Met my MSc dissertation students this week. All good natured people. But the genAI rot is spreading.

About half of them do their work, and ask me questions about the problems they encounter. I advise on possible next steps. We meet again next week. All good.

But.

The other half, each of them perfectly well meaning, came back to me with questions that had nothing to do with their projects, and proposed solutions that are alien to the framework we are using. After some serious conversations, I found that in each case they had relied on chatGTP answers to their prompts. They had not read the actual papers I had given them.

Some had implemented equations that are patently false, not by error (this would be good for learning), but because chatGPT told them so.

A significant part our students can't read anymore. They need to interact with genAI, and they think this is research.

We are heading for trouble. In higher education, and in society at large.

#noAI #AcademicChatter

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.

Explore it here: https://cidree.github.io/forestdata/

#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

Du bist neu in der #FOSSGIS #Community? Du willst andere Menschen treffen, die ähnliche Themen haben, wie Du?
Dann komm zum Vernetzungstreffen @FOSSGISeV am 04.06.2025, 18 Uhr. Dieses findet Online statt und hat das gegenseitige Kennenlernen und gemeinsame Themen entdecken zum Ziel.
Onlineraum: https://osmvideo.cloud68.co/user/kat-nrg-stj-rts

@hafi schlägt eine gemeinsame Doku in einem Whiteboard vor und freut sich auf Euch.

#FOSSGIS #FOSSGIS2024 #FOSSGIS2025 #Newbee

Is it lidar, Lidar, LiDAR, LIDAR, LiDar, LiDaR, or liDAR?

it's “lidar”

https://lidarmag.com/wp-content/uploads/PDF/LiDARNewsMagazine_DeeringStoker-CasingOfLiDAR_Vol4No6.pdf

Just the casual reminder to support your instance if you don't already! Mapstodon.Space runs thanks to the support of more than 50 supporters at https://liberapay.com/mapstodon. Every donation matters, even the smallest, even if it's a one time donation. Let's keep the Fediverse strong and resilient, with many independent instances that sustain themselves!

#SupportYourLocalInstance #Mapstodon #MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Liberapay #DIY #IndependentWeb

Signal strongly opposes the newest #ChatControl proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer