“Apologies came back from the [AI-cheating] students, first in a trickle, then in a flood. The professors were initially moved by this acceptance of responsibility and contrition… until they realized that 80 percent of the apologies were almost identically worded and appeared to be generated by AI.”

Ars Technica

Caught cheating in class, college students “apologized” using AI—and profs called them out

Time for some "life lessons."

News you can use: How to Spot a Poison Book (If you grew up on Mr. Yuk ads like I did, it turns out that was good training.) https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/how-to-spot-a-poison-book/

Eager to drum up anti-Mamdani stories for his right-wing newspaper a (London) Times reporter interviewed a completely different Bill DeBlasio without confirming his identity. The Long Island wine importer used ChatGPT to script the answers he gave through his Ring Doorbell while away in Florida. I am not making this up.

Exclusive: British newspaper spoke to the wrong de Blasio, not an ‘imposter’

How a Long Island vintner, with the help of ChatGPT, prompted a transatlantic journalistic debacle.

Ever since I was bitten by a radioactive Cis

University of Alabama Special Collections, you have misunderstood the assignment.

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There’s lots of nice book history in this video of the recently refurbished Spaceship Earth ride at EPCOT Center, but I must protest that Gutenberg should not be standing in front of a stack of bound volumes—before the industrialization of printing in the 19th century, buyers largely received unbound sheets and took them to their own binder.

A great exhibition idea from my colleagues at the Fine Arts Library: "Trying to Forget: The Removal of Figures from Early Photographic Images." https://harvardfineartslib.tumblr.com/post/798016873966026752/editing-photographs-wasnt-so-easy-before-the

@Ingrid Burrington Can a headline be a perfect sentence? (For me, it’s the “once again”.)

Flipboard

‘Feisty’ Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz | Flipboard

Smithsonian Magazine - Stealing surfboards, nipping feet, even chasing down surfers: “Our local sea otters—or possibly just one—are getting f...

The Save Our Signs archive preserves 10,000 National Park Service signs at risk of government censorship for accurately describing American history.

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Digital Collections: Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online

The Save Our Sign Archive went live today. The full text of the launch announcement follows below. The Save Our Signs project (SOS), a community-dr...

They’re talking about astronaut ice cream on a podcast I’m listening to and I’m having an intense Proust’s madeleine experience.