Phil Choong
@philchoong.bsky.social
PhD candidate. Academic interests in rhetorical education & critical university studies. Also here for games, pro wrestling, podcasts, and pet photos. (he/him)
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Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Something to keep your eye on. Popular discourse is starting to turn against AI, so new frameworks are being built to continue selling it. We are about to see a flood of media that qualifies AI: “Gen AI” is bad and overhyped but “predictive” or “analytic AI” is responsible and good. +
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"
an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
Didn’t think we could beat “all my apes gone” but here we are
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
From the OpenAI community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community
www.reddit.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Didn’t think we could beat “all my apes gone” but here we are
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The process of finding one's voice goes through refinement of multiple stories until you get to the ones that speak to you, and every individual piece is a journey to figure out what it is about. It may not always be conscious but it is there
No story springs in its final form (2/?)
No story springs in its final form (2/?)
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The process of finding one's voice goes through refinement of multiple stories until you get to the ones that speak to you, and every individual piece is a journey to figure out what it is about. It may not always be conscious but it is there
No story springs in its final form (2/?)
No story springs in its final form (2/?)
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I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I can't find the thread anymore so I'll paraphrase but
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
People pushing AI in the arts dont understand that art is the process not the result
Writing is about the words and the meaning and how they slot together. Painting is about colour and texture and the physicality of the paintbrush on paper
(1/?)
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
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Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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billionaires could do amazing things every week but don't. elon musk could launch 52 sodas a year instead of fake mars bs, but we are never going to get beverast, the first good soda to taste like eggs, the most important can of the day
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
billionaires could do amazing things every week but don't. elon musk could launch 52 sodas a year instead of fake mars bs, but we are never going to get beverast, the first good soda to taste like eggs, the most important can of the day
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.
After mass AI college-cheating freakout, many admissions offices are using it to screen student applications | Fortune
It wasn't long ago they began banning student use of it for homework or test-taking. Admissions offices are different, though.
fortune.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.
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Chiming in here as your Friendly Neighborhood NTT, but NTTs, grad students, and other instructors of varying levels of precarity are often the ones on the front lines here. Our tenured colleagues keep talking about tenure as an umbrella or shield, and it would be nice to see those actually deployed.
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Chiming in here as your Friendly Neighborhood NTT, but NTTs, grad students, and other instructors of varying levels of precarity are often the ones on the front lines here. Our tenured colleagues keep talking about tenure as an umbrella or shield, and it would be nice to see those actually deployed.
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
“Wrestling is a shared dream.” Pro wrestling rules and this article captures some of my favorite things about the art form.
I’m going to be thinking about this essay alongside Eddie Kingston’s “I am pro wrestling” promo for a while
I’m going to be thinking about this essay alongside Eddie Kingston’s “I am pro wrestling” promo for a while
The Invisible String - An unconventional wrestling article for your judgement 🤼
The Invisible String: Why the Wrestling Audience is the Instrument - WrestleJoy
If you took a world-class professional wrestler and dropped them onto a desert island, could they still wrestle? They could execute the moves. They could run the ropes if they built them. They could d...
wrestlejoy.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 AM
“Wrestling is a shared dream.” Pro wrestling rules and this article captures some of my favorite things about the art form.
I’m going to be thinking about this essay alongside Eddie Kingston’s “I am pro wrestling” promo for a while
I’m going to be thinking about this essay alongside Eddie Kingston’s “I am pro wrestling” promo for a while
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The Invisible String - An unconventional wrestling article for your judgement 🤼
The Invisible String: Why the Wrestling Audience is the Instrument - WrestleJoy
If you took a world-class professional wrestler and dropped them onto a desert island, could they still wrestle? They could execute the moves. They could run the ropes if they built them. They could d...
wrestlejoy.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Invisible String - An unconventional wrestling article for your judgement 🤼
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Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
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Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.
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Babies are born worshiping unknown gods
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Babies are born worshiping unknown gods
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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Yn thys case the joke ys literallye real: Gen AI ys a scam by Big Tech companyes to sell more Gen AI
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Yn thys case the joke ys literallye real: Gen AI ys a scam by Big Tech companyes to sell more Gen AI
Why did I read this in Captain Benjamin Sisko’s voice?
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Why did I read this in Captain Benjamin Sisko’s voice?
Happy black cat day, to all those who celebrate!
October 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Happy black cat day, to all those who celebrate!