Die durch Einsatz einer ausbeuterischen KI erstellten Bilder ERSETZEN gerade historischen Dokumente in der Öffentlichkeit, denn - Plottwist - auch wenn hier gegenteiliges behauptet wird, es gibt von Amelie Kretzer ein Foto. Nur sieht sie nicht aus, wie ein Tim Burton goes Pretty Little Liar Model!
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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Screenshot from the first page of the PDF showing the title, author names and abstract of the paper. Title: Between “Cancel Culture” and Campus Culture: Debate and Dissent in the Discursive Space of the University.
Based on a representative survey of academics at German universities, Christiane Thompson and I find little support for "canceling" controversial views on campus. Instead, universities are widely expected to facilitate debate on controversial issues. Our two main findings:
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Die Tatsache, dass sich ZEIT und (ausgerechnet) SZ wieder zur PR-Plattform einer Kampagne von Stefan Weber gemacht haben, ist wirklich atemberaubend.
Was hat eigentlich die Redaktion der #tagesthemen geritten, zu dem von Bundeswirtschaftsministererin #Reiche geplanten Stopp der Förderung privater Solaranlagen ausgerechnet Lion Hirth zu befragen?
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Without considering the sources of claims, efforts at epistemic vigilance become play-acting. With LLMs, we don't know the sources.
Excellent thread from @mjcrockett.bsky.social
I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause.
I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does.
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Epistemic vigilance is a concept developed by Sperber et al. describing how we guard against the possibility that other people might misinform us.
Two key points in this literature:
1. We need to scrutinize the content of messages
2. We need to scrutinize the source of messages
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Wide protected bike-lane in Downtown Vancouver filled with people on bikes.
It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people mentioning their surprise at discovering, after probing, how much their students resent AI in education—even if students feel obligated to use it. We really shouldn’t assume we know what they think.
Die antihumanen Aussagen von Sam Altman & anderen bestätigen die Diagnose, dass AI-Unternehmen imperiale, ja koloniale Strategien praktizieren (wollen) - so fasst es zB Karen Hao. Sie „beanspruchen für sich das Recht, eine Technologie zu gestalten, die alle Menschen auf dem Planeten betrifft“ … 1/2
“Academics engaging in pure science remain those thinkers who can take a distance from the social processed around them. They are not doing any time-restricted applied research for a government, a company, or any other organization. Relative to other researchers they are still given the time to take their time in order to think. Bourdieu, like Plato, sees this as something positive. The best social science is a social science that is free from urgent social problem-solving imperatives imposed on it by nonacademic economic, political, or even social forces.” From: Ghassan Hage. Political Economy of Being
Ghassan Hage, in his new book on #Bourdieu, advocating for an #academia in which scholars are still “given the time to take their time in order to think.” 💕
5 Landesverbände gesichert rechtsextrem, 4 Landesverbände Verdachtsfälle. Ehemalige Jugenorganisatiom gesichert rechtsextrem.
Bundespartei gesichert rechtsextrem.
Es ist noch zu früh, um sich ein Urteil zu bilden.
Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt verhindert Integration.
Es ist zynisch, dass die Union mangelnde Integration kritisiert, gleichzeitig den Menschen die Chancen dafür entzieht. Der Erwerb von Sprachkenntnissen ist Schlüssel zur Teilhabe am Arbeitsmarkt und zum Miteinander.
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Wer diesen Film wichtig findet, findet bestimmt auch diese Petition wichtig - unterstützt die doch bitte mit einem Klick:
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass die geplante Streichung der Lohnfortzahlung am ersten Krankheitstag sofort verworfen wird.
Nur noch sechs Tage!
An #AI tool called #Claude by a company called #Anthropic, trying to figure out whether it has a soul, a self … Claude Lévi-Strauss would laugh so hard, were he alive ...
#ContraAI 🤖
Deutsche Banken unterstützen die von Trump versuchte Illegalisierung des Antifaschismus. Anders kann ich mir das nicht erklären.
1/12 EU regulation is like kryptonite to our enemies🧵
„… users of an LLM do something both powerful and concerning: they engage with an alienated abstraction of their own thoughts.“
Ich glaube den Dichands und Mette Maritts dieser Welt, dass ihnen nichts komisch vorkam oder sie von nichts im Besonderen wussten. Epstein und das Drumherum sind einfach ganz normales Reiche Männer-Verhalten. Das ist so normalisiert in diesen Kreisen, dass es auch nicht mehr speziell auffällt.
Wie erschütternd bösartig diese Idee mit dem Streichen der Zahnleistungen. Wow. Die Gesundheit der Zähne gehört (wie Senkung der Kindersterblichkeit) zu den unbestreitbaren Fortschritten der Menschheit. (Habe grade nochmal Buddenbrooks gelesen u das Leiden mit den Zähnen 😱)
Zeitungsartikel schreiben: so gelingt der erste Artikel für den SPIEGEL mit KI-Unterstützung (ohne zu betrügen*)
((Bonus: ohne jede Ahnung** von den Inhalten und Zielen eines wissenschaftlichen Studiums geschrieben))
* außer die Leser
** Interesse
es ist immer der gleiche artikel, mit dem gleichen ressentiment geschrieben von leuten mit dem gleichen persönlichkeitstypus
Die aktuellen Debatten über eine Entkernung des Sozialstaates mitten in einer Phase wirtschaftlicher Schwäche, in der mehr Menschen noch stärker auf eben diesen angewiesen sein könnten - das darf man wohl Konjunkturprogramm für Extremismus nennen.
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
If anyone is interested in my views of postcolonial theory, the question of epistemological decolonisation and unversalism, I talked at length and in detail about them in Potsdam last November:
Outstanding article from my friend Lucyl Harrison in @theconversation.com today.
'Human character changed in December 2019, when SARS-CoV-2 was discovered and the COVID pandemic began in earnest'.
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One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
