Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

It helps me think about the "human-computer symbiosis" potential of large language models by forgetting "AI" and focusing instead on the extensions I use for my thinking & communicating, from the keyboard to the WWW. In aggregate, the enormous corpus of material that humans uploaded provides an incredibly rich stew of knowledge, nonsense, & bullshit.

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#ToolsForThought #ai

Well, that didn't take long. We're starting to see almost-believable autogenerated text being used so spam our issue tracker.

There's a legitimate chance that ChatGPT and their ilk are going to kill participatory open source. How can you keep any forums open to the public, when anyone can just pour an arbitrary amount of generated garbage into them?

How do you tell a smart but green contributor who's still learning the language from a thousand bots spewing averacitous trash?

A.I. Like ChatGPT Is Revealing the Insidious Disease at the Heart of Our Scientific Process
"vetting a scientific document takes a lot of thought and work, and the scientists who do it aren’t generally paid by the journals they’re doing all this labor for. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that often they—or the graduate students they dragoon into doing the work for them—don’t always do the best job of review. And as the number of publications..."
https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/ai-chatgpt-scientific-literature-peer-review.html

I don't post much on mastodon yet but here's a couple of CfP's for low res etc. #nlp to follow:

* [loresmt](https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/)
* [field matters](https://field-matters.github.io)

#Chatgpt

Really charming "topologists world map."

Forget size or position, this map *only* shows which countries border which other countries: http://tafc.space/qna/the-topologists-world-map/

Getty’s new complaint is much better than the overreaching class action lawsuit I wrote about last month. The focus is where it should be: the input stage ingestion of copyrighted images to train the data. This will be a fascinating fair use battle.

Getty also alleges that Stability AI removed or altered copyright management information and infringed Getty's trademarks by reproducing variations of its watermarks in output images.

BREAKING: Getty Images just filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Stability AI in Delaware District Court. Getty alleges that Stability copied more than 12 million Getty photos to train Stable Diffusion. Full complaint here: https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/

Guten Morgen!

Vom 07. bis zum 09.11.2023 findet an der Fachhochschule Graubünden in Chur (Schweiz) das 17. Internationale Symposium für #Informationswissenschaft (#ISI2023) mit dem Titel „Nachhaltige #Information - Information für #Nachhaltigkeit“ statt. Der #CfP findet sich unter: http://isi2023.informationswissenschaft.org/en/call-for-papers/. Beiträge können ab dem 01.05.2023 über „EasyChair“ eingereicht werden.

Swinging into the weekend with the great Jutta Hipp. Alas, her "career" as a jazzer was short-lived (Leonard Feather - no matter his merits - was a pretty toxic dude in today's terminology, it seems).

https://youtu.be/QUBHWJK02yA

@jazz

#JazzBirthdays #JuttaHipp #MusicAgainstMadness

Who here remembers these two?

True story.

Was mich in Sachen #ChatGPT langsam wirklich besorgt: Kaum jemand scheint wirklich zu verstehen, dass es sich um einen ChatBot handelt, der die Wahrscheinlichkeit berechnet, nach der Wort B nach Wort A kommt. Es ist kein Lexikon, es hat kein inhärentes Wissen, es ist "nur" darauf trainiert, sich möglichst natürlich zu unterhalten. Aber vor allem Medien erzählen das Märchen einer Wissensmaschine, die alle Fragen beantworten kann. Nein. ChatGPT erfindet Fakten & Quellen, wenn es nicht weiter weiß.

The current hype and anxiety about language bots is just one example of how "AI" and automation are affecting education. We just published a bumper themed issue of Learning, Media and Technology on AI, automation and datafication of education - editorial here https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2167830 and a thread on all the papers over there https://twitter.com/LMT_Journal/status/1621529716615430146?s=20&t=DfzTbXS6V_GdddS5j218ig

Another opportunity for Learned Societies who berate APCs...

The MIT Press announces new initiative to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model
https://mitpress.mit.edu/the-mit-press-announces-new-initiative-to-flip-existing-subscription-based-journals-to-a-diamond-open-access-publishing-model/

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

Geographie.

#IATE comprises about 7.5 million terms, with EU linguists continuously consolidating and enriching it. In 2022, they undertook 2.7 million operations, enhancing the quality of the entries and expanding language availability.
#EUAgencies #EUTerminology #Multilingualism