Andrew D Wilson

Same, plz.

Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look.

prf-law.com/current-case...

“You gave a planet to a frozen eugenics experiment to live on?”

“Yes, but I got a receipt!”

I could watch Star Trek: Starfleet Debrief. Every episode Kirk explains a TOS episode to an auditor

Fuck ‘em up!

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Good - fighting back works

This is dumb, and you are dumb for being so dumb about it

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

"AI" is not a stochastic parrot.🦜
I wrote this piece a couple weeks ago, but it was hard for me to finish up given AI's role in society and war over the past few weeks. I should share it at some point though. Not perfect, but here it is.
medium.com/@margarmitch...

Don’t talk crazy talk

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Our friend took his cat to the vet and there was a woman there collecting a dog called Spaniel L Jackson

From a thread about great Douglas Adams quotes. I think about this one *a lot* these days.

Me too - not least at the sheer fucking audacity

And of course Gibson argues that the sensory intermediaries don’t lead to indirectness because of the laws that govern how surfaces structure light so that’s another move here

It took longer than i thought for the REF to get weaponised this way, but this is horrifying and so blatant

How do you get direct perception via representation? 🤔

Glum George Lucas talks about how important trade disputes are.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Wait, wait, wait. Is this real??

Oh, interesting! I do like their ability to be critical like this, so I’m glad they’re getting into it

Reality is not a controlled hallucination <p><em>The idea that 'reality is a controlled hallucination' has been recently popularised by figures such as philosopher Anil Seth. But this claim, which purports to be hard, down-to-earth science, i...

"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

This really is outrageous behaviour from them

I really like the Guardian but they’ve been quite uncritically pro AI for a while so I’m glad to see this there

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

The two genders