Of course, I'm in favor for bringing back the guillotine for the oligarchy. I'm just saying that we should also bring back burning at the stake for people using so-called AI.
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“When people try to tell you that the future is already settled, it is because it is deeply unsettled,” argues sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. The intensity of Big Tech’s insistence on the inevitability and superiority of #LLM technology, in the academy or anywhere else, indicates not the truth of their claim, but their eagerness for it to be accepted as true without debate or critique. Now is not the moment to acquiesce, but to interrogate and to resist.
- Joseph A. Howley, The AI Industry’s Myth of Inevitability: Automating and devaluing literacy in Higher Education (links in original text omitted) https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-1-8-26/
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within the Dominican Republic, Roman camels in Basel, protecting buildings from earthquakes during the Tang and Song Dynasties, a
Roman enslavers insisted enslaved people could not be Authors and Readers in part because of the obvious fact that they were. In the modern economy, basic literacy and the modes of critical thought and expression that draw on it are potent as human faculties that have thus far defied automation. Literate thought and its cultivation confer power, both in political and labor contexts, and the “ #AI” bubble, with its empty promises of making those capacities obsolete, offers our own ruling classes a chance to permanently discipline and relegate this last unconquered frontier — creative and knowledge work.
- Joseph A. Howley, The AI Industry’s Myth of Inevitability: Automating and devaluing literacy in Higher Education from Pasts Imperfect (1.8.26) https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-1-8-26/
This week, we are back from holiday break with a deep dive into the ethics, big business, and myth-peddling of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education. Then, bees in ancient jawbones within the Dominican Republic, Roman camels in Basel, protecting buildings from earthquakes during the Tang and Song Dynasties, a
@ldottxt A commendable, principled stand. I hope you find new work soon.
Since what AI produces is often called “slop,” I propose renaming AI to “slop machines.” It sounds very like “slot machines,” and has a similar probability of paying off.
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