David J. Hensley

Did you see the post a while back from the guy who went on a date, and his date asked ChatGPT what she should order for dinner? The same reason as students having AI do low-stakes, fun, "get to know you" stuff: abdication of any kind of decision-making (or mental effort).

AI outputs are typically worse than algorithimic searches, and very often contain "hallucinated" (nonexistent) citations, because AI cannot judge/reason, and usually cannot actually search the live web, but only produce things that mimic the pattern of its inputs.

Students turning in annotated bibliographies, complete with hallucinated "citations" and still containing "Sure, here is the output for your prompt" language from the LLM: ✔️
Students submitting ungraded, informal introductions in an online class that are nevertheless clearly spat out by an LLM: ✔️

Ah, that makes sense.

Apparently an old term for Finnic peoples (Finns, Estonians, etc.).

Yeah it's terrible. I've seen academics get fooled by this. If you look up "udm14" there are tools for making Google with no AI summary your default search, on both compters and phones.

oh I'm not a fan!

I know of a college history prof who apparently does a similar exercise with their students.

Bidets may not be "American" but they should be.

I know academic administrators who use Google AI to create "podcasts" of reports they think are too long for them to read.

I know academics who put long readings into Google AIs to get a "podcast" to listen to instead of doing the reading. We are doomed.

Yeah I was looking for more like an organized or principled movement, but I applaud your student's perspicacity.

Are there any examples my academic followers on here know about of *student* resistance to the use of LLMs, among undergrads or graduate students?

The real question driving AI hype — Marco Rogers This post reproduces a twitter thread where I examine a fundamental question underlying a lot of the fervor around AI. One fascinating part of this emerging era of human-like AI is learning what tr...

marcorogers.com/blog/the-rea... Seems apropos

brb moving my investments into hydrogen dirigibles

Google map with a pinned location just south of Jackson, Mississippi.

"Michigan":

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.

Did you see this piece of credulous (sorry to borrow your term) fluff, from an honest-to-goodness historian? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The extremely deterministic methods of LLMs -- basically a probability calculator for words -- also seem to fly in the face of the turn toward "contingency" as a historical explanation in the last few decades.

It assumes that the LLM can somehow know the totality of a person's thoughts through the portion of their written words that have survived -- and of course, what's the guarantee that the body of texts hasn't been chosen to favor particular narratives / interpretations?

Apparently a historian at a college near my own has her students "interview" historical figures like Thomas Jefferson and whatnot by asking questions of LLMs that have been "instructed" to respond in the voice of those people. Jesus wept.

Now most places that don't take federal money tend to lean right anyway, but what's interesting -- chilling? -- about attacking accreditation is that it is an attempt to force ideological compliance on places that cannot be readily bent by just taking away (or threatening to do so) federal funds.

Can't wait for Hillsdale to hire some Leninists and med schools to hire some people who believe in the humoral theory of disease to promote viewpoint diversity and keep their accreditation.

Can't wait for the AI version of Cyrano de Bergerac to hallucinate a bunch of non-existent works by the Old Masters when some bro is trying to impress his date.

"Once you have paid him the Danegeld / You never get rid of the Dane."

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "meaning... measured by capital?" Recent events have led me to think that capitalism tends to be the handmaiden of fascism rather than the other way around.

Video evidence needed

Yes, It's Fascism It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.

Good piece from @kjephd.bsky.social

RIP Dartmouth v. Woodward?

"Mass Deportation to Ease Demand." What a wretched line.

Edwardian*, sigh