Christo Hall

Researchers warned against using AI to peer review academic papers Top AI conferences and academic publishers worry about intellectual integrity as more researchers use tools like ChatGPT

From experience of managing peer review journals, reviewers using AI to produce reviews is not surprising and neither is it a new threat to academia. The kinds of reviewers who will use AI to read and assess papers for them already submit poor quality and unusable reviews tinyurl.com/mr6kse27

The U.S. TikTok ban bill neatly summarized (via @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter)

Strongest U.S. Challenge to Big Tech’s Power Nears Climax in Google Trial The first tech monopoly trial of the modern internet era is concluding. The judge’s ruling is likely to set a precedent for other attempts to rein in the tech giants that hold sway over information, s...

Should the judge side with the EU in giving users the choice of their default search engine, it would be the obvious way to test Google's defense, that their product is indeed superior. But I can't help thinking that that would do little to nothing to change market share tinyurl.com/4735uzyc

Fascinating talk. I enjoyed @dwillner.bsky.social's problem of evil analogy. It reminds me of Frederick Douglass' note that his former fellow slaves weren't interested in freedom. They were concerned with whether their masters were good or bad. (Using Zuckerberg/slave master analogy at my own peril)

WIRED commonly do this sort of thing. Their interviews have a sort of meta (little M) quality to them. Personally, I think it often distracts – It's easy to finish reading an interview knowing an interviewer better than the interviewee. Is that the point of an interview?