Maria Ashton-Stebbings

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Mom, wife, librarian.

WHAT HAVE I BEEN SCREAMING FOR YEARS?

'Results of a set of experiments found that individuals learning about a topic from large language model summaries develop shallower knowledge compared to when they learn through standard web search.'

https://www.psypost.org/learning-from-ai-summaries-leads-to-shallower-knowledge-than-web-search/

Learning from AI summaries leads to shallower knowledge than web search

A new study reveals that using AI chatbots to learn about a topic leads to shallower knowledge compared to traditional web searching. The ease of AI summaries may actually hinder deep learning.

PsyPost Psychology News

Today in 1998, 27 years ago: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He dies five days later.

#OnThisDay

Look up Horst Wessel.

Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/press-conference-no-transgender-or

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Press Conference: No "Transgender" Or "LGBTQ" Symbols Found At Kirk's Shooting

Yesterday, several media outlets claimed or strongly implied that "transgender symbols" were found at the scene of the gun used by Charlie Kirk's shooter. This turned out to be false.

Erin In The Morning
Ok people: we are not going to condone slavery. We are also not going to dumb down our history, ban books, or sanitize museums. We own it; we work through it. We make it better. That's America.
We are not...that is all. Stop it.
--librarian and history major who reads lots of thick books on these subjects.

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

The Product Picnic
Thank you, Sen. Schiff, for staying focused and seeking always to hold him accountable.