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@petersuber seriously, I think this should be reason alone to ditch #Microsoft in any #academic & #education facility.
Well done #Trump 🤦🏼♀️
#Universities in #China Surge in Global Rankings as #US #Schools Slip
#Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring #academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
#education #law #immigration #StudentVisas #WorkVisas #GovernmentInterference #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #censorship #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harvard-global-ranking-chinese-universities-trump-cuts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth"
Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit #AI citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.
The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.
A Developer Accidentally Found #CSAM in #AI Data. #Google #Banned Him For It
Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accts after he uploaded AI #training data to his #GoogleDrive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers & distributed via an #academic file sharing site, contained child #sexualAbuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety org, which eventually resulted in the dataset’s removal
https://www.404media.co/a-developer-accidentally-found-csam-in-ai-data-google-banned-him-for-it/
Poll!
Should I have included this final sentence in an email declining to do more #toil in getting an academic paper published?
Please invite the (#academic #publisher) to the venue, at their own expense, where there is plenty of sand for them to pound.
| Too much: | 0 |
| Just right: | 0 |
| milquetoast, swear more: | 0 |
Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AIhttps://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai
This will keep happening. For-profit academic publishers should never have been allowed to exist in the first place; those chickens are now coming home to roost.