Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

The idea that bad people having a voice on social media causes other people to become bad people (often the argument as to why we must defederate from bad servers) is equivalent to:

Thinking violent video games cause people to become violent.

Thinking explicit song lyrics cause people to become criminals

Allowing people to be openly homosexual will cause others to become homosexual

Banning books

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Ich weiss, ist schwierig. Aber vielleicht kennt jemand jemanden, die jemanden kennt...ihr wisst schon.

The tide had left a bottle on the shore. I thought I saw a rolled-up note inside.
When I pulled the cork out, a genie emerged.
"I am fulfilling a wish," he said. "I must. You don't have to watch."
"What?"
"This," the genie sighed, "is a strippogram."
I didn't watch. I wish I had.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

From 2023, W3C is its own legal entity (“W3C Inc”).
What's new, you ask? Well, it's a big change, as until this year, W3C wasn't a thing in itself. It existed in a “hosted model”, meaning (most recently) four universities “hosted” W3C, with staff being employed by/through those universities. Three of those universities (all except MIT) are still around, now as ”partner”.

https://www.w3.org/2023/01/pressrelease-w3c-le-launched.html.en

Haben wir unser Immun­system die letzten Jahre verhätschelt? Wurde es geschwächt durch Corona­virus und Masken­tragen? Ein paar Erklärungen, wie unsere Abwehr funktioniert.

https://www.republik.ch/2023/02/03/laesst-sich-das-immunsystem-trainieren

Ex-Apple-Chefdesigner Jony Ive zeigt der Welt die rote Nase

Nach Computer und Smartphone hat Jony Ive das Design der roten Clownsnase revolutioniert. Warum der frühere Apple-Chefdesigner jetzt Nasen gestaltet.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ex-Apple-Chefdesigner-Jony-Ive-zeigt-der-Welt-die-rote-Nase-7478707.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Apple #news

ChatGPT an Hochschulen: "Mit einer Plagiatssoftware werden wir ChatGPT nicht erkennen können" https://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-01/chatgpt-hochschule-lehre-pruefungen-betrug

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So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.

#whataweekhuh

"Instead of “playing” with #ChatGPT (cough, nota toy, cough) in your class you could play the Data, Privacy, and Identity game developed by Jeannie Crowley, Ed Saber, and Kenny Graves"

This is just one idea I've curated and published in "Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students" a new post on my personal blog

https://autumm.edtech.fm/2023/01/18/prior-to-or-instead-of-using-chatgpt-with-your-students/

#EdTech #FacDev #Privacy

OK, the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg wanted to simultaneously fill "6 Open Topic W3-Professuren im Themenfeld Digital Humanities and Digital Social Studies", application deadline was 2021-05-23. Sounded bold and ambitious, so especially disappointing to learn that the appointment process has been stopped for strategic-structural reasons.
Time it took to come to this decision: one-and-a-half years, so almost not slow for a German university :)
#ichBinHanna

And in case this post wasn't clear: I'm all-in on large language models: they confidently pass my personal test for if a piece of technology is worth learning:

"Does this let me build things that I could not have built without it?"

What I find interesting is that - on the surface - they look like they solve a lot more problems than they actually do, partly thanks to the confidence with which they present themselves

Figuring out what they're genuinely good for is a very interesting challenge

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#SechsUnmöglicheDinge

Eine künstliche Intelligenz, die schreibt – wird der Mensch als Au­to­r:in bald überflüssig sein? http://www.taz.de/!5909029/