"Often you not only are the product — yes, they will steal and sell your data — but you are also robbed of learning." -- @olivia.science
The Grammarly Effect. Finally people see how the LLM sausage is made.
tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/art...
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I really like this idea: Notice the micro-behaviours and use them to make inferences about wider contexts.
In addition, their using DEI as a weapon to be untouchable or to recuse themselves from criticism.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it
Coupled with a climate of increased anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise and the very effective AI propaganda machine, you have a perfect storm wherein spicy autocomplete is taken to be more objective, more trustworthy than marginalized experts.
Dr. Nair is right and this is part of the broader appeal to objectivity in LLMs that was noted over a decade ago by Safiya Noble in her engagement with Google search.
The objectivity of the machine, which is really cis-white abled bodied male objectivity, trumps the expertise of marginalized folks.
Someone ask me how many times I've been called uninformed, naive, and unsophisticated in my work on generative AI refusal.
You know what? The intellectual giants incapable of comprehending that a woman might know more than them being too mentally lazy to even make up their own bullshit as to why and instead offload that to the bullshit machine tracks, actually
Everything is gender, because I do see this happening to professional/expert women a lot. At least some of this is ‘surely you, a woman, can’t be right when this LLM is saying otherwise’
WE’LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT
The wait is (almost) over! @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social is coming to audiences on March 27th! Screenings and rentals are available via Kinema, and the film will stream free on PBS and YouTube this fall. Details at: notaidoc.com
We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.
This advice is also helpful bsky.app/profile/sol-... but I am still thinking what I learnt from my own experiences.
Maybe signs of ‘entitlement’ and of ‘instrumentalism’.
Thank you for sharing — this is what I have been learning, too.
So many of these lately bsky.app/profile/emil...
See also bsky.app/profile/disa...
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The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.
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that quote reminds me of the opening quote we used @andreaeyleen.bsky.social here:
[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592) doi.org/10.1007/s421...
so even a baby knows "correlation does not imply cognition" 🙃
📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
“Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
Thank you for sharing — very helpful.
This advice is also helpful bsky.app/profile/sol-... but I am still thinking what I learnt from my own experiences.
Maybe signs of ‘entitlement’ and of ‘instrumentalism’.
Sadly, I do not yet know myself what are the red flags, how I can recognise early without being too suspicious. I do not want to be too distrusting, but it is also clear that I have in some senses been too trusting, or naive if you will.
Gambling addict and online troll Nate Silver now going after Emily, comparing her to existential risker and overall creep Yudkowsky.
I couldn't have changed my derby name quickly enough.
I have been observing a pattern.
Some people weaponise DEI to advance their own careers and positions, in contrast to pursuing DEI to support *others*.
I have been tricked by this, now at least 3 times (and possibly more often, unnoticed by me).
I am trying to learn how to spot this earlier.
This is the whole point of the AI industry..an Orwellian world of the ever-present, which destroys history, culture, science, literature...so it can manufacture "reality" in the interests of fascists.
Great and clear video clip 🎬👇
