A senior academic writes an opinion piece, advising students not to cut corners. It turns out she didn't actually write it. LLMs wrote the piece for her.

I treasure the fact that at the present moment, we can still see the absurdity in this story.

We can still find this story funny. We can still laugh at this pompous cheat, Professor #CathEllis, a Pro Vice-Chancellor at #WesternSydneyUniversity. In a year's time, Professor Ellis's lazy inauthenticity will be standard. Very likely I will have to meet HR to explain why I don't do the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/05/trust-in-ai-roy-morgan-australia-university-professor-opinion-piece-technology

#noLLM #HigherEducation #StopTheAICorruption

If you have a website without AI-slop content, have you considered joining @david's **human-made web ring**?

 https://human-made.site/

#NoAI #NoLLM #FckAI #FuckLLMs #HumanMade #HumanMadeWebRing #SelfHosting

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@JamesBaker/116662616660744979

Interesting thread about how LLMs can help people with disabilities (like dyslexia or blindness) while industry is…

For these who read about #NoLLM.

Okay, I'll give you that: LLMs aren't the root of the problem.

Capitalism is. The idea of infinite growth. The idea that people can't just live, they must with 40+ hours a week to justify their existence, and they must be purchasing something all the time. Companies must keep selling new stuff. All the resources must be tapped into and exploited.

And companies are making software. They must keep selling new features and pointless complete redesigns nobody wanted. The code must keep being churned over and over again. Programmers must justify their existence by churning out absurd amounts of meaningless code. The companies must exploit them.

Then, companies are entering the #OpenSource "market". They are acquiring and enshittifying. They are hiring and exploiting. And then so many volunteers just jump on the bandwagon and keep cosplaying them. And they too churn out useless code, "sell" pointless complete makeovers, "profit" off their users (even if they actually aren't making any real profit).

And then come LLMs, perfect tools for the job. Perfect tools for exploitation, for churning out useless code, for creating addiction, and for turning everyone into mindless corpospeak bullshit machines.

#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #AntiCapitalism

@davidallengreen

Why not to use genAI.

A gripping tale, told in a court judgement, by a judge with a very fine dry sense of humour.

" [...] a junior associate had used AI to research the point and the AI invented the quotation. The junior associate [LA] did not check it and neither did the solicitors supervising them. LA seems to have almost exclusively relied upon AI to provide the answers and did not check its references, even when told to do so by the AI itself. [...] (section 71)

Every sentence in this tale is worth reading. I love how the judge keeps referring with mock sympathy to the AI tool, which in his account does its best to warn its clueless human user that it really knows nothing and that there are facts that await to be checked by its human user.

Highly entertaining, and frightening too. Frightenig primarily because the junior associate clearly has lost every notion of writing without an AI tool.

#LegalAI #UKLaw #ICCJudgeMullen
#noLLM #StopTheAICorruption

Pope Leo's encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, released today. Focus on genAI.

Reading it as a university teacher and a non-Catholic and an atheist, I find deep truths in this document.

This pope understands the pedagogical challenges posed by the genAI maelstrom; he understands them better than most of my academic colleagues.

Quote from Section 140:

"Education is a long journey requiring patience, and therefore needs time for development and for engagement with reality beyond appearances."

"Educating people about the use of AI, then, involves teaching them to decide when and for what purpose it ought not to be used. The speed and ease with which answers or summaries can be obtained risk extinguishing the desire to ask questions, which is a process that bears fruit only over time."

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#alliance_for_the_digital_age

#PopeLeo #MagnificaHumanitas #HigherEducation #pedagogy #noLLM #AcademicChatter #StopTheAICorruption

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Okay, so apparently there's been some "scuffle" between a cyclist and an old lady. The police's looking for the cyclist now, and shared a camera footage looking for help in finding them. Except that the footage is such a low resolution it's practically useless.

So helpful people from the internets used "#AI" to enhance it. So now we're looking at an angry mob looking for a person whose face was generated by an #LLM. Or well, multiple independently generated different faces apparently, but would that stop a mob from lynching a random person?

This fucking crap needs to be outlawed immediately. And whoever's selling it should end up behind bars.

#NoAI #NoLLM

New #slop recognition criteria just dropped: a project bumps the dependency to `setuptools>=61.0.0` (valid but most people don't care) and adds a `wheel` dependency while at it (wrong).

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiodns/pull/252#discussion_r3252294971
https://github.com/micheles/decorator/commit/05480a17ebd4c4c81ca16526c3add53a16a7831f#r185646957

#NoAI #NoLLM