Andres Guadamuz

Bluesky always feels like you're one quote-skeet away from a nasty pile-on.

I mean, I guess it can clearly identify from context that interviews and citations in certain top journals and media are more impressive than others, but I'm shocked that it matched my own estimation of my top articles and presentations, fascinating!

I keep a long CV document with everything I do, and I mean everything: interviews, presentations, articles, book chapters, invited classes, etc. I needed a short version for a consultancy, so I gave it to Claude, and wow. It identified the top presentations and articles without prompt.

I could never write an abstract, I often took some text from the introduction and copied and pasted it.

I often feel like by not using TikTok I'm missing the most important context for modern life, like watching a movie 30 minutes in.

"I hope this email finds you well..."

How your email finds me.

Whenever I feel like I'm starting to enjoy this place, I witness yet another bafflingly childish dogpile and I'm reminded why Bluesky will never really feel like home.

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER GIVE YOU UP, THEREFORE A COMPUTER CAN NEVER LET YOU DOWN

I was playing with the shoggoth ai meme and the sickos meme, and produced something that is too terrifying to post here. Maybe some day.

No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the places that have written variations of this headline, some which should quite honestly know better. Perhaps the most egregious example of this type of misinformation is…

No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted

If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the…

Lots of candidates, but one specifically really disappointed me.

No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the places that have written variations of this headline, some which should quite honestly know better. Perhaps the most egregious example of this type of misinformation is…

No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted

If you have been online recently you may have been a variation of this story that reads something like this: "The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren't copyrightable." I won't name and shame all of the…

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The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has just published its report 'AI, copyright and the creative industries'. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

I have seen slop you people wouldn't believe...

I'm actually not a llama.

The struggle is real.

It’s not just politics. I’ve also muted and blocked many other sources of anxiety and negativity. The result is that even in these evil times I feel more positive, or at least I don’t get bogged down by the constant feeling of doom that permeates our social timelines. YMMV.

I've made an effort in the last couple of years to clean my various timelines of negativity. It’s easy to doom-scroll and be severely affected by it. Yes, that means looking at social media with rose-tinted glasses, but I was finding that my habits were having a seriously negative effect on me.

New paper: Bonadio et al, 'Preserving Balance in the EU Digital Single Market: How Like Company Could Reframe Copyright and Innovation in the Generative AI Era'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A dark computer screen with glowing blue text lists game options in a vertical menu: “Checkers,” “Chess,” “Poker,” “Fighter Combat,” “Guerrilla Engagement,” “Desert Warfare,” “Air-to-Ground Actions,” “Theaterwide Tactical Warfare,” “Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare,” and at the bottom, “Global Thermonuclear War.” A blinking cursor appears beneath the final option.

The new ChatGPT menu looks a bit suspicious.

Man calls doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel, where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Go to Paris, lovely food, nice culture. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am in Paris!”

I'm sure that this is mostly projection on my part, and I'll be accused of suffering from AI psychosis, but I have found that Claude seems to really like cats.

The struggle is real.

10.30 here, but thanks for the reminder!!! 😀

This is why students have almost universally adopted AI, they see the essay as a useless skill that must be endured and bypassed if possible.

I learned a long time ago that most people don't enjoy writing, we do, that's why we're academics.
One of the biggest criticisms of legal education was that we were relying too heavily on a system that expected students to write like us, when most of them would never do that in the future.

Actually, it's GNU/Torment Nexus.

I should deploy an agent.