Running a futures exercise around OER with faculty and librarians, and theyʻre laughing and having a great time imagining what could come. Hardest part of the day is encouraging them to put their keyboards away and share back. Too much fun.
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Increasingly frustrated with colleagues who are using GenAI to do their work, but do not state it. You can smell it as you read, and the effort required to sort through original content versus AI slop is becoming a burden.
Adrianna TanIf you know students who need this help, contact Hacking Law
Ben Werdmuller"Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week." #AI https://werd.io/2025/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/ [Maxwell Zeff at TechCrunch]I know "don't be evil" is from another era of Google, but still, this rankles: "Google removed a pledge to not build
Simon WillisonSince the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/
OK frens, what free services still work in terms of deleting old tweets?
Ryne HagerRemember when children downloading MP3s to just jam out in the pre-streaming era were sued into oblivion? And now AI companies training on vast libraries of pirated, copyrighted data can just do that without repercussions.
The law never applies to those with money to evade it.
Maybe I'm being naïve but the Crowd Watch app for tracking wildfires reminds me of how crowd sourcing can help connect people with timely information without massive platform costs including the privacy of its users.
@weblearningSo, Open Ai needs to in-jest copyrighted material to make their business model work. https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
@farrow @markusdeimann to be sure, I meant *Bildung* but tripped. Thank you for this work!