Christina Laffin
@christinalaffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia. She/her.
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
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Thanks to Champagne for linking to another article of mine, which offers further justification as to why telling students to audit a ChatGPT essay for errors is also ill advised. bsky.app/profile/mich...
These assignments encourage people to become DIY detectives, exacerbating a boom in conspiracy theories. The “permission structure of doubt” normalises suspicion as a default setting and suggests that another algorithm (like Google’s search) can discover the truth.
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help?
An art historian argues that provenance research—rather than connoisseurship—is our best tool for authentication.
www.artnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Thanks to Champagne for linking to another article of mine, which offers further justification as to why telling students to audit a ChatGPT essay for errors is also ill advised. bsky.app/profile/mich...
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The scale of intellectual laziness of the tech industry is only matched by its real-world harms; and oddly it only ever seems to grow the hype cycle.
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The scale of intellectual laziness of the tech industry is only matched by its real-world harms; and oddly it only ever seems to grow the hype cycle.
Reposted by Christina Laffin
- Will it account for its leadership harassing pro-Palestinian authors publicly and privately?
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
- Will it account for its leadership harassing pro-Palestinian authors publicly and privately?
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Questions it needs to answer:
- Who are its "anonymous funders?"
- Will the Giller finally end its partnership the Azrieli Foundation, set to renew this year?
- Will it confirm whether it has terminated its Indigo sponsorship?
- Who are its "anonymous funders?"
- Will the Giller finally end its partnership the Azrieli Foundation, set to renew this year?
- Will it confirm whether it has terminated its Indigo sponsorship?
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Questions it needs to answer:
- Who are its "anonymous funders?"
- Will the Giller finally end its partnership the Azrieli Foundation, set to renew this year?
- Will it confirm whether it has terminated its Indigo sponsorship?
- Who are its "anonymous funders?"
- Will the Giller finally end its partnership the Azrieli Foundation, set to renew this year?
- Will it confirm whether it has terminated its Indigo sponsorship?