You and I are saying the same thing. I just strongly disagree with the approach of telling people "Resistance is futile. Join us or die." AI is tech. It's not a cult.
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SXSW Audience Rejects Pro-AI Narrative Pushes Back
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I absolutely can't stand the narrative of "AI is here, stop resisting it and it get on board." I'm not saying there's no truth to the narrative. I just really dislike that approach to getting people on board. Here's a video of the audience at SXSW booing a pro-AI video that https://
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Palantir CEO Discusses Leadership and Openness in Agile Culture
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LLMs Expose Decline of Scientific Publishing Standards
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"Certainly, here is" is the new "As an AI language model". I don't think that LLMs are killing scientific publishing, they are illustrating to which degree scientific publishing is already dead. https://
scholar.google.com/scholar?as_sdt
=05&as_ylo=2023&q=certainly+here+is+-chatgpt+-llm&oq=certainly+here+is+-chatgpt+-llm
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Motivating Student Effort in the Age of ChatGPT
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If we want students to actually put work into essays and assignments in a world of ChatGPT, we are going to have to explain to them the benefits they get from doing the hard work. Otherwise they will justify outsourcing some/all of their thinking to AI as “being efficient.”
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Beyond Enshittification: Accurate Naming for Platform Decay
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I thought the original “enshittificafion” idea was useful for illuminating a problem with platforms. I don’t think it is worth applying to everything as it obscures diverse reasons for decay: organizational inertia, AI spam, reduced capacity. Accurate naming helps solve problems
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Facebook Office Evolution: Dreams and Innovation Over Two Decades
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#FridayThoughts Facebook Office today vs. 20 years back – you can go for it and achieve your dreams, can‘t you? Source @TerenceLeungSF #innovation #Facebook #tech #SocialMedia #AI #ML #Leadership #success #entrepreneur #startup #FutureofWork @jblefevre60 @FrRonconi
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Nuance as Bullshit: Rhetoric in Tech Discourse
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‘nuance’ is simply a French word for ‘bullshit’ (‘problematic’ = attack things we don’t want to explain, ‘nuanced’ = defend things we don’t want to explain)
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3078 Endangered Languages Face Extinction Risk Globally
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“3,078 languages are endangered and at risk of becoming extinct” https://
visualcapitalist.com/cp/state-of-th
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Web designers and developers shape tomorrow’s digital future
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"As designers and developers for the web (and beyond), we’re responsible for building the future every day, whether that may take the shape of personal websites, social media tools used by billions, or anything in between.