This should be required reading for anyone in HE or education. (via Ben W)

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adopt...

#academia #academicchatter #ai #GenAI *... the accelerated conversion of universities into profit centers for private equity is their accelerated conversion into glorified job-training centers. Most schools are treating their AI procurements as vocational training, in some cases directly transferring university resources toward this perceived demand for AI-literate workers.*

Conning the AI note taker in your zoom meeting. Say hello to AI Summary Optimisation. #AISO #ai #meetings #AIsummaries #academia #academicchatter

Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization | CSO Online

IMPORTANT MESSAGE Please donate to Wikipedia. As we all know, it is under threat (AI overviews, Musk attacks). In my opinion it's one of the greatest achievements of the democratic Internet and global human collaboration. I donate a small amount every year but I've increased it this year. #Wikipedia #openinternet #openeducation #academia #academicchatter

Well hey. I didn't expect my post about Aaron Swartz to get so popular but it's so good to see how many ppl are touched and angry and emotional about what happened. How much we care and what ppl do to share his life and what he stood for. We must modernise copyright law and deal with digital content in more realistic and fair ways. I mean, we are at the #AI watershed. That's a whole other ballpark. Check this paper out.

Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain by Katherine Lee, A. Feder Cooper, James Grimmelmann :: SSRN

This essay is an attempt to work systematically through the copyright infringement analysis of the generative AI supply chain. Our goal is not to p...

#academicmastodon #academicchatter #copyright

I'm working on a paper about developing a *Civic Learning Network* for interacting with the open knowledge web in urban contexts. I outline federated CLNs between cities and connecting to the Fediverse social web interoperably. The paper emphasis is on free citizen access to open knowledge as part of a technosocial contract. I'm citing Aaron Swartz twice, because. It's for #HCII2024 #openculture #publicdomain #urbanism #openaccess #knowledgeweb #fediverse #academicchatter #academicmastodon

Today I will be posting thoughts about Aaron Swartz, who died on this day in 2013. The academic community should be much more aware of him, and challenge the massive problem of academic publishing that we are all part of. Let's make it our mission to tell people about Aaron and what he stood for. #academic #academicmastodon #academicchatter #copyright #publishing #openaccess #publicdomain #otd Aaron's Wikipedia

Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

hi Fediverse tech ppl! Does anyone have any stats on the amount of data being moved around instance to instance for federated connection/availability? Like Ive read even on a small server (>30 users) it's about 1.5gb a day traffic (github mastodon thread). Anyone have any overall stats, or any relevant info on this? #fediverse #data #activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed #lemmy

Usability = 0 User experience research = none. #ux #userexperience #digitaldivide #TechnologyIsNotNeutral (Src unknown)