❤️🎼🎸🎹⭐️A poetic review from Giovanni Di Stefano: www.rollingstone.it/musica/live/...
23.06.2025 07:07 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Hours after Putin spoke to Trump
And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense
I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
A life-changing experience: 18 months of LongCOVID with no cure in sight. I have never fully recovered after my first COVID infection on Dec 10th, 2023 and would describe my daily power levels at 30-40% of my earlier "me" - on good days.
10.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 79 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 2
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by many purveyors and boosters.) Even those who envision benefits to schools of this fast-evolving category of tech should approach the well-funded AI-in-education campaign with skepticism and caution. Some of the primary arguments for teachers actively using AI tools and introducing students to AI as early as kindergarten, however, are questionable or fallacious. What follows are four of the most common arguments and rebuttals with links to sources. I have not attempted balance, in part because so much pro-AI messaging is out there and discussion of risks and costs is often minimized in favor of hope or resignation. -ALF Argument: “Schools need to prepare students for the jobs of the future.” The skills employers seek haven’t changed much over the decades—and include a lot of “soft skills” like initiative, problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking. Early research is showing that using generative AI can degrade these key skills: An MIT study showed adults using chatGPT to help write an essay “had the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.’” Critically, “ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.” A business school found those who used AI tools often had worse critical thinking skills “mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores.” Another study revealed those using “ChatGPT engaged less in metacognitive activities…For instance, learners in the AI group frequently looped back to ChatGPT for feedback rather than reflecting independently. This dependency not only undermines critical thinking but also risks long-term skill stagnation.” …
Argument: “AI is a tool, just like a calculator.” Calculators don’t provide factually wrong answers, but AI tools have. Last year, Google’s AI search returned, among other falsehoods, that cats have gone to the moon, that Barack Obama is Muslim, and that glue goes on pizza. Even though AI tools have and are expected to improve, children in schools shouldn’t be used as tech firms’ guinea pigs for undertested, unregulated products while AI firms engage elected officials in actively resisting regulation. Calculators don’t provide dangerous, even deadly feedback. In one study, a ”chatbot recommended that a user, who said they were recovering from addiction, take a ‘small hit’ of methamphetamine” because, it said, it’s “‘what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability.’" Users have received threatening messages from chatbots. Calculators don’t pose mental health risks because they aren’t potentially addictive or designed to encourage repeated use. They don’t flatter, direct, or manipulate. Chatbots have been designed this way—and this has led to dreadful mental health outcomes for some, including users in a New York Times report. Alleging a chatbot encouraged their teen to die by suicide, parents in Florida filed a lawsuit against its maker. Calculators don’t lie. Chatbots, however, have misled users. Writer Amanda Guinzberg shared screenshots of interactions with one that she asked to describe several of her essays. It spewed out invented material, showing the chatbot hadn’t actually accessed and processed the essays. After much prodding, it “admitted” it had only acted as though it had done that requested work, spit out mea culpas—and went on to invent or “lie” again. Calculators can’t be used to spread propaganda. AI tools, though, including those meant for schools, should worry us. Law professor Eric Muller’s back-and-forth with SchoolAI’s “Anne Frank” character showed his “helluva time trying to get her to say a bad word about Nazis.” In this er…
![Argument: “AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and improve their effectiveness.”
Adding edtech does not necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that learning management systems sold to schools over the past decade-plus as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier. Instead, they found this tech (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) is often burdensome and contributes to burnout. As one teacher put it, it “just adds layers to tasks.”
“Extra time” is rarely returned to teachers. AI proponents argue that if teachers use AI tools to grade, prepare lessons, or differentiate materials, they’ll have more time to work with students. But there are always new initiatives, duties, or committee assignments—the unpaid work districts rely on—to suck up that time. In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut.
AI can’t replace what teachers do, but that doesn’t mean teachers won’t be replaced. Schools are already doing it: Arizona approved a charter school in which students spend mornings working with AI and the role of teacher is reduced to “guide.” Ed tech expert Neil Selwyn argues those in “industry and policy circles…hostile to the idea of expensively trained expert professional educators who have [tenure], pension rights and union protection… [welcome] AI replacement as a way of undermining the status of the professional teacher.”
Tech firms have been selling schools on untested products for years. Technophilia has led to students being on screens for hours in school each week even when their phones are banned. Writer Jess Grose explains, “Companies never had to prove that devices or software, broadly speaking, helped students learn before those devices had wormed their way into America’s public schools.” AI products appear to be no different.
Efficiency is not effectiveness. “Speed a…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jpjyorpadryoa6vnwwsnnyq5/bafkreigrcdai56b6rnuqchhubqnmxpd4bj5j2dxecaejnr3l4pxwbcej2i@jpeg)
Argument: “AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and improve their effectiveness.” Adding edtech does not necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that learning management systems sold to schools over the past decade-plus as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier. Instead, they found this tech (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) is often burdensome and contributes to burnout. As one teacher put it, it “just adds layers to tasks.” “Extra time” is rarely returned to teachers. AI proponents argue that if teachers use AI tools to grade, prepare lessons, or differentiate materials, they’ll have more time to work with students. But there are always new initiatives, duties, or committee assignments—the unpaid work districts rely on—to suck up that time. In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut. AI can’t replace what teachers do, but that doesn’t mean teachers won’t be replaced. Schools are already doing it: Arizona approved a charter school in which students spend mornings working with AI and the role of teacher is reduced to “guide.” Ed tech expert Neil Selwyn argues those in “industry and policy circles…hostile to the idea of expensively trained expert professional educators who have [tenure], pension rights and union protection… [welcome] AI replacement as a way of undermining the status of the professional teacher.” Tech firms have been selling schools on untested products for years. Technophilia has led to students being on screens for hours in school each week even when their phones are banned. Writer Jess Grose explains, “Companies never had to prove that devices or software, broadly speaking, helped students learn before those devices had wormed their way into America’s public schools.” AI products appear to be no different. Efficiency is not effectiveness. “Speed a…
Argument: “Students are already using AI, so we have to teach them ethical use. If schools want ethical students, teach ethics. More students are using AI tools to cheat, an age-old problem they make much easier. This won’t be addressed by showing students how to use this minute’s AI, an argument implying students don’t know what plagiarism is (solved by teaching about plagiarism) or understand academic integrity (solved by teaching and enforcing its bounds)—or that teachers create weak assignments or don’t convey purpose. The latter aren’t solved by attempting to redirect students motivated and able to cheat. Students can be educated on the ethics of AI without encouraging use of AI tools. They can be taught, as part of media literacy and social media safety programs, about AI’s potential and applications as well as how it can enable predation, perpetuate bias, and spread disinformation. They should be taught about the risks of AI and its various social, economic, and environmental costs. Giving a nod to these issues while integrating AI throughout schools sends a strong message: the schools don’t really care and neither should students. Children can’t be expected to use AI responsibly when adults aren’t. Many pushing schools to embrace AI don’t know much about it. One example: Education Secretary Linda McMahon, who said kindergartners should be taught A1 (a steak sauce). The LA Times introduced a biased and likely politically-motivated AI feature. The Chicago Sun-Times published a summer reading list including nonexistent books—yet teachers are told to use the same tools to do similar work. Educators using AI to cut corners can strike students as hypocritical. The many costs of AI call into question the possibility of ethical AI use. These include: Energy - AI data centers need huge amounts of water as coolant as well as electricity, pulling these resources from their communities—which tend to be lower-income—straining the grid, and raising household costs. Thi…
I put together a short document for those wary of the AI mania in schools. Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools and introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed--with thoughts and rebuttals and links to sources. Hope it's helpful.
drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
Currently reading Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy: The Crisis of Information by @juttahaider.bsky.social & @olofsundin.bsky.social
30.06.2025 15:25 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Zur Bewältigung illegitimer ausländ. Einflussversuche braucht es eine Gesamtstrategie, die vom präventiven Schutz gesellschaftl. Werte bis zur flinken Reaktion auf Vorfälle alle Tools & Akteur:innen integriert, die uns schützen können. Im neuen @cemas.io Paper untersuche ich, wie das aussehen kann:
25.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 56 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 0
Neues Research Paper: CeMAS-Senior Researcherin @leafruehwirth.bsky.social entwickelt ein integriertes Modell zum Schutz demokratischer Gesellschaften vor ausländischen Einflussversuchen, sogenannte „Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference“ (FIMI):
25.06.2025 07:58 — 👍 60 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 2The Republican party seeks only power, personal wealth, oppression, cruelty – and to continue inflicting pain, suffering, and death.
I no longer recognize my country nor nearly half of my own species.
Jacob Svaneeng präsentiert (links Bildschirm)
re:publika25 26. MAI 2025 VOBB DIE ZIELGRUPPEN IN BERLIN • Funktionale Analphabeten 340.000 deutschsprachige Personen (mindestens) • Migrant*innen und Geflüchtete 900.000 Personen (funktionaler Analphabetismus in dieser Gruppe ist kaum erforscht) • Schwerbehinderte Menschen 410.000 Personen • Senior*innen 711.000 Personen (65+) • Arme Menschen ohne Internetanschluss 120.000 Personen
Die öffentlichen Bibliotheken Berlins bauen einen nicht-kommerziellen "IT-Support" für alle Stadtbewohner*innen. - Ein tolles Beispiel für „digitale Chancengleichheit“ und Wirksamkeit von #Bibliotheken. - Applaus 👏 für den Berliner Kollegen Jacob Svaneeng. #rp25
26.05.2025 17:02 — 👍 70 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 1
"Unsere Sicherheit liegt in der Offenheit"
Wie Kürzungen in USA eine zentrale medizinische Datenbank bedrohen: Die Bibliothekswissenschaftlerin Miriam Albers über die Bequemlichkeit Europas und die Initiative, jetzt ein europäisches PubMed aufzubauen. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/05/26/u...
Zweiteilig gestaltete Mimikama-Grafik. Links ein blau eingefärbtes Porträt von Andre Wolf im schwarzen Mimikama-T-Shirt mit verschränkten Händen. Rechts auf rotem Hintergrund steht oben in weißer Schrift: „ChatGPT ist keine AGI“. Darunter eine große, fettgedruckte Hauptaussage: „ChatGPT ist Meister der Imitation, aber nicht der Intelligenz.“ Es folgt ein erklärender Text in kleiner weißer Schrift: „Und genau deshalb brauchen wir eben jenes ruhige, abholende Erklären von den verschiedenen Facetten im Bereich der künstlichen ‚Intelligenz‘. Denn viele Menschen haben Angst bei diesem Thema. Sogar Ängste. Angst vor Kontrollverlust und Intransparenz. Angst vor Entmündigung oder dem Arbeitsplatzverlust. Entfremdung, Überwachung, Datenmissbrauch und der eigenen Entmenschlichung gegenüber der KI. Und nicht zuletzt Dystopie.“ Unten links: „Bild: Nadja Buechler“.
Warum ChatGPT keine echte Künstliche Intelligenz ist, aber oft so wirkt und von sehr vielen Menschen falsch eingeschätzt wird.
Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT werden maßlos überschätzt.
Dazu die Erklärung zum Unterschied zwischen LLM und AGI.
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HAPPENING NOW: A federal judge is set to hold a hearing on Governor Gavin Newsom’s request for a temporary restraining order that would bar the Trump administration’s use of the state national guard amid protests against immigration raids in LA.
Hearing starting now before Judge Breyer
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Let’s start with digital feudalism. In medieval feudalism, peasants worked land they didn’t own, under rules they didn’t choose, for lords who profited from their labour.
Today, we work for attention, on platforms we don’t own, governed by algorithms we don’t control.
🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?
16.05.2025 09:01 — 👍 665 🔁 247 💬 37 📌 33
I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...
Musk and Zuckerberg‘s notion of „freedom of speech“ infringes our rights to freedom of speech. Great discussion with @attorneynora.bsky.social at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit
19.05.2025 19:32 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Angela Merkel hat sich deutlich gegen Grenzkontrollen innerhalb der EU ausgesprochen und für eine europäische Lösung im Kampf gegen illegale Migration plädiert. Die Ex-Kanzlerin warnte davor, dass Europa »kaputt gemacht wird«.
22.05.2025 10:50 — 👍 84 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 2
Dieser Doku hätte man auch den Titel „Denn sie wissen, was sie tun“ geben können. Well done, Claus Kleber! Eindrücklich und erschreckend:
www.zdf.de/play/dokus/z...
Machen wir uns nichts vor, das beste an diesem #esc ist Hazel Brugger.
17.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 96 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 0
god i love host Hazel Brugger so much #eurovision
17.05.2025 20:38 — 👍 1275 🔁 220 💬 19 📌 7
Viel zu spät, aber besser als nie: Tiktok verstößt gegen EU-Recht. Aber die Demokratie ist beschädigt, besonders in Rumänien. Wir brauchen bessere Algorithmen und Ende der Manipulation durch die Plattformen zugunsten echter Nutzerentscheidungen. Der Kampf geht weiter! www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...
15.05.2025 10:02 — 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
