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cbecker , 1 month ago to academicchatter

Today in “GenAI is spam”:

“While publishers are fighting back with technology, paper mills are using the same kind of tools to stay ahead.

“Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.” @academicchatter

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

cbecker , 1 month ago to academicchatter

How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests:
@academicchatter

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/24/university-fossil-fuel-divestment-student-protests-israel-gaza

cbecker , 2 months ago to academicchatter

TU Delft is hiring an assistant professor in community-level design for climate Action:
https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=17165
@academicchatter #ClimateAction

cbecker , 2 months ago to academicchatter

“one of the most frustrating kinds of AI hype is when people who are actually in a position to use their own expertise to push back instead give in to the FOMO and do the hype for tech companies. Today's case in point is a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education”

@emilymbender 🎯 on #AI #hype @academicchatter

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/doing-their-hype-for-them/

cbecker , 2 months ago to academicchatter

This is how you can organize a covid-safe event. Hint: it's neither very expensive nor very difficult.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ed-yong-public-lecture-on-long-covid-tickets-849000241577 with the great @edyong209 - virtual option too.

#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid @academicchatter

cbecker , 2 months ago to academicchatter

It is easy to joke that once #AI generated grant proposals 💩citing AI generated papers 💩are “reviewed” by AI, the system implodes and academics will come to their senses.

But the truth is, that system won’t implode in its own. It doesn’t need quality or substance to keep running. To these 💩 systems, the collapse of intellectual substance is an economic externality, just as pollution has been an externality for industry for too long.

See https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183 on peer review
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cbecker , 6 months ago to academicchatter

FWIW, here's my draft policy on bullshit generators like #ChatGPT in my classes. Any thoughts?

Stochastic Parrots 🦜
It isn't my style to forbid you from using technology in your learning, but if at any point you consider using generative tools, please pause for a moment.
Remember that these tools do not possess any meaningful form of intelligence. They are statistical generators of likely word sequence, not writers of meaningful content. 1/2

#teaching #generativeAI #LLM
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cbecker , 8 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to academicchatter

#job alert! The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time, tenure stream position in User Experience Design (#UXD) or Human-Computer Interaction (#HCI). Relevant areas include #sustainability #sustainableHCI #ICT4S @academicchatter https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-User-Experience-DesignHuman-Computer-Interaction-ON/574066717/ #CSCW2023

cbecker , 8 months ago to academicchatter

So, one of my favourite #conferences is happening in two weeks. The program looks fantastic. There is also an #accessibility FAQ page. Nice!

Except... does the page mention #covid? No. Maybe the "hybrid experience" page mentions #covid19? No. Nothing on any 'attend' page mentions anything pandemic. You can assure yourself that the venue is non-smoking, but the word "mask" is absent. 🤷‍♂️ This is what collective denial looks like.
Do better.
#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @academicchatter

cbecker , 8 months ago to academicchatter

The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto offers fully funded PhD student positions to study with me 🙋‍♂️ on themes in #HCI, IT for #sustainability, #CivicTech, #CSCW, Computing within Limits, #ethical & responsible tech, & sustainable software engineering. Apply by Dec. 1: https://ischool.utoronto.ca/areas-of-study/phd-in-information-studies/ (PDF: http://www.christoph-becker.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Recruitment-One-Pager-PhD-ChristophBecker.pdf)
#PhD @academicchatter @seresearchers