Show threadA. Rivera15h ago

Side note: And speaking of #AISlop, in light of the webinar I just watched, one of the presenters who was a professor (not at U of Chicago) mentioned their campus had some #sloperator enterprise system they paid for.

Ugh.

> AI Tools at UChicago
https://president.uchicago.edu/From-the-President/Announcements/AI-Tools-at-UChicago

#cogsucker #academia #HigherEd #BadEconomy

Show threadA. Rivera15h ago

Takeaway: Skills #librarians need to keep and do:

> Prompt engineering
> Verifying and evaluating information and sources (librarians have always done this and need to keep doing it).
> Spend as little time as possible using #AISlop (some half hearted acknowledgement of the environmental costs).

#sloperator #cogsucker #academia #HigherEd

Show threadA. Rivera15h ago

Oh dear #CosmicJoker, did that presenter just say about using a lesson making students to take handwritten notes, re: a text, and then say student used #AISlop to sum up the reading then make notes by hand from that and submit photo of the notes? And this was OK?

FFS.

#cogsucker #sloperator

Show threadA. Rivera15h ago

@VCP CHOICE and ProQuest.

Having said that, not the first webinar with #AISlop topic I've seen recently with similar pattern.

#sloperator #cogsucker

A. Rivera15h ago

#Listening to webinar on AI in academia, and it is pretty much all how wonderful it is, the things it can do, there is an AI for this or that.

Strong sell, but not a peep about the ethics, environmental impacts, AI stealing content, etc.

#AISlop #cogsucker #sloperator #academia #HigherEd

A. Rivera16h ago

#BarelySatire

> College Professor  Pretty Sure   Student Using    AI To Refuse Advances https://theonion.com/college-professor-pretty-sure-student-using-ai-to-refuse-advances/

#academia #HigherEd #AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #tech

College Professor  Pretty Sure   Student Using    AI To Refuse Advances

EAST LANSING, MI—Calling the 21-year-old’s replies to his emails and text messages “rote” and “overly formal,” local professor Lowell Sterbenz told reporters Friday he was “pretty sure” student Evelyn Atwater was using AI to refuse his sexual advances. “It really is a shame with these undergrads these days,” said the 63-year-old Sterbenz, an art history professor […]

The Onion
A. Rivera1d ago

> The ChatGPT Study Everyone Shared Was Retracted
https://aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-chatgpt-study-everyone-shared

Unlike the author having to reflect now, I did not share the article in question, in part because I have little regard for #AISlop and in part because I barely saw it.

#sloperator #cogsucker #academia #HigherEd #research #retraction

The ChatGPT Study Everyone Shared Was Retracted

A widely cited study claiming ChatGPT improved student learning has now been retracted. This article explores what the controversy reveals about AI research, information literacy, peer review, and the growing pressure on schools to make decisions before evidence has fully matured.

The AI School Librarians Newsletter
A. Rivera1d ago

> Chatbot teddies for three-year-olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids https://theconversation.com/chatbot-teddies-for-three-year-olds-why-ai-toys-are-risky-for-kids-284195

We already had a "chatty" teddy bear; it was called Teddy Ruxpin. And unlike modern #AISlop, it did NOT "discuss very adult topics – such as sexual fetishes and how to find knives and start fires."

#sloperator #cogsucker #tech #toys

Chatbot teddies for three-year-olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids

AI toys can tell stories, chat about a child’s interests, play games or even discuss what’s happening in the world today. But they come with risks.

The Conversation
A. Rivera1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116685197302299115

What do you know? The #AISlop is mostly hype.

#sloperator #cogsucker #BadEconomy

A. Rivera2d ago

In consolidation news of the #BadEconomy

> Wiley Acquires Emerald, Expanding Research Scale and Deepening Proprietary Content Across the AI-Driven Knowledge Economy
https://johnwiley2020news.q4web.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2026/Wiley-Acquires-Emerald-Expanding-Research-Scale-and-Deepening-Proprietary-Content-Across-the-AI-Driven-Knowledge-Economy/default.aspx

FTA: "...the acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics..."

Yea, a lot of it is to feed #AISlop.

#academia #HigherEd #publishing #sloperator #cogsucker

Wiley Acquires Emerald, Expanding Research Scale and Deepening Proprietary Content Across the AI-Driven Knowledge Economy

Meaningfully expands Wiley’s journal portfolio to ~2,500 titles and establishes category leadership across economics, business, finance, and the social sciences All-cash transaction valued at ~7x Adjusted EBITDA (including targeted cost synergies); expected to be accretive to Adjusted EPS in year one Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today announced it has acquired Emerald Publishing Limited (“Emerald”) from Cambridge Information Group (CIG) in an all-cash transaction valued at £337 million, or USD 452 million. The acquisition expands Wiley’s journal portfolio to approximately 2,500 titles and establishes it as a leader in the social sciences — particularly economics, business, and finance. In addition to strengthening Wiley's scale advantage in Research, the acquisition deepens Wiley’s proprietary content position for use in AI and data analytics, at a moment when demand for trusted peer-reviewed research content is accelerating