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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 14h

«The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!» via @olivia.science via#2 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - thank you

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · May 14

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Table 1
Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 28

In contrast to #AIhype we find a more sensible perspective further back in history. >100 years before cogsci was formed as an interdiscipline, Ada Lovelace warned against "the possibility of exaggerated ideas ... as to the powers of the Analytical Engine ["AI"]" (cf. ACT 1) 19/n

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of [Al]. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency [...] to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remark-
able|.] — Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (personal correspondence, July, 1843; Toole et
al., 1998, p. 186)

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

E l e c t r i f y a n d u s e
b i o m a s s d i r e c t l y
a s m a t e r i a l n o t a s
f u e l .
C a r b o n s t o r a g e v s
E m i s s i o n.
N o b r a i n e r.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 5d

By 2030, biofuels are projected to emit 70 MtCO2e more than the fossil fuels they replace.

That’s the same as the emissions from almost 30 million diesel cars.
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Simon Berlin @simon.berlin · 1d

Das passiert, wenn Portale wie Nius und Apollo News den digitalen Mob anstacheln.

Man kann es nicht oft genug sagen: Wenn demokratische Politikerïnnen mit diesen Medien sprechen, legitimieren sie Feinde der Demokratie.

www.belltower.news/apollo-news-...

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Ich sehe eher „late adopter“, die auch vorher zögerlich/konservativ bei der Neueinstellung waren und auch eher langsamer wieder entlassen - nach Überschreiten der „Schnittmenge“ in der Kurve. Läse ich den Text 🔒 sähe ich womöglich mehr Kausalität und weniger Korrelation…

Simon Berlin @simon.berlin · 1d

Der Economist liefert einen neuen Datenpunkt für die These, dass Unternehmen Berufseinsteiger durch KI ersetzen. Und in ein paar Jahren fragen sie sich, wo die erfahrenen Angestellten bleiben, die Fehler der KI reparieren können. Es ist so kurzsichtig.

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. I am shipping zines today. Get your order in. It’s a delight to read. There’s cartoons! www.mulebooks.com/store/dont-b...

Don't Build the Torment Nexus! zine — MULE BOOKS

It’s a wee 3×5 zine with an essay inside and some fun collages. You want it. You want more than one.

www.mulebooks.com

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Für mich immer noch ein wundersames Erlebnis gewesen, das Heinz (Verwandtschaftsgrad und Co lass ich mal weg) ein Teil unserer großen Familie sein konnte und all dem entging und er und alle Seinesvergleichen als normaler „Teil“ von Gesellschaft sein konnte und Behinderung normal wurde für mich.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Ohne oben genannte Sonderfunktionen.
Danke.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Die gleiche Führungskraft: „Hm. Lasst - alle - Hoffnung - fahren. Hm. Das ist ein toller neuer Claim!“

Im selben Raum, andere Ecke des Sitzkreises: „… gnihihi, ey, darauf kannste aber einen fahren lassen! Aber sowas von!“

Alles schon mal gehabt. Sinngemäß.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

«If education is …efficiently sorting students into rankings …, automate away! (If it)‘s about human development, critical thinking, and the transformative experience of having your ideas taken seriously by another human being. That’s not something we should be in a rush to outsource to a machine.»

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Sharing this from @marcwatkins.bsky.social again about the dead end and despair that awaits if AI grading is embraced. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/the-danger...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

marcwatkins.substack.com

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

:) and good morning!

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

In case you jumped over the link, thinking it’s the same as the cited one. :)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

You'll appreciate makeism as defined in work with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social here bsky.app/profile/iris...

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Dec 1

In any case, here our work and predictions

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Follow this thread into another analogy in a perspective on learning at school via cybernetic ideas of control (of students minds) and makeism (as in lesson plans) plus this (!) which has to be added in my perspective. Thank you both for mind boggling around midnight … bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 2d

Good thread, but I want to single out the fundamental motive being 'control', because I think that's the key to all of this

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

2/10 Computational functionalism claims that consciousness is nothing more than the right kind of computation, no matter the material it runs on. This fictional abstraction, dressed as theory, hides a political aim: to make control appear natural. How?

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admirablewomen.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD in 2009, Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She won "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons." #WomenInSTEM

nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 1d

Liebe Microsoft Certified Trainer #MCT in da House of #ms365 : Heißt das, sie stellen es auch mehrmals gegen den Wunsch derjenigen wieder an?
[Frage für Schulen in #eduHH…] #lernenmitKi

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24d

“(…) jargon infused with technology industry hype, such as shown in Table 1, does not meaningfully explain. (…) We strive to remain critical of the vocabulary the technology industry coopts and deploys, and to remain respectful of scientific terminology.”

zenodo.org/records/1706...

8/🧵

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

cc @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social

Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

Freiheit (Entfaltung der Einzelnen oder Dividuen) und der Gleichheit (nach welchem Maßstab auch dann immer: Bedürfnis nach Kinderbetreuung-> andere Arbeitszeit, Leistung -> höherer Stundenfaktor, …)

Kuchen bleibt, mehr am Tisch und vielleicht auch mal nicht nur Kuchen - cc @mafaalani.bsky.social

Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

@onachtwey.bsky.social - als einer der beiden Antwortenden/Analysierenden - und ihrer beiden Beobachtungen passen zum fortgeschrittenen #Nullsummenspiel in Schule. Dort gibt es auch immer weniger zu verteilen bei gleichzeitig zunehmender Freiheit und Inklusion.

Demokratie/Schule pendelt stets zw.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

„Liberale Gesellschaften haben versucht, Verteilungs- und Interessenkonflikte durch ökonomisches Wachstum zu lösen. Angesichts der ökologischen Grenzen des Kapitalismus wird eine verstärkte Debatte nötig sein, wie eine möglichst gerechte Gesellschaft auch ohne Wachstum funktionieren kann.“ dazu von

Andreas Tobler @andreastobler.bsky.social · 2d

«Die rechte Zerstörungslust erfasst auch Teile der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft». Grosses Interview mit Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey - von @sandrobenini.bsky.social und mir: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/zerstoerungs...

Demokratischer Faschismus? Carolin Amlinger und Oliver Nachtwey über die Lust an Zerstörung

Amlinger und Nachtwey sehen eine Gefahr heraufziehen, die grösser sei als der Rechtspopulismus. Dabei stützt sich das Autorenpaar auch auf eigene Erhebungen.

www.tagesanzeiger.ch

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass das Lied irgendwann bei zweiMinutensonstwas kurz hinter der Schmerzgrenze doch noch ansetzt, abzuheben. Dann fliegt es tatsächlich. ❤️‍🩹

[vorab wurde hier bereits „… uuund was ist das da rechts?“ „Der Mond!“ passend dazu gezeichnet.]

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

… wir könnten ihn Donners- oder Freitag mal selber in Hamburg fragen/interviewen, wie das damals so war, den Niederländer.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 2d

«Maschines which Seem to Think» #Neurath #LernenmitKI #kybernetik #BlueLz #Isotype

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Feb 25

Marie Neurath is amazing, and her book on cognitive science for kids is wonderful: Machines which Seem to Think (1954). H/t @irisvanrooij.bsky.social youtu.be/XBWhdcD0r9I for this video about her. Book available for free online: www.fulltable.com/iso/mw.htm

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