Jacquelyn Gill

We need Law that basically states that any post about the failures of LLMs will trigger replies from users arguing that no, LLM’s actually work very well for them specifically—not because they’ve independent verified that fact, but because they want it to be true.

I’m not making an assumption. I’m stating a conclusion based on a study of over 10,000 people that you did not read before commenting that ChatGPT is good for learning by quickly summarizing complex information, which is exactly what the study says is much less effective.

Exactly this. Stop normalizing that site and its features. If you're there, you're normalizing it. Full stop. There is no defensible use, except maybe researching or monitoring hate groups. The algorithm is against any goals you have.

I'm not assuming anything. You replied to a post about this specific topic. I recommend doing the reading before showing up to discussion next time.

I think you're being defensive because you don't like being told that using a tool you like is not achieving what you think it is. That's on you. You can either read the accessible article I linked to so you can understand why your assumptions are incorrect, or you can move on. Have a great day.

Also, this is referring to Google, not Google Scholar. The study isn't referring to going to academic sources on topics to improve understanding. It's referring to using an LLB like ChatGPT to explain something, or using an AI overview (which is often incorrect) instead of using multiple sources.

Please do me the courtesy of reading the article I linked to, which is (ironically) an accessible overview of the research study, before trying to argue with me about why this works for you.

Taking longer is not always a bug. Sometimes that's what learning requires. There are no short-cuts.

You may think that this is what the LLMs are doing, but the research I linked to suggests otherwise, unfortunately. I agree that it's important that research be accessible, but given the high rate of errors and the propensity for hallucination as a feature of LLMs, they aren't the tool for this.

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

I’ve been using Kagi for about a year and loving it. You have to pay for it, but it’s so worth it.

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California folks, check out the Golden State Naturalist podcast, so good. She is on Instagram under the same name.
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With emojis! Yes!

I HAVE DIED

"It's not X. It's Y." As in:

"It's not literature. It's liberation." Or whatever unexplained grandiose metaphor is being used.

With liberal sprinklings of similes that really don't work.

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

Which part do you object to, Matthew? The clean air? The clean water? The lack of harmful, cancer-causing chemicals in the places where you work, play, and live?

There’s also been (at least for public institutions) a deliberate pivot away from the mission as we treat higher ed like a for-profit business. All these restructuring exercises based on ROI, closing key departments in the humanities, etc., are not mission-driven decisions.

I would suggest resting it again, because Kendra doesn’t say anything about throwing nuclear away, or even whether it’s good or bad. She even links to a podcast she produced on the history of nuclear energy. She’s very specific in this thread about why TMI closed (in 2018).

Did you read the entire thread? It feels like you’re only responding to the post I reposted.

A helpful thread on nuclear power, why it didn’t work the first time around, and why the tech-bro billionaire class really wants it to anyway.

In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."

I chose Larry Summers.

Better late than never.

Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
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THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Please, someone get on this, because I would love to read it!

Frustrated by the Medical System, Patients Turn to A.I.

New from me + @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social: Many people are using AI to try to fill gaps in the medical system, from rushed appointments to lack of doctor access to dismissal of symptoms. The gaps are real. So are the risks of AI hallucinations and sycophancy (yes, the sodium bromide case is here).

The story is from 2020, which doesn't mean it's not also happening now (and I hope the fact that it's doing the rounds means someone will follow up), nor do I share this to invalidate your point about the horrible, crazy-making gaslighting that living through this moment involves.

Alice Wong created a feed about disability justice. We were lucky to be able to share this space with her.

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Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Alice was an incredible person who worked hard to widen the path to liberation so others could follow. May we be called to rise up in the wake of her passing; may she rest in power.

You got it, friend! Hang in there!