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On “Tech Yeah,” our expert Grace Kuhlenschmidt breaks down the biggest news in innovation, including the realer-than-life Sora 2 video generation tool, new b...

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The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point. Detection advocates will counter that sure, visible marks like the little Sora “cloud” can be cropped or Photoshopped, but embedded watermarks like Google’s SynthID are harder to rub out. Unfortunately even steganographic watermarks can be scrubbed by screenshotting, model-to-model laundering, or just serious editing. An imbalance of incentives means detectors are unlikely to win an arms race in which counterfeiters are more motivated to subvert watermarks than AI companies are to enforce them. I don’t think the solution is to add watermarks to show what’s fake, but to add digital signatures to show what’s real. The technology for this is decades old; it’s why all the trustworthy web sites you’ll visit today show a little lock icon 🔒 in the location bar. In the post-Sora age, you shouldn’t assume media is real unless it’s signed by a trusted source. If we can do it for https, we can do it for AI. I’ll link to “Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web” by Matthew Gault of 404 Media in a comment. The before-and-after image is the thumbnail from Fayyaz Ahmed’s “Remove Sora 2 Watermark For Free” YouTube video. #Sora #AIethics #AIvideo #AIliteracy #DeepFakes #OpenAI #Cybersecurity | 11 comments on LinkedIn

Six key takeaways, including what the research tells us about how well AI performs as an instructional designer

What if you could put yourself—or your family and friends—into any video you can imagine? Today, we’re looking at Sora 2, OpenAI’s brand-new video + audio ge...

Discover how 730+ marketers use AI to streamline workflows, boost content output, and drive results—see what’s working now and what’s next.

Morgan Stanley sees multiple factors feeding a slowdown in AI spending: cash is a concern, pricing is accelerating, and speculative risk is rising

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

This is worse than putting all your eggs in one basket.

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.

Some common traits at institutions successfully meeting the challenge of teaching in today’s world.

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It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.

In an age in which machines have intellectual capacities superior to our own, we no longer have the market cornered on thinking. Feeling, though, is a different story.

On this page you’ll find information about deepfakes and other forms of synthetic media, including AI images, audio, and video. Before you go any further, make sure to grab the free 20+ page resource How to Spot a Deepfake by signing up here: What is a deepfake? A deepfake is an emergent type of synthetic […]

An artifact of the race to the top in artificial intelligence is that mistakes inevitably occur. One of those many mistakes apparently led to hallucinations in outputs.

Our expert panel examines the preferred future of GenAI in higher education and provides an action plan to help you get there.

Commentary on The AI Tsunami Is Here: Reinventing Education for the Age of AI by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

How are generative AI technologies impacting the stewardship, access, and use of scholarly collections?This week the Forum is delighted to host Kevin M. Guth...

Like a fool, I used to resist, but no more. In the past, I railed against the rise of AI. I preached small-minded sermons to students who had to si...

This semester, I’m leaning into individual and social annotation. Here’s my sequence. **** 1. Students annotate the syllabus as a group. I share the syllabus as a shared Microsoft 365 document and students annotate. They ask questions, make suggestions, and engage with each other. The goal is to clarify things about the course and also to get used to annotation. ——— 2. Students see an annotation I did. I did a “think aloud” annotation on one of our texts. I did Poe’s “The Raven.” I tried to be vulnerable with my annotations, helping out with some vocabulary but also making some connections that just occurred to me as I reread the poem. ——— 3. Students do their own social annotation. I gave students a set of poems — Angelou’s “Still I Rise” and some poems by Rupi Kaur. Students annotated the poem in a shared Microsoft 365 document. ——— 4. Students annotate themselves. Students engage with a custom chatbot, that’s been designed to ask them provocative questions as they explore their own ideas. They pop those chats into a Word Doc and then annotate their own chat. They look for their own thought patterns, identity their strongest moments, and so on. **** In class, I also had students annotate passages and then take a look at each others’ annotations. The goal is to highlight reading as both individual and social practice—which allows students to personally connect with the text, to think about thinking, and to participate in a larger community of practice. —— Image: a picture of one of the best books on annotation I know of, by Remi Kalir, PhD. And it’s available open access. I’ll share the link in the comments. | 29 comments on LinkedIn

Compare the energy and water footprint of AI and digital activities.