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Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

@martinvermeer writing is my passion

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

@matherion sorry to hear — free to DM me your details and I can try for you if I am allowed.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

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Martin Vermeer FCD 2d ago

@olivia The petition is almost worth signing for its use of the Oxford comma alone...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

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Andreas Grois 2d ago

@mttaggart Sorry, but this is something I can only comment on in meme-form.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

Faye 3d ago

🚨Warrants a direct share… 🚨
By dear Olivia Guest @olivia

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

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Vesna Manojlović 2d ago

@earthworm @emilymbender @alex @parismarx @aral @ali @milamiceli here’s more: @olivia & @Iris ; I don’t qualify due to no PhD , but here’s my work too : https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/AI_is_ecocide

User:Becha/AI is ecocide - Technologia Incognita

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

@samuel @danstowell totally fine if you dislike the language to therefore not sign. I do not like calling it generative AI myself because it is a technical term used to refer to what is actually chatbots, an app, regardless of the stats. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_model) My problem is not with any specific statistics, but these products, as we clearly say.

Generative model - Wikipedia

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VelteropⓐⓊ🪂🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇩🇪2d ago

@olivia Quite. Shouldn't uncritically adopting 'any' unproven technology be anathema to academia?

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 2d ago

Vesna Manojlović 3d ago

An amazing text about / against AI in academia , by/ with comrades from @ScientistRebellion_NL

https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic

Edit : by @olivia et.al

Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability

How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas?

Sustainability Dispatch

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