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[?]Kevin Karhan :verified: » 🌐
@kkarhan@infosec.space

@petersuber seriously, I think this should be reason alone to ditch in any & facility.

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    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
    @Nonilex@masto.ai

    Well done 🤦🏼‍♀️

    in Surge in Global Rankings as Slip

    still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.


    nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/harv

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      [?]Patrick Leavy » 🌐
      @patrickleavy@mastodon.social

      "LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth"

      rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

      Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit 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.

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        [?]PrivacyDigest » 🌐
        @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

        A Developer Accidentally Found in Data. Him For It

        Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accts after he uploaded AI data to his . Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers & distributed via an file sharing site, contained child material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety org, which eventually resulted in the dataset’s removal

        404media.co/a-developer-accide

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          [?]Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: » 🌐
          @adamshostack@infosec.exchange

          Poll!

          Should I have included this final sentence in an email declining to do more in getting an academic paper published?

          Please invite the ( ) 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
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            [?]Anthony » 🌐
            @abucci@buc.ci

            Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
            https://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.