There are some people who want to make you live their life.
CULTURE
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Asian American breaking model minority stereotypes in tech
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Thanks! Also the only Asian American on his team. Catching balls and challenging model minority stereotypes. pic.twitter.com/NSd3zFPlzD
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 24 septembre 2023Thanks! Also the only Asian American on his team. Catching balls and challenging model minority stereotypes.
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Course Marketing Criticism: GenAI Terminology and Educational Clarity
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If the course is really about critical exploration that would be valuable. That is NOT how it is being marketed (the copy that Meredith & I are reacting to.) And calling everything "genAI" is no more helpful than calling everything "AI", really.
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Work-life balance: success without excessive hours
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Hard to go from personal example to general rule but as a counter, I don't think I ever consistently worked crazy hours and did ok so far
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Journalism Schools Embrace Generative AI for Newsletter Production
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The thing literally says that generative AI can help journalists by producing newsletters. To see that coming from a reputable journalism school is alarming, to say the least.
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Expertise Unsolicited: Calling Out Mansplaining in Tech Communities
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Yes, please do keep sharing your expertise as (checks bio) "founder. orgs. tech. cybernetics. ex-biotech." with your Twitter-local professor of computational linguistics. Totally welcome. Not at all 'splainy.
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Synthetic Text for Journalism Raises Serious Ethical Concerns
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The post says **generate newsletters** as one application. That is extremely worrying. I have done some thinking & speaking about when, if ever, synthetic text is appropriate. Hard to see how it ever could be for journalism:
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Synthetic Text in Journalism: Transparency and Ethical Concerns
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Enormous difference. I tell you this from my expertise as a computational linguist. And yes, we need transparency — anytime someone has encountered synthetic media that should be immediately apparent. But also: Synthetic text extruding machines have no place in journalism.
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Stop Selling Generative AI Hype: Reality Check
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If what you are doing is effectively finding ways to go back to the parts of the original documents that are relevant that is fine. This is, again, not "generative AI". Please stop selling the hype.
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Synthetic Text in Journalism Undermines Credibility
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Sorry, when you say "associated contexts" do you mean it's showing you the region of the document that the string was found in? If so, fine. If not: don't use synthetic text in journalism. It is not factual. It is not information. And it undermines everything you are doing.