Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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💻 **Why DO large language models hallucinate?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-large-language-models-hallucinate.
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Another completely made up "Authoritative Source" by #ChatGPT. Actually, the source exists, it just doesn't contain these words.
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A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/books/stephen-miller-camp-saints.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E08.d7_g.fR61dVrD-v9N&smid=bs-share
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Of chatbots & self delusions
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful, delusional thinking in quite normal people.”
H/t Spencer LaVere Smith @sls for sharing
https://labrigger.com/blog/2025/04/15/eliza-exe/
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New review published -- Perry on Fleetwood, 'Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya' https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61218 Reviewer: Amanda PerryTitle: Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the HimalayaAuthor: Lachlan Fleetwood
🇫🇮 📵 **Finland Just Banned Smartphones in Schools**
“_Do you agree with this approach?_”
>Yes, I do.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/finland-just-banned-smartphones-in-schools/.
#News #Finland #Scandinavia #Smartphones #Technology #Tech #Education #Schools #Psychology @psychology
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The LLMentalist effect: Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms used by (fake) psychics to gull their victims: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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General call out
If you're a writer/author of any stripe who's been negatively tangibly affected by AI content in some way, and are willing to share this information, please do reach out and let me know. It's for an important thing.
Email me via my site
www.deanburnett.com/contact/
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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output
Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist’s Cyclical Vision of Life and Art
https://lithub.com/how-charles-dickenss-troubled-childhood-influenced-his-literary-output/
Charles Dickens at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37
🇺🇸 📖 **Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter**
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #KKK #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 📚 **A Fifth of American Adults Can’t Read. Here’s How to Teach Them.**
🔗 https://www.thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of-american-adults-cant-read-i-teach-them.
**Vikings on the Silk Roads**
Neil Price
“_The viking presence in Europe is well known, extending east to Constantinople and the rivers of western Russia and Ukraine, alongside the settlement of the North Atlantic islands and ultimately a landfall on the coast of Newfoundland. But a key question remains: how far did that diaspora extend, especially to the south and east? How far did the vikings really travel?_”
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/the-viking-age-is-undergoing-a-revisionist-transformation.
#Vikings #Essay #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
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The impact of a rise in #tariff rates has had a substantial shift in both
#growth and #inflation expectations, chart @GoldmanSachs
**'Dumpster fire': Retailers urge shoppers to buy now before tariffs raise prices**
_“Let's skip the corporate-speak: This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit,”_
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If you want to understand the psychological harm LLMs can do to someone, you have to read conspiracy theory forums. This pattern of the LLM spiraling with you into a private universe of meaning is the overwhelming norm
💻 Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/.
#Duolingo #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech @ai
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"Repeat after me: tariffs are beautiful." BL Stowe 17; 'The Maastricht Hours'; 14th century; f.84r
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The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.
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I'm not anti-AI. I'm just pro-thinking.
What do I mean? I mean that everyone I know who is REALLY into AI uses it for reading EVERYTHING longer than 1000 words.
This is the mental equivalent of eating only smoothies, because they go down easier.
I say this with love: reading is thinking.
Stop letting slop think for you.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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