Dr Zara Bain

Or it would have messed it up much more significantly, possibly making up days of the week or months.

The perennial risk of Marbruary

If I had used an AI maybe I wouldn’t have mucked up the scheduling slightly because of the twin demands of my two year old and a migraine, maybeeeee! Doubtful

Wrote a client email today where I had to include a “fun fact” that you can pry em-dashes from my cold dead hands and they’re in no way evidence that I’ve used AI to write anything, which sucks

Children's Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them Despite banning minors from using their chatbots, AI companies are happy to let their models be used in children's toys.

New report “suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults.”

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Okay this is funny

“The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill…”

“When asked if Superhuman considered notifying the people named in its AI feature, or requesting their permission, Gay [vice president of product and corporate marketing at Grammarly] said, ‘The experts in Expert Review appear because their published works are publicly available and widely cited.’”

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Lawsuits when.

Solid Branding

@drcarpineti.bsky.social and @prideinstem.bsky.social very likely to be able to sort you out

here to complain about being tired again

But honestly pals

SO tired

I had to sleep from 8-12 because I had a migraine

Then I worked and parented

I don’t think my body is happy with me

Imagine if worms in hats did drive apple-cars about though.

I’ve seen this movie crop up on the LEGEND channel and it is truly the stuff of LEGEND

Do not buy creeptech, do not wear creeptech, and do not tolerate the creeps who do.

I have had a migraine almost every day this week and frankly I’m a bit sick of it

This is a basic and crucial point for any discussion of LLMs’ use in teaching research or writing. Whether it can ape us, fool us, or get facts right or wrong is, in the end, irrelevant. The LLM is not the thinker we are trying to encourage; the LLM is not the writer that we are trying to improve.

Okay, I'm going to go out and eat food with my kids, but when I get back I would love to see a clutch of you in my inbox telling me all about your transcription projects that you need support with.

Okay?

Okay.

Email me the deets, beloveds, no pressure, but me and my team can help you! Promise!

Who wants a replay of my webinar last night on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance? You can still sign-up using the form here and get the link!

YouTube video by SaltNPepaVEVO Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Official Music Video)

Not nearly enough Salt-N-Pepa going around if you ask me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCad...

so glad you enjoyed it!

This was wildly good folks - if epistemic injustice is even tangentially relevant to your research this is well worth watching (hopefully will share some more thought out thoughts later)

Who wants a replay of my webinar last night on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance? You can still sign-up using the form here and get the link!

The migraine that I have

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m supposed to be going to a thing tomorrow for social enterprises and then a big business conference next week as accessibility support staff and I have had to cancel both because of lurg

Small good news

Omg YES

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social