On this holiday of syllabus-writing, here's my policy statement about AI:

Okay, I'm very confused by this: a (months-old) Twitter account with exactly one tweet, and it's a random citation of my book. Huh?! What's the game here?

The headline writer for my local small-town newspaper either needs some grammar help or has been listening to too much right-wing talk radio:

This afternoon at 3:15pm I'll be debuting my newest #videoessay at #SCMS23 in C23, “It Was a Work of Art, and it Was Just Real Life: Watching #TheRehearsal” - come check it out!

Today I finished a draft of my latest video essay about #TheRehearsal - as befits the topic, it's... a trip. I'll debut it at #SCMS23 next Wednesday - should be an interesting panel!

I asked #GPT4 to define narrative complexity on television using citations. It generated a fake quotation from one of my books. I replied it was wrong, so it apologetically generated a different fake quotation from one of my articles. This is a tool for shoddy research.

Today in unnervingly specific spam texts:

TFW the phishing texts you get from random numbers start feeling a bit too judgy:

I think #mastodon needs more of the goofy little meme things from #twitter. So I tried this post from @Emilynussbaum and got identical results (but stuck around for more). WTF?!?!
"My New Year’s resolution is to be a part of the family of the two men who died in the attack on the World Trade Center in New York on June twenty ninth at the Pentagon in Washington Memorial in Washington Memorial in Washington Memorial Park."

Even a beta-version of an AI understands why the first amendment doesn't apply to private platforms like Twitter. Pretty amazing how many "tech leaders" can't understand these basic concepts. #TwitterFiles #ChatGPT