Here is the mistake we are making: we keep thinking that national politics in America is something other than a result of celebrity, charisma, and the incumbency and nepotism of elite power.

Y’all I just recently learned the phrase “zombie internet,” used to describe social networks and sites flooded with AI generated content, receiving AI generated boosts and replies. Academics face a related threat, as courses are prepped and taught with the help of AI, and taken by students using AI to pass them. And the business world is there as well: LLMs in emails, proposals, analysis, reports. We risk creating a world of bots talking to bots in “AI Slop.” We need a better theory of #AIGov.

I work in #InfoGov and #AIGov but formerly was an academic. I have graded thousands of papers and know the pain of teachers and professors at this time of year. There is a lot of pain. And lately in my network I have seen hundreds of posts about new levels of suffering, as graders deal with AI Slop turned in by students. LLMs will forever change the way we write, learn, and teach. It’s a very steep curve of change. What we need to do is learn the tool and teach people to use it wisely.

@caleb @YesJustWolf I am a total beginner too, and only an intermediate beginner with Python, and really I don’t know if it will help you, Wolf, but I found this article to be a useful orientation point and it has some good learning suggestions: https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/rust-and-go