Jean-Michel Lapointe

With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?

My fellow Wikimedian @antisomniac.bsky.social wrote about Grokipedia: "All of this is ultimately subordinate to Grokipedia's unavoidable prime directive of neutrality: neutrality is whatever Elon Musk says is neutral."
www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...

CommonsDB - Meta-Wiki

CommonsDB, a new registry that enables users to verify the rights status of online images

Great tool in the making presented @ Wiki GLAM in Lisbon today

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsDB

Outils d’« intelligence artificielle » | L’université est plus qu’une simple cliente des géants du numérique Une trentaine de professeurs font part de leurs préoccupations à la direction de l'Université de Montréal quant à l’adoption de « solutions » d’IA qui leur semble inconciliables avec la mission de l’é...

L’université est plus qu’une simple cliente des géants du numérique www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Infographie: Plus de la moitié du trafic web mondial provient désormais de bots Cette infographie montre l'évolution de la répartition du trafic web mondial généré par des humains et des bots de 2019 à 2024, en %.

Plus de la moitié du trafic web mondial provient désormais de bots fr.statista.com/infographie/...

Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Le mondes des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nouveau bouquin de Marcello Vitali-Rosati que j’ai très hâte de lire : « C’est la matière qui pense -
Pour une philosophie de l’édition »

ceen.univ-rouen.fr/matiere-marc...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums "This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...

American Climate Scientists Have a New Canadian Hero - Macleans.ca How McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump

McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump macleans.ca/society/amer...

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors The rapid development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies has led to widespread endorsement of GenAI systems serving as a ‘personal tutor’ and learning ‘collaborator’ in higher education. However...

Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The physicality of learning Generative AI threatens the valuable process of searching for answers

The physicality of learning -
Generative AI threatens the valuable process of searching for answers

jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/the-physic...

Qui sont les « petites mains » de Wikipedia, l'encyclopédie libre qui agace réacs et géants de la Tech Chaque jour, des millions d'internautes y trouvent des infos et du savoir gratuitement et en accès libre. Mais ce site n'existerait pas sans ses bénévoles. Des « wikimédien·nes » racontent ce que sign...

Qui sont les « petites mains » de Wikipedia, l’encyclopédie libre qui agace réacs et géants de la Tech basta.media/Qui-sont-les...

I wrote about this in this week's newsletter. I seriously believe one of the main reasons ChatGPT grew is that Google Search both failed to meaningfully innovate, especially in how it answered a user's query, and eventually deteriorated into something worse.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

Will the Humanities Survive AI? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda

U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

AI companies demand huge amounts of data to train their programs. Peer inside LibGen, a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Selon un pédiatre | «Le développement d'un enfant ira mieux s’il ne voit pas d'écran avant six ans» Écoutez le Dr Jean François Chicoine, pédiatre au CHU Sainte Justine, professeur agrégé de clinique à l Université de Montréal, en discuter.

«Un enfant va aller mieux s'il ne regarde pas du tout d'écran avant l'âge de six ans. Je répète: le développement d'un enfant ira mieux s’il ne voit pas d'écran avant six ans.»
Dr Jean-François Chicoine
www.985fm.ca/audio/690394...

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share their latest findings before they had been systematically reviewed or verified. If arXiv stopped functioning, scientists would suffer an immediate and profound disruption.

Léo Joubert : « La force de Wikipédia, c’est la pluralité des engagements qu’elle suscite » La célèbre encyclopédie en ligne fait face à des accusations de partialité idéologique, de la part d’Elon Musk comme de l’hebdomadaire « Le Point ». Le sociologue Léo Joubert, auteur d’une thèse sur l...

Léo Joubert : « La force de Wikipédia, c’est la pluralité des engagements qu’elle suscite » sur @la-croix.com

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.

When politicians ban books, I read them. So when I heard that Meta - who, of course, believes in free speech - is using egregious legal tactics to silence a former employee's book, my eyebrows went up. Who else is reading "Careless People" just cuz Meta is suing? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...

The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.

Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency, punctiliousness, and accessible knowledge.

So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has lately taken time from his busy schedule of dismantling the federal government to attack Wikipedia.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Wikipédia: qui veut sa peau (et pourquoi)? | Au Poste, média indépendant 100% Live & Libre Internet | Wikipédia, survivance étincelante du web pionnier, est notre combat. Aux Etats-Unis, Musk vomit désormais l'encyclopédie, jugée trop woke à son goût, et cherche à pister ses contributeurs...

L'émission du jour Au Poste: Wikipédia: qui veut sa peau (et pourquoi)? www.auposte.fr/wikipedia-qu... | #AuPoste média 100% Live et en accès libre grâce à nos donateur·ice·s

⚡ « Le Point » contre Wikipédia : on fait le point sur la mécanique du conflit en cours 👇
larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/nod...

Cosmopolitique des communs Prolongeant leur « Enquête sur la souveraineté de l'État », le philosophe Pierre Dardot et le sociologue Christian Laval en appellent désormais à une cosmopolitique des communs. Ils sont rejoints par ...

Vers une cosmopolitique des communs - Dardot et Laval www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.

Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".

Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".

We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lisbon Academy of Sciences adds wikipedian and wikimedian into the Portuguese language New words on the Portuguese Language Dictionary: «Wikipedista» and «Wikimedista» The Lisbon Science Academy ( responsible for the Portuguese Language Dictionary, included two new words in their off…

Wikipédiens ou wikipédistes? Pour désigner les personnes qui contribuent à l’encyclopédie libre, le premier terme est le plus usité, mais je préfère de loin le second. Heureux d’apprendre que l’Académie des sciences de Lisbonne retient « wikipedista » diff.wikimedia.org/2025/01/31/l...