Stop Talking about AI-Proofing Courses
As a new semester approaches, I am reviewing applications to my advanced writing course while trying to plan a campus-wide summit on the challenges generative AI poses to pedagogy. Several of these…
ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a data privacy nightmare. If you’ve ever posted online, you ought to be concerned
ChatGPT is fuelled by our intimate online histories. It’s trained on 300 billion words, yet users have no way of knowing which of their data it contains.
How to write books using ChatGPT-4o
Learn how to use the latest flagship AI model from OpenAI ChatGPT-4o to write complete and entire books using prompts to structure the story
Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work
AP survey shows most Americans treat AI chatbots like a search engine replacement.
The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI for work tasks. Meanwhile, younger Americans are adopting AI tools at much higher rates across multiple categories, including brainstorming, work tasks, and companionship.
Copyright Cases Should Not Threaten Chatbot Users’ Privacy
Like users of all technologies, ChatGPT users deserve the right to delete their personal data. Nineteen U.S. States, the European Union, and a host of other countries already protect users’ right to delete. For years, OpenAI gave users the option to delete their conversations with ChatGPT, rather...
Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT
Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online. A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations. It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge.Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations.It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
Poisoned For Progress: How AI Is Quietly Draining Black Communities
As AI demands skyrocket, so does water and energy use. In Black neighborhoods, the environmental cost is rooted in systemic neglect.
ChatGPT-5 Just Changed My Mind — AI Has No Place in My Classroom
I’ve never been anti-technology. I’ve even written about ways AI can help students when it’s used with care. But my first real encounter…
OpenAI's GPT-5 is available for free for everyone. Sam Altman says it's so good, GPT-4 feels 'miserable.'
OpenAI says the model will be available for free for everyone and that users will no longer need to switch between previous models for different tasks. GPT-5 will switch automatically, the company said, depending on the kind of request and its complexity. GPT-5 will be available in standard, mini, and nano versions. Paid users will have higher usage limits.
OpenAI says the model will be available for free for everyone and that users will no longer need to switch between previous models for different tasks. GPT-5 will switch automatically, the company said, depending on the kind of request and its complexity. GPT-5 will be available in standard, mini, and nano versions. Paid users will have higher usage limits.
AI Is Listening to Your Meetings. Watch What You Say. - Slashdot
AI meeting transcription software is inadvertently sharing private conversations with all meeting participants through automated summaries. WSJ found a series of mishaps that people confirmed on-record.
Digital marketing agency owner Tiffany Lewis discovered her "Nigerian prince" joke about a pote...
ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search – here’s how to stop Google from spying on your conversations
You don’t need prying eyes looking into your AI chats
You’re Not Imagining It: AI Is Already Taking Tech Jobs
“We’re going from mass hiring to precision hiring,” said Chen, adding that companies are starting to focus more on employing experts in their fields. “The superstar workers are in a better position.”
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
I would like to address the recent slander circulating on social media, in editorial Slack channels, and in the margins of otherwise decent Substack newsletters. Specifically, the baseless, libelous accusation that my usage is a telltale sign of artificial intelligence.