Heather Hill

Hey disabled library folk!

holy cow, I just made happy dinosaur sounds! This will be fantastic!!!!

First review, "I always thought library folk had strong organizational skills....I see I was wrong"

saaaaaame

seriously, stop attacking me

A photo of a newspaper advertisement, showing a zoomed in photo of a hand holding a Pilot brand fountain pen. "Make AI Jealous" is written in Japanese next to the hand, with "Write what AI can't touch" in English underneath.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it

Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

This is 🔥 🔥 🔥

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

christ on a cracker

this! as this garbage keeps getting shoved into library databases, i ask `has it been tested? do we know if it works?`
the answer seems to be, `well, the company tells us yes.`

like wtf?!

well played

And does daylight savings come into play?

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

And that's a big part of my problem with AI/genAI. People keep saying there are good use cases, but we never do them. Or we do them only on the user side and not on the data input and training side. The bad use cases vastly outweigh the good use cases, so why are we still arguing about this?

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks.

"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

my condolences
ugh I hate it when that happens

Given that Microsoft Word has been around since 1983, you'd think it would be getting better and not worse. And you would be wrong.

Literally none of these people are like "you know what, I understand why voters would be wary, and I'm gonna go do some public service to prove my bona fides."

And that's how you know they care about the power, not the service.

Are We Implementing Neuroinclusive Hiring Practices?: An Investigation for Academic Library Positions by Liz Bellamy, Alex Flores Glosson, James Glosson, Mary Oberlies, Michael Runyon and Paul Showalter

Another example - If I, an individual, steal from you, I'll likely end up in jail and it will negatively affect future employment opportunities. But companies can steal wages from their employees, pay a small fine and keep operating.

So Aaron Swartz, an individual, downloads JSTOR and gets targeted by the US 'justice' system (for no reason, he was within his rights) and Sam Altman, via his company, downloads orders of magnitude more (actual theft) and has zero repercussions.

So, do I need to be a company to get away with shit?

mind blown. thank you

fantastic work!

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

yesssssss thank you

all hail the wizard frog

look, Ma - i made the list!
but seriously Microsoft, go fuck yourself