Chris Slaby
@cjslaby.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
It is one of the things we ought to be most proud of. And thus, its destruction ought to be one of the things that we are most furious about. (And, you know, we can and should stop it and reverse the destruction; rebuild good—great!—public higher ed in the U.S., e.g., @sfndhe.bsky.social!)
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It is one of the things we ought to be most proud of. And thus, its destruction ought to be one of the things that we are most furious about. (And, you know, we can and should stop it and reverse the destruction; rebuild good—great!—public higher ed in the U.S., e.g., @sfndhe.bsky.social!)
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True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
True enough - but when they're both gone we'll only miss one of them.
Tony Judt was right.
Tony Judt was right.
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Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
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But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.
When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.