Michael Peterson

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I teach performance art and theatre, and make "social practice" arts projects with Spatula&Barcode.
On Metafilter I'm Mngo.
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My experience with generative-AI has been that, at its very best, it is subtly wrong in ways that only an expert in the relevant subject would recognise. So I don't worry about us creating super-intelligent AI, I worry about us allowing that expertise to atrophy through laziness and greed. I refuse to use LLMs not because I'm scared of how clever they are, but because I do not wish to become stupider.

I spent my education career pushing back against crap like this, so let me clue you in on something:

When a tech company invests in schools, it's never for the benefit of student learning. It's always, always for creating loyal customers out of the students and teachers.

(h/t @AAKL)

https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-new-google-partnership-a-sizable-investment-in-ai-for-teachers/

Exclusive: New Google Partnership a ‘Sizable Investment’ in AI for Teachers

Tech giant won’t attach a price tag to 3-year agreement with ISTE+ASCD.

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance (‘¡Dios Mío!’ Cry Millions Of Panicking Republicans)

BOISE, ID—Crying out “¡Dios mío!” and “¡Ayúdame!” as soon as they heard the opening notes of the Puerto Rican superstar’s “EoO,” millions of terrified conservatives reportedly lo…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Why I Left Substack. A combination of “a good deal of gross misogyny, transphobia, and hard-right stuff” plus Substack “trying to deny this responsibility [as a publisher], to pretend that their decisions weren’t decisions at all”. https://buttondown.com/MaxGladstone/archive/why-i-left-substack
Why I Left Substack

in case you can't guess

The Third Place

Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the #microslop tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

#microslop #microsoft #copilot #sloppilot #AI #genAI #AISlop #AIBubble

Anyway, read the whole essay. It's truly excellent.

https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

Public Books

i unironically do want “transgender for everybody”

name changes that don’t mess up your credit. hormones and abortion pills over the counter. standards of “looking professional“ that aren’t patriarchal and white-supremacist. hell yeah

you don’t need to *use* transgender but you should be allowed to *have* it

hug your local mastodon.social user