Evening all,A colleague in higher ed mentioned some issues relating to concerns their uni has about a particular student. And while I won't go into the details (and I have no idea who the student is) ...

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As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

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Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…

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The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

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What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

Higher Ed is at war, after all

The NSW government makes contact with the board of next month's Newcastle Writers Festival about the inclusion of Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, the ABC understands.

Hi all,This is going to be the saddest and probably the most personal post I'll ever write. It has very little to do with work, and it's the one that's pained me the most to type. As has been detailed...

Evening all, No, the title isn't about my "colourful" turns of phrase, or proclivity for swearing in the grand antipodean manner. What I'm referring to here is things I've read, thought about, and a p...

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

Evening all, As readers may be aware, broad, sweeping statements are a favourite rhetorical device of this blog. I'm often right, but also happy to adjust or resile my position if I'm not. The particu...

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