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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

@danielatafani@poliversity.it

A quite reasonable policy that concretely means "don't use #LLM".

My only objection is to this sentence:

Since AI tools cannot take responsibility

Sure, it would be dumb to attribute responsibility to a software.

BUT it's totally reasonable to held accountable for its output those who run it and sell its output as a service.

Whatever #OpenAI's websites display to users, it is Open AI's choice to display it, so it's their own responsibility, be it output of a LLM or #SamAltman own writing.

We can and should held these companies legally accountable. Talking of #AI (obviouslack of) responsibility is misleading and only serves the interests of these companies.

So a better wording would heve been

Since AI companies pretend to be above the Law and don't want to be held accountable for anything...

@pluralistic@mamot.fr @mcp@poliversity.it @Iris@scholar.social @olivia@scholar.social

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

Ethics’ AI Policy for Editors, Reviewers, and Contributors:
"attributing some example or objection to ChatGPT could be just as problematic as attributing an objection to your colleague when all they did was tell you about some objection that Rawls raised"
@pluralistic @mcp @giacomo @Iris @olivia

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/et/ai-policy

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

Our resources page has been updated with Tega Brain Studio's Slop Evader Chrome/Firefox web browser extension for avoiding Gen AI search results. Thank you, Emmi!

And our previous update featured @olivia Critical AI.
https://olivia.science/ai

https://stopgenai.com/related-links-and-resources/

Stop Gen AI group member Emmi Einstein pointed out this awesome set of web browser extensions to me. It’s Slop Evader.

“This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.”

The extensions are for the desktop versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It’s created and maintained by Tega Brain Studio.

Check it out: https://tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

Olivia Guest is a computational scientist who is leading the fight against Gen AI, especially in academia.

Most of her research on the various psychological, social, and academic harms of Gen AI is on her Critical AI website.

Check it out: https://olivia.science/ai

@colm @danmcquillan 🫡 no problem, thanks

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site.
https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html

A screenshot of the blog post at https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html

@colm @danmcquillan ooh thanks, if you get a moment please send me the raw text to update it on my website ☺️

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

With the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU), we've just published a Statement on AI in Higher Education.

https://climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/statements/statement-on-AI/

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

This is accompanied by a small but growing list of resources, obviously including the works of @danmcquillan and @olivia, among others.
https://climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/resources/resisting-ai/

A black and white diagram (sort of mind map) that aims to visualise some of the key topics under the heading 'Critical AI Literacy for GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education'.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

Some of my colleagues working in Germany will be interested in signing this open letter: https://openletter.earth/gegen-die-unkritische-anwendung-und-implementierung-sog-kunstlicher-intelligenz-ki-in-der-deutschen-wissenschaft-und-im-hochschulalltag-3094a789

It's a German translation of the English letter that originated in the Netherlands under the leadership of @olivia which beyond the original signatories gathered >1500 signatures from within NL and around the world

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

HT @berzhu

#AISucks #NoNukesForAI #AI #Enshittification #Environment
#ClimateChange #AIBubble #Capitalism #Datacenters #Crapitalism

Futuristic illustration including a golden skin couple with glowing eyes.

"We just saved 20% our power bill by burning down the data center."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

ART/ESCHER01.GIF

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

@sin_culillo también está el trabajo de @olivia contra la adopción acrítica de la IA....

Aquí un resumen del principio de ese artículo:

https://col.social/@gabriel/115169151840685839

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

@small_cypress actually, art teachers in Germany are teachers first. They have studied art as primary or secondary subject. (Art was not my favorite subject, I have bad artistic skills :) So, I don't need to explain your job to you.
btw, you can follow @olivia This is mainly about academia https://olivia.science/ai

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

✨ This is wonderful 🎬 🍿

Librebel on Youtube reads out our position paper:

@olivia Guest, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJNO2BTGSNQ

#Critical_AI_Literacy

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

My presentation on "AI and the destruction of knowledge" is available on Zenodo. At the 10th AISA Annual Conference, we discussed the overall picture that emerges from the work of
@Iris @olivia @abebab @pluralistic @randomwalker
https://zenodo.org/records/17545448

@Steve_Lindsay @Iris probably this is what they are trying here effectively even if not intentionally (who knows), but I would suspect intent too if they are receiving funding

@Steve_Lindsay @Iris

“Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. Critical reflection cannot be reduced to a mere ‘check box’ before unleashing AI technologies in our daily life[.] Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm." Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15677839

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

Interested to learn what @Iris and @olivia think of updated AI policies for Canada's main national newspaper, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/standards-editor/article-the-globe-has-updated-its-newsroom-ai-guidelines/

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

@Iris @olivia Great article--thank.you. And as if to demonstrate the dumbness of the algorithm...

Below the article "HAND picked" to read next: "Universities in the Age of AI: Andrew Wachtel explains how higher education must evolve to prepare students for the workplace of the future"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ boosted:

@Iris @olivia 👏👏👏 ‘In response, the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market. What is actually needed is the opposite: scholars with expertise in AI-related fields must have the freedom to critique these technologies, while those in other fields must be able to teach without interference by companies seeking to cash in.’

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