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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 2d

Every paragraph gets its own little subheading now. I guess that's one way around making sure that your paragraphs flow easily into each other. Can't make a transition? Just make a subheading like its a listicle!

Thanks, Chat!

Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 2d

Just grading student papers on a Sunday afternoon, like you do, and lamenting that AI has made it so that more and more of these essays use copious subheadings even if the student didn't use AI to write the piece (entirely possible that they used it to make an outline, I guess.)

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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 4d

It’s like a Douglas Adams story. Billions of dollars spent on a machine that consumes incredible resources. Earth has blown past 4C. Fresh water is gone. But at last it’s done. The makers ask, “How do we solve climate change?” The machine whirs and responds, “You can switch to solar 100 years ago.”

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

AI can help the environment, even though it uses tremendous energy. Here are 5 ways how

Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8d

I have yeeted
the LMS
my uni
has paid for
and which
you were probably
thinking
helps you teach
Forgive me
it was surveillant
so mid
and so broke

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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 9d

“Oh, look, a new Lisa O’Neill song!” I said to myself not realizing I’d be sobbing in my car in a parking lot.

Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill

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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 9d

God, I feel this direct to the bottom of my desiccated soul.

Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 9d

at least he’s not upset about it.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 10d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12d

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · 28d

"US Comedians gonna say,
I, I, I....
will probably play Sun City
if they pay me enough."

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

www.theguardian.com

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Jeffrey Amos @jeffreyamos.bsky.social · Sep 20

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 18

I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not.

Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea.

Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Sep 17

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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