I’ve struggled to put into words what it is I’m trying to do when I make photographs. Most recently, I’ve written, “to get a viewer of my work to connect their personal experiences with what they perceive in my images. I wish for my photographs to be a launching point for introspection, storytelling, and conversation.”

This quote of Robert Frank nails it much more succinctly than I ever could.

#photography #inspiration

We have spotted quite a few students using generative AI in their essays this summer and applied standard academic misconduct proceedings, though in most cases the work was so bad they would've failed anyway.

Today I learned of one whose use was sufficiently extensive that they will fail their degree.

I am wondering if this is *the first time a student has failed a whole degree for using AI*? Would love to hear about other cases. If you want to tell me in confidence, my Session ID is in my Bio

There is an alternate timeline where the semantic web took off and there was wide investment in ontological tooling to ensure that the information in academic papers, websites, and applications was structured and accessible to future processing.

We instead live in a world where all the useful data is trapped inside proprietary formats, and entangled in meaningless prose - a world primed for large language models to come along and hallucinate the data that might contained therein.

I’ve taken to asking my coworkers if they feel like “search has gotten worse over the years” to my surprise most have said… no.

The only exception was the other CS teacher. How do your friends feel about how well search works? I feel like I used to know where everything was and someone rearranged my house— it’s not really my house of course but yeah.