University Suspends Students for AI Homework Tool It Gave Them $10,000 Prize to Make
Emory University gave students a $10,000 entrepreneurial prize for their AI startup, then suspended them and accused them of cheating when they built it.
The unfolding tragedy of the deconstruction of university learning and teaching. Behold, a post in r/professors about the chatgpt wasteland of student submitted work.
Damning report on @BBCRadio4 this morning about the financial situation of UK universities. As Id been told by others involved in UK digital policy, the general attitude is to digitise almost any aspect of UK HE that can be automated, and employ #AI tools to achieve this. To me this is almost a death knell of UK HE standards. No one attends university to learn with a bot, least of all to pay high fees for the pleasure. #bbc#highered#academicchatter
If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.
When we teach WW1 history and show photographs of men in the trenches, and no one knows if they are real or midjourney fake then we are in deep trouble. Or teach scientific principles through research papers and don't know if the text is authentic human created or response engine output, we are in deep trouble. Imagine a hundred other contexts and you understand why gen ai is such a massive problem.
@DrPen Human autentication #protocols are going to be very necessary very soon.
But the problem is, people won’t start to want them until it’s already too late. And when that happens they’ll be ready to sacrifice their privacy for convenience.
When privacy is gone, we’ll be at a risk of losing democracy as well.
At risk of blowing my own trumpet, here's my work on the uni repo. Missing one paper, but otherwise a complete record of published work (so far!). Id encourage everyone to put their accepted papers on their Inst. repo, it increases visibility and is usually permitted in author license agreements.
ps I know its not a great number, but Im a late starter at this ;)
Patterns have featured an opinion piece in their email re Mastodon for research, particularly focused on gathering data and the non equivalency of direct swap comparison between Twitter and Mastodon/Fediverse ethics and privacy. Its a useful read imho. It's open access.
Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory. A preprint on SocArxiv of my paper (Trevor Norris co author) on how the Fediverse could help to create instances of urban civic memory archives using place-name/geocoded posts and instance cache archiving. technically a laymans view (me!), but feedback on technical or other aspects gratefully received :)
Do people know about the Zotero group, the 'Fediverse Observatory'? Its a long list of relevant information and sources that mention Fediverse related stuff. Check it out.
Well hey. I didn't expect my post about Aaron Swartz to get so popular but it's so good to see how many ppl are touched and angry and emotional about what happened. How much we care and what ppl do to share his life and what he stood for.
We must modernise copyright law and deal with digital content in more realistic and fair ways. I mean, we are at the #AI watershed. That's a whole other ballpark. Check this paper out.
@Jigsaw_You this is what new legislation is partly attempting to deal with (eg EU AI act). Transparency of process is obv really significant, but we need to understand what is being discussed. The Lee et al. paper really helps to understand for us who are not data scientists.
@Jigsaw_You When I referred to transparency legislation I wasnt referring to the AI copyright pdf. This is how copyright law applies to different stages of the AI LLM supply chain (in USA). Its not 'research' as such, its an explainer of how it appears to work from a legal perspective. Transparency of LLM/ML techniques is attempting to be dealt with by territorial legislation policy, for example in the EU AI Act.
Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for.
yes yes yes. Ive been saying this for at least a year or more and am writing about this again in my current paper. Im 100% behind this. My new theme is promoting the idea of civic learning networks that are based on decentralised federated instance models that also integrate with the open social web.