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dingemansemark

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language, technology, social interaction • firstgen academic • founding member Radboud Young Academy • lapsed web developer • based in the Netherlands • Onderzoekt de wondere wereld van taal • he/👉

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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to random

So I see doing the rounds as a supposed alternative

Judging from the Codeberg issues [1] and the self-professed ignorance of the prompter about fundamentals of federation and software dev [2], it seems highly likely that Nolto is vibe-coded

Superficially feature-rich but lots of loose ends and basic errors, this is a privacy and security disaster waiting to happen — I would not touch this with a barge-pole 😬

[1] https://codeberg.org/Tensetti/Nolto/issues?q=&type=all&sort=relevance&state=open&labels=&milestone=0&project=0&assignee=0&poster=0&archived=false

[2] https://codeberg.org/Tensetti/Nolto/issues/31#issuecomment-10292844

User pointing out: 'Also, the README file clearly says that everything is acctually implemented.' Prompter JTensetti: 'Because it’s hard to stay on track with everything, I’m not working full time on this. I had it working and then something happened and now it’s not working.'

User pointing out: 'Also, the README file clearly says that everything is acctually implemented.' Prompter JTensetti: 'Because it’s hard to stay on track with everything, I’m not working full time on this. I had it working and then something happened and now it’s not working.'
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to random

I'm seeing this Anil Dash post boosted into my feed by some academics and I'm not convinced by the inevitabilist logic. This logic applies to things like smoking and gambling too — people want to do it, it's popular, it's all around us, we should get used to it if not use it, we don't want to miss the boat.

Academics of all people should also be building spaces where it is possible to resist, where we can deliberate, look under the hood, tinker, critique, and help people make mindful choices.

Anil Dash post "I know you don't want them to want AI, but..."
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@srxl@fedi.foxgirl.engineering avatar srxl , to random

please boost for visbility!!

i recall reading a thing on a website about a year or so ago, about the structure and flow of conversations, and how we can design chat software to better facilitate it. one of the main points i recall was about how conversations are often dynamic, and points of discussion shift as conversation progresses - and so chat software should be designed to manage that dynamicity, instead of forcing everything into a linear history. i'm pretty sure it mentioned zulip towards the end as an example of some of these ideas in practice. the writing was structured in the form of a chat conversation between two people, and had some pretty nice visual design in that vein.

i cannot find this website again for the life of me. does anyone out here on the fediverse happen to know what i'm talking about, and have a link to it?

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@srxl I think you mean this absolutely amazing web comic by Max Krieger, and if you don't, you will enjoy it anyway: https://a9.io/glue-comic/

“and as ideas sprout from our mind-trees / they are enriched and diversified by others”

@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to AcademicChatter group

✨ In praise of niche papers https://ideophone.org/in-praise-of-niche-papers/

What niche papers do you recommend? Let's define as good work by yourself or others that deserves more readers

Three of my own faves: 'Kiss-teeth' by Esther Figueroa; 'Directives to Humans and to Domestic Animals' by Azeb Amha; and 'Tolerable friends' by Enfield. More on the blog!

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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to AcademicChatter group

Got a review request for a journal. Remembered it was THEM making £44 million by signing an AI rights deal without opt-out for authors. Big nope. https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors
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I am not reviewing for Wiley. Did you know that Wiley, the publisher of this journal, has recently made £44 million in an AI rights deal without even an opt-out for authors? As a publicly funded scientist I cannot in good conscience do any work for them. Academia has been fleeced enough as it is, we need to stop being gullible about doing free labour and signing away our rights. I understand this is beyond your remit as editor, but I would appreciate if you could communicate this to people higher up the chain of command.
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to AcademicChatter group

doubt I'll hear back from Andy at but worth a try

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Screenshot of reply to an MDPI email with subject "Re: About your planned paper" Reply: Andy, what an amazing dark pattern you've got going here. Can I ask what you mean by "planned paper"? Whose plan? Mark
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to AcademicChatter group

As always, finding the way to login and actually logging in was the most painful part of completing a peer review. Not mincing words when Springer Nature asks me to comment on the quality of the experience.

Them: what would you like to see improved about the system?
Me: The login for god's sake! You must be aware that it is of meme-level atrociousness.

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Meme of Boromir saying "One does not simply... log into editorial manager"

How would you rate the following aspects of the reviewing process? (matrix of options) Please use the box below to tell us what you would like to see improved about the reviewing platform to improve the experience. (Optional) User input: "The login for god's sake! You must be aware that it is of meme-level atrociousness."
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to AcademicChatter group

Maria Kuteeva and Marta Andersson on how LLMs perpetuate the status quo and hinder rather than help academic discourse https://academic.oup.com/applij/advance-article/doi/10.1093/applin/amae025/7641807 academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group

Research communities across disciplines recognize the need to diversify and decolonize knowledge. While artificial intelligence-supported large language models (LLMs) can help with access to knowledge generated in the Global North and demystify publication practices, they are still biased toward dominant norms and knowledge paradigms. LLMs lack agency, metacognition, knowledge of the local context, and understanding of how the human language works. These limitations raise doubts regarding their ability to develop the kind of rhetorical flexibility that is necessary for adapting writing to ever-changing contexts and demands. Thus, LLMs are likely to drive both language use and knowledge construction towards homogeneity and uniformity, reproducing already existing biases and structural inequalities. Since their output is based on shallow statistical associations, what these models are unable to achieve to the same extent as humans is linguistic creativity, particularly across languages, registers, and styles. This is the area where key stakeholders in academic publishing—authors, reviewers, and editors—have the upper hand, as our applied linguistics community strives to increase multilingual practices in knowledge production.
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@dingemansemark@scholar.social avatar dingemansemark , to random

We write to be read. It's a very special feeling when folks take those words you crafted and whip out the highlighter 🤗

Our paper on open-washing and , out now:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3630106.3659005

Screenshot of a tweet by Gary Marcus saying 🔥🔥🔥🔥, quoting a tweet by #Abebab saying "mic drop" and showing a screenshot with the following quote highlighted: "When generative AI follows the release-by-blogpost model, it is reaping the benefits of mimicking scientific communication —including associations of reproducibility and rigour [21 , 23]— without actually doing the work. And when generative AI co-opts the term open source, it is reaping the benefits of libre culture —including associations of transparency and associated freedoms [ 45, 60 ]— without actually contributing to the commons. This is how open-washing works. There is ample evidence that as a communication strategy, open-washing is highly effective. The launches of Llama 2 and Llama 3 were greeted with considerable excitement in mainstream media outlets, almost without exception uncritically echoing the open source claim as a major selling point. For instance, a Wired headline of April 2024 claims, “Meta’s Open Source Llama 3 Is Already Nipping at OpenAI’s Heels”10, and Fortune wrote, “Meta releases its new Llama 3 open-source AI model. Is it enough to keep Meta at the front of the pack?”
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