If you look at that fucking generic and bland style and tell me it's better, I won't trust you. If I don't like a style or a piece of art, at least I know it's the contribution of one human giving us his perception of beauty and representation of the world. If it's ai, it doesn't even have that aspect. What's left of "art" there?
#art #creation #aiart #ai #aiwriting #AI_Generated
ESSAY: In his essay John R. Gallagher argues that AI-generated texts inherently lack uniqueness and creativity. By selecting from the statistical mean, AI tends to produce content that, while accurate, often feels mundane. Does this reliance on mediocrity stifle innovation in writing?
#AIWriting #Creativity #Innovation
https://meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental-tyranny-of-ai-writing
Coffee recalled for mislabeling a decaf.
Now, giving someone deaf under the guise of caffeinated is enough for a stiff flog, but more importantly was this article written by AI?
Is #USAToday using #AI to write their articles, not just headlines. The paragraphs do not flow, there are spelling and grammar errors, and no one talks like this. The article is a mess.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/03/28/ground-coffee-recall/82706483007/ #aijournalism #AIWriting
I often wonder who lives behind the #doors that I photograph. So, I asked #Gemini to help me write a story. All I needed was a simple prompt and this photo to generate a pretty amazing fictional portrait of the the people I imagine living here in Arcos de la Frontera, #Spain. #AI #GenAI #AIWriting #Door #Travel #ShortStory
Posted into AI Assisted Creative Writing @ai-assisted-creative-writing-sidewalksafari
Find out what happened when I prompted Gemini to tell me a short story about the person I imagine living behind this #door in #Lisbon #Portugal #AI #GenAI #Gemini #AIWriting #ShortStory #Travel
Posted into AI Assisted Creative Writing @ai-assisted-creative-writing-sidewalksafari
What if we could take a modern-day Grand Tour to 18th Century Florence? Check out this hot take on my personal trip to Florence reimagined through the lens of an 18th century traveler with help from AI. #Florence #Italy #AI #AIWriting #Travel #Europe #GrandTour
Posted into European Adventures: Unforgettable Travel Experiences @european-adventures-unforgettable-travel-experiences-sidewalksafari
What if Homerian epics were a thing in the 21st century? I experimented using source grounded #GenAI to reimagine my modern-day trip to Venice through the lens of Ancient Greece. See the results and learn how I did it.
What if I could use the power of artificial intelligence to take my readers on a reimagined journey to Venice through the lens of Ancient Greece. Venice is a place I think we'd all agree is worthy of an epic and poetic treatment! See the results and learn how I did it in the attached post! #GenAI #AIWriting #ArtificialIntelligence #Travel #Venice #Italy #HomerianEpic
Posted into Travel Writing Through History @travel-writing-through-history-sidewalksafari
What if European Grand Tours were a thing in the 21st century like they were in centuries' past? I decided to experiment using (primarily) source grounded #GenAI tools to reimagine *my* modern-day trip to Venice as an 18th century Grand Tour. I found the results fascinating...
https://www.sidewalksafari.com/2025/01/venice-reimagined-grand-tour.html
Attached images are #AIGenerated
What if we could combine my personal modern travel experiences with historical style using the power of AI to go on a reimagined 18th Century Grand Tour of Venice? This post does just that and shows you how I did it step-by-step. #AI #AIWriting #Travel #Italy #Technology #GenAI
Posted into European Adventures: Unforgettable Travel Experiences @european-adventures-unforgettable-travel-experiences-sidewalksafari
Pesky lawn-walkers.
I like to get out ahead of things so I'd like you to meet my eventual replacement here on Mastodon.
Like me, it has trouble limiting itself to 500 characters and determining what's funny in life.
Recommendations on Use of AI in Scholarly Communication
Our Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on the draft of their new Peer Review Toolkit entry: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WmBratJW1UovKxTEqfPjM8iMeCaAKpRI5VYLxdYkXrs/edit?usp=sharing
Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 Sept via https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9dVTje9YZ0HQJzsPYaMUzfct08Oq9f4o6tm78cE9N-3N1bQ/viewform?usp=send_form
We ask organisations or research groups to submit a single response.
"I said “delve” was overused by ChatGPT compared to the internet at large. ... In Nigeria, “delve” is much more frequently used in business English than it is in England or the US. So the workers training their systems provided examples of input and output that used the same language, eventually ending up with an AI system that writes slightly like an African."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt
I've written an article for the European Writers' Council
on how growing up in a world of 'AI' text and image generators might affect the development of young writers and artists. It's entitled The Claw in the Glass Box.
https://againstwritoids.org/the-claw-in-the-glass-box-children-art-and-ai/
#AI #ChatGPT #AIWriting #AIArt #Art #Writing #Books #Illustration
What to do about AI in academia?
1. Nothing. Industry will welcome this.
2. Ban. Academia has been shocked and the use of tools goes against the principle that the work must be yours. Regard use as equivalent to plagiarism.
3. Moderate. Allowed if the instructor permits it. Bans don't handle the issues or educate about risks of using AI tools. Can we instead persuade users why these tools won't help them learn or produce good content?
UNESCO, EU, etc., say a human perspective must be central to the regulation of AI. Tools do not have personalities or personhood. Few countries have AI regulation or laws; the EU has been held up by lobbying.
UNESCO has just released guidance on AI in education and research: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/guidance-generative-ai-education-and-research
LLMs may be biased due to biased training materials, but inexperienced users may not be aware of these biases, errors, or 'hallucinations'. The output may only present one view, but science needs to assess multiple views and varied information.
We don't know the source of the concepts outputted by LLMs, but in academia we need to attribute ideas and use citations.
To regulate the use of AI, Ivana Kunda says new laws and regulations will lag behind. We can instead apply old principles to the new technology. 
AI 'intelligence' in large language models is very different to human intelligence. It shuffles words around to create new sentences by guesswork, without knowledge of the meaning (a 'stochastic parrot'). It may sound sophisticated, but be totally wrong or invented.
Here's Turing Tests: a new in-class activity for those bringing Generative AI into their classrooms
What are ways to AI-proof assignments? Exercises? (Or at least exercises that make its use challenging to students.)
