Jon Ippolito
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How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
Where in the real world has this been played out?
February 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Where in the real world has this been played out?
Normally I'd say you couldn't tell, but given OpenClaw's lack of security that might just be possible.
February 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Normally I'd say you couldn't tell, but given OpenClaw's lack of security that might just be possible.
It certainly possible that a human directed the bot, either by writing the post manually or just adding a tendentious system prompt. But the blog entry is classic chatbot-speak and feels like legit AI
February 13, 2026 at 4:14 PM
It certainly possible that a human directed the bot, either by writing the post manually or just adding a tendentious system prompt. But the blog entry is classic chatbot-speak and feels like legit AI
Some speculate that this behavior could have been encoded into the bot's system prompt. But AI-augmented trolls are not what I was looking forward to in 2026 ☹️
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Some speculate that this behavior could have been encoded into the bot's system prompt. But AI-augmented trolls are not what I was looking forward to in 2026 ☹️
Facts! Games provide ritual humiliation, and we keep coming back for more.
February 13, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Facts! Games provide ritual humiliation, and we keep coming back for more.
A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do?
Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real… | Jo...
A rogue AI agent infiltrates your online class. What do you do?
Inspired by Marc Watkins’ provocative AI scenarios for educators, I’ve imagined a troubling situation of my own drawn from a real case....
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February 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM
A rogue AI enrolls in your online class, then publicly shames you when you remove it. This just happened in a dev forum. Are we ready if it happens to our courses? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI. DM me with any questions or visit learnwithai.org/courses.html
February 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM
On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI. DM me with any questions or visit learnwithai.org/courses.html
I know, right? A little squished, but better than nothing
January 29, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I know, right? A little squished, but better than nothing
I've been worried AI will crowd out human voices. Now an AI copy has replaced my 2006 Connected Knowledge site, warping context and displacing the original work online. Are we going to be able to stop this creeping ensloppification? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
After spending a year warning that AI could replace our human web with a synthetic double, I became the victim of my own prediction. I’ve been ensloppified.
Last night I stumbled upon a site I built…...
After spending a year warning that AI could replace our human web with a synthetic double, I became the victim of my own prediction. I’ve been ensloppified.
Last night I stumbled upon a site I built ...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I've been worried AI will crowd out human voices. Now an AI copy has replaced my 2006 Connected Knowledge site, warping context and displacing the original work online. Are we going to be able to stop this creeping ensloppification? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
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Agenda from an upcoming faculty meeting, which I'm choosing to interpret as a Fluxus score:
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Agenda from an upcoming faculty meeting, which I'm choosing to interpret as a Fluxus score:
Where are AI’s scientific breakthroughs? It’s been three years since ChatGPT’s release, and still no headlines about AI discovering new particles or curing diseases. When AI does help science, it's not the kind Sam Altman and co. are shilling. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Where are AI’s scientific breakthroughs? It’s been three years since ChatGPT’s release, and still no headlines about AI discovering new particles or curing diseases.
The issue is becoming harder to… ...
Where are AI’s scientific breakthroughs? It’s been three years since ChatGPT’s release, and still no headlines about AI discovering new particles or curing diseases.
The issue is becoming harder to i...
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December 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Where are AI’s scientific breakthroughs? It’s been three years since ChatGPT’s release, and still no headlines about AI discovering new particles or curing diseases. When AI does help science, it's not the kind Sam Altman and co. are shilling. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
The Trojan Horse of AI - Women talkin' 'bout AI | Jon Ippolito
Need a feel-good holiday story? How about a Maine community coming together to reject a data center in their backyard.
One of the more instructive takeaways is that the premise of AI's inevitability ...
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December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Another Maine town just defeated a data center in its backyard. In this Women Talking 'Bout AI podcast, Joline Blais explains how her community rallied to the cause, and why AI is only a small part of the reason these are being built www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Yeah I can see some uses for AI in conservation, especially for non-destructive actions. But in-painting is like language translation on steroids – interpretation with a level of cultural context that should not be reduced to statistics.
December 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Yeah I can see some uses for AI in conservation, especially for non-destructive actions. But in-painting is like language translation on steroids – interpretation with a level of cultural context that should not be reduced to statistics.
Hard to believe this won't have unpleasant consequences.
December 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Hard to believe this won't have unpleasant consequences.
Great idea! I haven't researched it yet but an excellent comparison
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Great idea! I haven't researched it yet but an excellent comparison
Give yourself the gift of digital permanence by applying for a DPOE grant to pay for digital preservation training this spring.
Students who've applied it to my online DIG 550 class digitalcuration.umaine.edu say it's easy and paid for the course.
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Students who've applied it to my online DIG 550 class digitalcuration.umaine.edu say it's easy and paid for the course.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Give yourself the gift of digital permanence by applying for a DPOE grant to pay for digital preservation training this spring.
Students who've applied it to my online DIG 550 class digitalcuration.umaine.edu say it's easy and paid for the course.
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www.dpoe.network/training-opp...
Students who've applied it to my online DIG 550 class digitalcuration.umaine.edu say it's easy and paid for the course.
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www.dpoe.network/training-opp...
I just spoke to WGME CBS/Fox last night about a data center proposed for an old Maine mill. Lewiston's climate and water resources are a better fit than in the southern US, but city managers still overestimate the benefits to local economies—about 20 jobs post-construction, many remote.
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I just spoke to WGME CBS/Fox last night about a data center proposed for an old Maine mill. Lewiston's climate and water resources are a better fit than in the southern US, but city managers still overestimate the benefits to local economies—about 20 jobs post-construction, many remote.
You can't make this stuff up www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
December 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
You can't make this stuff up www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Fascinating that there's a historical precedent for this very question!
December 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Fascinating that there's a historical precedent for this very question!
We've updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week's finding by Luccioni and Gamazaychikov that "reasoning" mode increases energy and water usage by 30x. The study casts doubt on the improved efficiency AI companies are claiming for newer models www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#ailiteracy #aiethics #ecology #environment #climate #sustainability | Jon Ippolito
We’ve updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week’s finding by Dr. Sasha Luccioni 🦋 and Boris Gamazaychikov that “reasoning” increases AI energy and water usage by 30x.
The AI Energy Score pr...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We've updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week's finding by Luccioni and Gamazaychikov that "reasoning" mode increases energy and water usage by 30x. The study casts doubt on the improved efficiency AI companies are claiming for newer models www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing. www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon… ...
AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon w...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing. www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
Or Rauschenberg's making a comeback
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Or Rauschenberg's making a comeback
November is digital heritage month. Anyone needing help with a collection can register now for my spring course in preservation or apply to UMaine's all-online graduate certificate, which has been called "a national standard for the study of digital curation." digitalcuration.umaine.edu
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
November is digital heritage month. Anyone needing help with a collection can register now for my spring course in preservation or apply to UMaine's all-online graduate certificate, which has been called "a national standard for the study of digital curation." digitalcuration.umaine.edu
Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#writing #journalism #aiineducation #ailiteracy #llm | Jon Ippolito
Who are we writing for in the age of AI?
Good writers write with readers in mind, and most assume those readers are human. As much as we might hope this is the case, however, the reality of the Inter...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...