Adam Beauchamp
@delayedcajun.bsky.social
Librarian. Historian. Gulf Coaster.
Head of Research & Instruction at Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans.
Head of Research & Instruction at Monroe Library, Loyola University New Orleans.
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To use it like this is to teach children that a statistical composite is better than their own imagination.
It is morally wrong on that basis alone, before you even get to all the harm required to produce it
It is morally wrong on that basis alone, before you even get to all the harm required to produce it
October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To use it like this is to teach children that a statistical composite is better than their own imagination.
It is morally wrong on that basis alone, before you even get to all the harm required to produce it
It is morally wrong on that basis alone, before you even get to all the harm required to produce it
This is exactly the snark I needed after seeing an AI-powered plagiarism machine integrated into FSU Libraries main search tool.
Survey finds 47% of college students are using methamphetamine during finals week.
Edtech companies immediately demand that libraries purchase "safer" concentrated caffeine pills to distribute and hold seminars on "responsible stimulant use"
Edtech companies immediately demand that libraries purchase "safer" concentrated caffeine pills to distribute and hold seminars on "responsible stimulant use"
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is exactly the snark I needed after seeing an AI-powered plagiarism machine integrated into FSU Libraries main search tool.
Low salaries and burnout leads to teacher shortage. Obviously the solution is to spend more on edtech with questionable outcomes and not to improve teacher pay and working conditions.
Jefferson Parish will use virtual teachers for some honors math and English classes
Hundreds of Jefferson Parish students will be taught honors math and English by virtual teachers this school year.
www.nola.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Low salaries and burnout leads to teacher shortage. Obviously the solution is to spend more on edtech with questionable outcomes and not to improve teacher pay and working conditions.
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The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...
How Do You Want to Be Remembered?
"The best way to honor Charlie’s memory," California Governor Gavin Newsom said, "is to continue his work." And so we've seen in the last week: the targeted harassment of those who've spoken out about...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...
“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
Pope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AI
Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.
bit.ly
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive, but to live well, have meaningful lives, there's a big problem, a huge problem coming down the line," he said.
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Yes, literacy is important -- but literacy means more than "how to use X". It also includes understanding what X (here, LLMs) is and when NOT to use them.
Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.
Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.
September 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Yes, literacy is important -- but literacy means more than "how to use X". It also includes understanding what X (here, LLMs) is and when NOT to use them.
Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.
Synthetic text that reads as authoritative but for which no one is accountable is poison to the information ecosystem.
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TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.
September 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.
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Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Something about the two stories about ChatGPT's involvement in suicides/murder that came out this week that really stuck out to me: OpenAI basically has a boilerplate response when their product gets people killed.
"Deeply saddened"
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
"Deeply saddened"
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
August 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
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for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!!
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
The Rise of Celebrity Authorship | Columbia University Press
Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!!
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
“AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.”
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity.”
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Greetings, consumer. Did you know that letting your child pretend can hurt their mental health? Imagining other lives can lead to discontent with their predetermined social status.
Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.
Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.
“Children, especially in early developmental stages, are acutely sensitive to tone, timing, and emotional mirroring. A child playing with an AI toy will believe they’re being understood, when in fact, the system is only predicting plausible next words.”
Could an AI Barbie Take the Place of Real Friends?
Are AI toys the future of playtime or a risk to emotional development? A collaboration between Mattel and OpenAI raises sobering questions.
spectrum.ieee.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Greetings, consumer. Did you know that letting your child pretend can hurt their mental health? Imagining other lives can lead to discontent with their predetermined social status.
Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.
Our GenAI toys provide scripted play scenarios, ensuring your child avoids unauthorized levels of creativity.
Why must I suffer so much “journalism” that touts all the amazing possibilities of AI to replace our human interactions and pedagogy, immediately followed by the paragraph that says none of it works, so humans have to manually check all of this slop. This is exhausting.
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why must I suffer so much “journalism” that touts all the amazing possibilities of AI to replace our human interactions and pedagogy, immediately followed by the paragraph that says none of it works, so humans have to manually check all of this slop. This is exhausting.
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The thing I always think about is how one of the first things you learn as a librarian is that the first question someone asks is inevitably the wrong question.
July 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The thing I always think about is how one of the first things you learn as a librarian is that the first question someone asks is inevitably the wrong question.
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Lula going after US tech companies today sounds awesome, even calling out how the right uses free speech as a justification to target minorities.
We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.
We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.
hey, Paris, have you seen Lula's speech today? Thought it could be of interest.
July 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Lula going after US tech companies today sounds awesome, even calling out how the right uses free speech as a justification to target minorities.
We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.
We need a broader alliance of countries to come together and go after Silicon Valley so it’s harder for the US government to stop them.
Fantastic article! A must read for librarians.
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures by Andrea Baer
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
"rather than rushing to adopt and promote new technologies whose ethical implications raise major questions, we might slow down and claim more time & space for considering .... implications of GenAI"
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
July 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Fantastic article! A must read for librarians.
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June 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.
With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?
With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?
Will Pope Leo XIV be an ally against AI?
The Catholic Church has a striking clear-eyed critique of artificial intelligence
www.disconnect.blog
May 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.
With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?
With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?
Students are right to be pissed if we outsource teaching to AI, and professors who do are fools for devaluing their own labor.
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Students are right to be pissed if we outsource teaching to AI, and professors who do are fools for devaluing their own labor.
I had a really great experience with the open peer review process.
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Please see our submission pages for guidance. The sub-pages provide information about our publication process and our style guide.
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April 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I had a really great experience with the open peer review process.
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
April 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Like Amazon, but with human beings."
Super excited to share my work exhibiting a history of the book banners in Florida, today’s epicenter of censorship. With pictures!
April 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Super excited to share my work exhibiting a history of the book banners in Florida, today’s epicenter of censorship. With pictures!
Morning flight to #ACRL2025 was cancelled. Now I’m leaving so late that I can watch the livestream keynote from home before I head to the airport. See y’all tomorrow!
April 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Morning flight to #ACRL2025 was cancelled. Now I’m leaving so late that I can watch the livestream keynote from home before I head to the airport. See y’all tomorrow!
And if you don’t obey your digital overlord, the health insurance company that buys this data will use them to deny you health care.
March 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
And if you don’t obey your digital overlord, the health insurance company that buys this data will use them to deny you health care.