Please reskeet. The hotline for one stop voting info is already open & will run through the election. You can call or text to get a live person. It's staffed by trained volunteers like my friend who by day is a fancy corporate lawyer but her firm & clients are volunteering here. 866ourvote.org

There are many problems, including that language prediction is not analysis, but this is another critical one

Deep reading, synthesis, and summary are all important skills for developing domain specific knowledge but also for understanding how to acquire other knowledge. Also, as a tool pitched to students—who often don’t know what they don’t know—this seems particularly precarious.

This AI Tool Turns Course Materials Into Podcasts. Professors See Potential.

Google’s NotebookLM aims to make class notes, documents, and even audio of lectures more digestible for students. Faculty members are curious and cautious.

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...

The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes

WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ 10 minutes warning ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ You’ve got just enough time for a comfort break or to make a cuppa before ALD kicks off. If this is the first ALD post you’ve seen, a) where have you been?! & b) tickets are here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ada-lovelace-day-live-online-tickets-945505531497

Finally ready to share. My co-author and I make the case for why it is more important than ever for law schools to offer more courses in state constitutional law. The article is still in the editing process and we are happy for feedback. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Had a conversation this morning with a faculty member who did not know about the environmental impacts of generative AI, and the WaPo handily has visual aids today wapo.st/4d9TJKz

A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots

AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

Not even being in the first half million doesn't seem like qualifying as an early adopter but I guess I was?

I cannot wait to use this tiktok in my digital literacy research skills class. This is an excellent breakdown of the failures and biases in genAI as well as the skill of lateral reading. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8eEudqr/

This is important

TikTok video by Marissa

Sitting in yet another webinar about use cases for generative AI and remain dismayed at how many are about offloading the "cognitive load" of reading comprehension