404 Media: “A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”
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Daily Archives: October 9, 2024
The Moment of Truth
The Atlantic [unpaywalled] – “The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States. Today, America stands at such a moment. A vengeful and emotionally unstable former president—a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, an admirer of foreign dictators, a racist and a misogynist—desires to return to office… Continue Reading
Why the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling is untenable in a democracy
Washington Post – Opinion – Justices’ ruling in immunity case creates one legal standard for presidents and a different standard for citizens – Stephen S. Trott is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He was appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan. “Under the Supreme Court’s recent… Continue Reading
AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians
Osborne, Caroline and Davidson, Stephanie and Haight, Iantha and Hirsch, Cindy and Lohmeier, Kerry and Quigley, Brian and Whytock, Jessica, AALL-SIS White Paper on Continuing Status and Tenure of Law Librarians (April 15, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4938369 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4938369. “This work provides information to members and prospective members of the law librarian profession on… Continue Reading
The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth
William J Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Jillian W Gregg, Johan Rockström, Michael E Mann, Naomi Oreskes, Timothy M Lenton, Stefan Rahmstorf, Thomas M Newsome, Chi Xu, Jens-Christian Svenning, Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Beverly E Law, Thomas W Crowther, The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth, BioScience, 2024;, biae087, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae087 “We are on… Continue Reading
Compare Countries and Cities Around the World
MyLifeElsewhere is a collaborative community that allows you to compare the country you live in with other countries around the world. We’ll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including cost of living, geographic size, and more. If you moved to another country, what would your life be like? Continue Reading
How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page
NiemanLab: “Whether on the web or the app, the home page of The New York Times is a crucial gateway, setting the stage for readers’ experiences and guiding them to the most important news of the day. The Times publishes over 250 stories daily, far more than the 50 to 60 stories that can be… Continue Reading
