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Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?
#FediTips #AI #generativeAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter
RE: neuromatch.social/@MolemanPete…
What really makes me wonder is the fact that many people are not even reading what the chatbot generates. It's not that AI is a tool used for brainstorming or improvement, but just a shortcut to cheat. I'm unsure whether the solution is to ban it completely or to better regulate its use in academia.
One thing that could certainly help is standardized rules among academic institutions, but right now we are seeing different policies here and there.
(... And I guess this is only the tip of the iceberg of the more general crisis affecting education)
#ethics #academia #education #generativeAI
I don’t use AI for anything in my academic or personal life. I value almost nothing more than my ability to think and to freely express myself. Even when I make mistakes, at least they are my mistakes.
huffpost.com/entry/history-pro…I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."Will Teague (HuffPost)
Part of the issue are the incentives. Science has to stop evaluating scientists by the number of publications. Never was a good idea and now even less.
Hi scientific Fedi!
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tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/prog…
There are 44 fellowship opportunities for 24 months in Toulouse (south of France) related to MSCA COFUND.
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#getFediHired #fediHired #academicJobs #academia #postdoc #postdocs #funding #MSCA #environmentalScience #sustainability #sustainabilityScience
"Together with visa application fees, scientists hoping to move to the U.K. face paying more than £20,000 up front for a family of four, 17 times more than in comparable countries, which makes it challenging to recruit talent."
Combined with abysmally low salaries and high costs of living, well, we are past "urgent action needed". Bring on desperate measures instead.
*Shadow scholars: inside #Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry*
WOW:
"...a 2018 paper estimated that 👉at least 1 in 7 graduates worldwide have used such services👈.
The UK, Irish + Australian governments, plus some US and Indian states, have taken steps to outlaw advertising by commercial ‘essay mills’.
But despite such moves, demand continues to grow. Kingori’s film explores the issue by going to the writers themselves..."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
Shadow scholars: inside Kenya’s multibillion-dollar fake-essay industry
Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.McKie, Anna
