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Ian McCarthy
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Professor. Interested in operations, innovation, entrepreneurship, change, social media, creative consumers, education, footie, and bullshit.

You can freely access my articles and presentations here: https://itdependsblog.blogspot.com/p/home.html?m=1 .. more

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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · Nov 17
Check out the articles that coined the term 'botshit,' i.e., nonsensical AI-generated content that’s trusted and "used" by humans:

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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 4d
Some signs of the presence of subtle but important behavioral traits in LLMs, typically attributed to humans. This could profoundly affect both behavioral research and agentic use of AI in society.

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Large Language Models in Human Subject Research, and the Presence of Idiosyncratic Human Behaviors
Large language models (LLMs) not only mimic human language generally but are also showing the ability to exhibit nuanced, idiosyncratic human behavior. This could lead to the expanded use of LLMs in r...
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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 17d
AI tools for generating images are advancing. Google’s LLM Notebook produced this infographic for this paper on innovation failure: doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

Visually I think it is striking. The story it “tries” to tell is impressive. The accuracy of the words used to tell the story is disappointing.

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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 20d
It's the real thing!

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Reposted by Ian P. McCarthy

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Elisabeth @serialmom.bsky.social · Nov 25
Das letzte Slide erinnert mich ein bisserl an die Argumente in dem Botshit Paper von 2024: Beware of botshit: How to manage the epistemic risks of generative chatbots. (doi.org/10.1016/j.bu...)

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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · Nov 23
The limits of smart cities

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