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Thank you so much for this super insighful essay! Frightening in many ways, but it also gives me hope, since it at least lets me understand how it happens that madness gets a grip on an organisation.
Very wise words at the end about how to survive in an institution caught by the mania.
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Thank you so much for this super insighful essay! Frightening in many ways, but it also gives me hope, since it at least lets me understand how it happens that madness gets a grip on an organisation.
Very wise words at the end about how to survive in an institution caught by the mania.
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Thank you so much for this super insighful essay! Frightening in many ways, but it also gives me hope, since it at least lets me understand how it happens that madness gets a grip on an organisation.
Very wise words at the end about how to survive in an institution caught by the mania.
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Thank you so much for this super insighful essay! Frightening in many ways, but it also gives me hope, since it at least lets me understand how it happens that madness gets a grip on an organisation.
Very wise words at the end about how to survive in an institution caught by the mania.
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Thank you so much for this super insighful essay! Frightening in many ways, but it also gives me hope, since it at least lets me understand how it happens that madness gets a grip on an organisation.
Very wise words at the end about how to survive in an institution caught by the mania.
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<< What started as a few people [...] being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed [...]. This means that the least sensible recommendations are going totally unchallenged, resulting in employees being evaluated on totally gameable metrics such as “money spent on AI”, and those employees must play along to avoid being terminated. >>
Thank you for the link! An exceptiomally insightful, if frightening, report by @ludicity on the mechanisms through which AI mania spreads.
In my own work in a university context, I see glimpses of the same mechanisms, thankfully a little less extreme. We haven't reached the token-count yet, nor the firing-the-sceptic stage, but no doubt those will come to us too. We certainly have otherwise sensible colleagues ruthlessly pushing "AI innovations" because it buys them promotion.
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<< What started as a few people [...] being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed [...]. This means that the least sensible recommendations are going totally unchallenged, resulting in employees being evaluated on totally gameable metrics such as “money spent on AI”, and those employees must play along to avoid being terminated. >>
Thank you for the link! An exceptiomally insightful, if frightening, report by @ludicity on the mechanisms through which AI mania spreads.
In my own work in a university context, I see glimpses of the same mechanisms, thankfully a little less extreme. We haven't reached the token-count yet, nor the firing-the-sceptic stage, but no doubt those will come to us too. We certainly have otherwise sensible colleagues ruthlessly pushing "AI innovations" because it buys them promotion.
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<< What started as a few people [...] being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed [...]. This means that the least sensible recommendations are going totally unchallenged, resulting in employees being evaluated on totally gameable metrics such as “money spent on AI”, and those employees must play along to avoid being terminated. >>
Thank you for the link! An exceptiomally insightful, if frightening, report by @ludicity on the mechanisms through which AI mania spreads.
In my own work in a university context, I see glimpses of the same mechanisms, thankfully a little less extreme. We haven't reached the token-count yet, nor the firing-the-sceptic stage, but no doubt those will come to us too. We certainly have otherwise sensible colleagues ruthlessly pushing "AI innovations" because it buys them promotion.
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<< What started as a few people [...] being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed [...]. This means that the least sensible recommendations are going totally unchallenged, resulting in employees being evaluated on totally gameable metrics such as “money spent on AI”, and those employees must play along to avoid being terminated. >>
Thank you for the link! An exceptiomally insightful, if frightening, report by @ludicity on the mechanisms through which AI mania spreads.
In my own work in a university context, I see glimpses of the same mechanisms, thankfully a little less extreme. We haven't reached the token-count yet, nor the firing-the-sceptic stage, but no doubt those will come to us too. We certainly have otherwise sensible colleagues ruthlessly pushing "AI innovations" because it buys them promotion.
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<< What started as a few people [...] being caught up in hype has now resulted in an environment where leaders cannot speak honestly about their beliefs on how best to guide organisations, for fear of being removed [...]. This means that the least sensible recommendations are going totally unchallenged, resulting in employees being evaluated on totally gameable metrics such as “money spent on AI”, and those employees must play along to avoid being terminated. >>
Thank you for the link! An exceptiomally insightful, if frightening, report by @ludicity on the mechanisms through which AI mania spreads.
In my own work in a university context, I see glimpses of the same mechanisms, thankfully a little less extreme. We haven't reached the token-count yet, nor the firing-the-sceptic stage, but no doubt those will come to us too. We certainly have otherwise sensible colleagues ruthlessly pushing "AI innovations" because it buys them promotion.
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《 Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. 》
Oh, lovely. This example shows us in archetypical form the original sin of genAI, doesn't it. Brute force being used to hide the absence of substantive alignment. Highly instructive (and entertaining), as is your entire thread.
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《 Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. 》
Oh, lovely. This example shows us in archetypical form the original sin of genAI, doesn't it. Brute force being used to hide the absence of substantive alignment. Highly instructive (and entertaining), as is your entire thread.
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《 Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. 》
Oh, lovely. This example shows us in archetypical form the original sin of genAI, doesn't it. Brute force being used to hide the absence of substantive alignment. Highly instructive (and entertaining), as is your entire thread.
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《 Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. 》
Oh, lovely. This example shows us in archetypical form the original sin of genAI, doesn't it. Brute force being used to hide the absence of substantive alignment. Highly instructive (and entertaining), as is your entire thread.
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《 Fable in particular is known to have baffling gibberish intermediate messages, and in general if any of the intermediate "thinking" text was visible it would make it abundantly clear that the only reason these things appear to work is by sheer brute force, just keep generating text until something seems plausible. 》
Oh, lovely. This example shows us in archetypical form the original sin of genAI, doesn't it. Brute force being used to hide the absence of substantive alignment. Highly instructive (and entertaining), as is your entire thread.
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You can see the empty eyes, Lestrade. The self-satisfied smile. This man is no murderer, Inspector. He is an AI victim.
Holmes's voice revealed something akin to pity for the man in custody.
It is plain that our man here has lost all capacity to plan anything as complex as an actual murder of a physical human being. Notice his hand, still grasping the ergonomic mouse even though you have taken away his laptop. Too much ego boosting from the Affirmation Machine has closed him in on himself. If you check his laptop, you will find an open Claude session, not a floor plan of the victim's apartment.
Your murderer is still out and about, Lestrade. What the man before us needs is rest and an Affirmation detox.
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You can see the empty eyes, Lestrade. The self-satisfied smile. This man is no murderer, Inspector. He is an AI victim.
Holmes's voice revealed something akin to pity for the man in custody.
It is plain that our man here has lost all capacity to plan anything as complex as an actual murder of a physical human being. Notice his hand, still grasping the ergonomic mouse even though you have taken away his laptop. Too much ego boosting from the Affirmation Machine has closed him in on himself. If you check his laptop, you will find an open Claude session, not a floor plan of the victim's apartment.
Your murderer is still out and about, Lestrade. What the man before us needs is rest and an Affirmation detox.
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You can see the empty eyes, Lestrade. The self-satisfied smile. This man is no murderer, Inspector. He is an AI victim.
Holmes's voice revealed something akin to pity for the man in custody.
It is plain that our man here has lost all capacity to plan anything as complex as an actual murder of a physical human being. Notice his hand, still grasping the ergonomic mouse even though you have taken away his laptop. Too much ego boosting from the Affirmation Machine has closed him in on himself. If you check his laptop, you will find an open Claude session, not a floor plan of the victim's apartment.
Your murderer is still out and about, Lestrade. What the man before us needs is rest and an Affirmation detox.
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You can see the empty eyes, Lestrade. The self-satisfied smile. This man is no murderer, Inspector. He is an AI victim.
Holmes's voice revealed something akin to pity for the man in custody.
It is plain that our man here has lost all capacity to plan anything as complex as an actual murder of a physical human being. Notice his hand, still grasping the ergonomic mouse even though you have taken away his laptop. Too much ego boosting from the Affirmation Machine has closed him in on himself. If you check his laptop, you will find an open Claude session, not a floor plan of the victim's apartment.
Your murderer is still out and about, Lestrade. What the man before us needs is rest and an Affirmation detox.
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You can see the empty eyes, Lestrade. The self-satisfied smile. This man is no murderer, Inspector. He is an AI victim.
Holmes's voice revealed something akin to pity for the man in custody.
It is plain that our man here has lost all capacity to plan anything as complex as an actual murder of a physical human being. Notice his hand, still grasping the ergonomic mouse even though you have taken away his laptop. Too much ego boosting from the Affirmation Machine has closed him in on himself. If you check his laptop, you will find an open Claude session, not a floor plan of the victim's apartment.
Your murderer is still out and about, Lestrade. What the man before us needs is rest and an Affirmation detox.
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Quite incredible.
OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.
Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?
(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)
#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Quite incredible.
OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.
Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?
(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)
#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Quite incredible.
OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.
Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?
(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)
#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Quite incredible.
OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.
Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?
(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)
#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Quite incredible.
OUP World Classics brings out a new translation of Proust's La Prisonnière, and it turns out that the translator (Andrew Rothwell) assembled his copy from fragments provided to him by a genAI tool. And he couldn'd even be bothered to tell the editor about it! The Way We Live Now.
Painfully strong Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibes. Who hasn't been turned around yet?
(Thank you for the link to the LitHub essay. An excellent piece of writing and nuanced reflection by Bryan Charles.)
#Proust #BryanCharles #AndrewRothwell #translation #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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A fine essay. Speaking as a university teacher, and as a writer in a research and teaching context: I experience the same pain when people don't see the uniqueness of the human source of true writing and true teaching. And like you I believe that true creative human work (in writing, in teaching) will survive. If need be in new formats and new channels.
Martin Buber studied the true dialogue that happens between my "I" and your "Thou", and he contrasted it with the unlistening talking that happend when both sides treat the other as an "It". Today's genAI proponents are glad to abolish both I and Thou: a vision of a society where the "It" of one person's genAI talks to the "It" of another person's genAI.
#StopTheAICorruption #IAndThou #writing #teaching #creativity
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100%, and beautifully written. Precise and poetic, the underlying anger transformed into a positive vision that emphasises creative human agency. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing.
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100%, and beautifully written. Precise and poetic, the underlying anger transformed into a positive vision that emphasises creative human agency. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing.
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100%, and beautifully written. Precise and poetic, the underlying anger transformed into a positive vision that emphasises creative human agency. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing.
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100%, and beautifully written. Precise and poetic, the underlying anger transformed into a positive vision that emphasises creative human agency. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing.
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100%, and beautifully written. Precise and poetic, the underlying anger transformed into a positive vision that emphasises creative human agency. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing.
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Brilliant. Recognising the inherent difficulties in actual programming, and offering a bridge that utilises the natural-language capabilities of the user for transparent conversion. Enabling conversion that gives agency to the user, vs disabling transfer of agency to the LLM.
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Brilliant. Recognising the inherent difficulties in actual programming, and offering a bridge that utilises the natural-language capabilities of the user for transparent conversion. Enabling conversion that gives agency to the user, vs disabling transfer of agency to the LLM.
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Brilliant. Recognising the inherent difficulties in actual programming, and offering a bridge that utilises the natural-language capabilities of the user for transparent conversion. Enabling conversion that gives agency to the user, vs disabling transfer of agency to the LLM.
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Brilliant. Recognising the inherent difficulties in actual programming, and offering a bridge that utilises the natural-language capabilities of the user for transparent conversion. Enabling conversion that gives agency to the user, vs disabling transfer of agency to the LLM.
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Brilliant. Recognising the inherent difficulties in actual programming, and offering a bridge that utilises the natural-language capabilities of the user for transparent conversion. Enabling conversion that gives agency to the user, vs disabling transfer of agency to the LLM.
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Love your article. In the precise dynamics, there may be slight differences between US and UK institutions. In my UK university, the pressure to go all AI comes from senior management, but also from academic colleagues, and this collusion has been something of a shock to me.
I completely agree with your point on marking:
'Bad writing gets bad grades no matter who or what wrote it. It seems ridiculous to waste time using unreliable AI detection software when I can justifiably grade what’s in front of me with the same result."
And, underlying this:
"[genAI] can’t carry an argument from the beginning of an essay to the end, because it can’t think." Indeed!
I've been around for long enough to have lived through most of the previous hypes you mention, and your historical perspective has given me a bit of moral encouragement to keep up the resistance.
@harmonygritz @kate @cogdog @Downes @bryanalexandee -
Love your article. In the precise dynamics, there may be slight differences between US and UK institutions. In my UK university, the pressure to go all AI comes from senior management, but also from academic colleagues, and this collusion has been something of a shock to me.
I completely agree with your point on marking:
'Bad writing gets bad grades no matter who or what wrote it. It seems ridiculous to waste time using unreliable AI detection software when I can justifiably grade what’s in front of me with the same result."
And, underlying this:
"[genAI] can’t carry an argument from the beginning of an essay to the end, because it can’t think." Indeed!
I've been around for long enough to have lived through most of the previous hypes you mention, and your historical perspective has given me a bit of moral encouragement to keep up the resistance.
@harmonygritz @kate @cogdog @Downes @bryanalexandee -
Love your article. In the precise dynamics, there may be slight differences between US and UK institutions. In my UK university, the pressure to go all AI comes from senior management, but also from academic colleagues, and this collusion has been something of a shock to me.
I completely agree with your point on marking:
'Bad writing gets bad grades no matter who or what wrote it. It seems ridiculous to waste time using unreliable AI detection software when I can justifiably grade what’s in front of me with the same result."
And, underlying this:
"[genAI] can’t carry an argument from the beginning of an essay to the end, because it can’t think." Indeed!
I've been around for long enough to have lived through most of the previous hypes you mention, and your historical perspective has given me a bit of moral encouragement to keep up the resistance.
@harmonygritz @kate @cogdog @Downes @bryanalexandee -
Love your article. In the precise dynamics, there may be slight differences between US and UK institutions. In my UK university, the pressure to go all AI comes from senior management, but also from academic colleagues, and this collusion has been something of a shock to me.
I completely agree with your point on marking:
'Bad writing gets bad grades no matter who or what wrote it. It seems ridiculous to waste time using unreliable AI detection software when I can justifiably grade what’s in front of me with the same result."
And, underlying this:
"[genAI] can’t carry an argument from the beginning of an essay to the end, because it can’t think." Indeed!
I've been around for long enough to have lived through most of the previous hypes you mention, and your historical perspective has given me a bit of moral encouragement to keep up the resistance.
@harmonygritz @kate @cogdog @Downes @bryanalexandee -
Love your article. In the precise dynamics, there may be slight differences between US and UK institutions. In my UK university, the pressure to go all AI comes from senior management, but also from academic colleagues, and this collusion has been something of a shock to me.
I completely agree with your point on marking:
'Bad writing gets bad grades no matter who or what wrote it. It seems ridiculous to waste time using unreliable AI detection software when I can justifiably grade what’s in front of me with the same result."
And, underlying this:
"[genAI] can’t carry an argument from the beginning of an essay to the end, because it can’t think." Indeed!
I've been around for long enough to have lived through most of the previous hypes you mention, and your historical perspective has given me a bit of moral encouragement to keep up the resistance.
@harmonygritz @kate @cogdog @Downes @bryanalexandee