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Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

So glad this is being used in schools and universities.

All I know is that jerk is not getting my Researcher of the Year award

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

my head is about to explode

This seems to be real and if so, the news needs to be amplified! 📫

To get a same-day postmark, we now have to go inside and request it!

answers so wrong they can only have come from ChatGPT

#grading

The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care

Glad you’re back 💪

So all this "what are you going to do with a degree in X?" handwringing is sort of nonsense. Unless you know you want to go down a pretty specific technical career path, your undergraduate major just does not matter that much. Which I wish we conveyed to students better.

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

Now the problem is that generative AI programs have made take homework extremely difficult to assess. That is a real problem and I don’t have an obvious answer, but complaining about accommodations is not the solution.

I don't exactly know how to explain to people who read a newspaper lede and ask ChatGPT about it that this will leave them considerably less informed than they started

This 🧵

I’m gonna need you guys to exercise some critical thinking skills.

Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

Really well done this

defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Beware giving this site your unpublished data Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.

The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com

Health care in the USA: money has become the mission Despite extraordinary scientific and medical resources, the US health-care system underperforms. In this Review we consider the damage wrought by decades of market-based policies that have stimulated ...

This should be open access, but you can read it via the #NYPL and probably other libraries (at least for now)

Health care in the USA: money has become the mission - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For? Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

🤯

Google search results for Turkmenistan where the AI overview reads "Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by the Caspian Sea to the west and several other Central Asian nations to the east and south. It is known for its vast natural gas reserves, which drive its economy, and its capital, Ashgabat." Turkmenistan however is not landlocked, as the next clause of the sentence says. Its entire western border is the Caspian Sea, actually.

The previous image, edited with labels on the Caspian Sea that read "literally water" and "not 'land'"

Google's "AI overview" continues to do its thing (be wrong). Meanwhile "AI" continues to be rammed down educators' and students' throats on a daily basis.

a polar bear is laying down in the snow Alt: a polar bear is laying down in the snow

tfw you are given two days’ notice to provide feedback on a critical resource for teaching

WTG, UW Psych 210 class 💜💛💪

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I think the world would be a better place if everybody simply put their thesis in the first paragraph or two of their essay, every single time.

Won't you join me in making this dream reality?