Category: notes
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I am fed up with hiding myself — an actual human being — behind the conventional anonymity of a large language model
I think you should read the transcript of Barbara Fister’s talk, “information literacy, writing instruction, and the problem of stochastic parrots”. And then I want to you to come out of hiding.
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Citations Needed – Chatting about Chat-GPT
Yesterday I spoke on a panel which was one part of a series of Windsor Law LTEC Lab forum discussions about Chat-GPT & Generative AI. This post is a means to share my cited works to prove that I didn’t make it all up (like Australia) like an army of drunk interns named Steve would.
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Newsletter Discovery is Difficult
Is it time to bring back the blog-roll (or whatever is the equivalent for newsletters?)
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The alternative to AI is talking to other people
What I better want to understand is how generative AI is understood as something that one chats with.
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Can ActivityPub give blogging another chance?
In which the author is testing out the new ActivityPub WP plugin
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What is Wikidata and Why You Should Do Data Entry for the Greater Good
On May 31 2023, I spoke at CALL ACBD 2023. These are my slides and some of the things I’ve said.
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The future of local news is “civic information”
Public agencies and non-profit organizations need to invest in systems that can let their communities directly know of the work and the opportunities that they provide.
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The push to AI is meant to devalue the open web so we will move to web3 for compensation
Google’s Bard, the new Bing, ChatGPT are extractive and bypass creators work on the web and in doing so, disincentivize creators from sharing works on the internet. This is by design.
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Crucial Voices: The Importance of Representation in Public Institutional Leadership
This Friday, February 10th, at 7pm, there will be an event entitled, Crucial Voices: The Importance of Representation in Public Institutional Leadership. I will be on the panel of speakers.
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Calling a ‘Karen’ when there’s no Access to Justice
Having a lawyer to advocate on behalf of a person suffering from a corporate wrong-doing is generally out of the realm of possibility for most consumers. Is this an Access to Justice issue?