Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich
@cosmickate.bsky.social
Philosopher of technology, critical to everything AI, amateur climber, plant mother, reading horse (bookworm in Danish)
And generally, for some reason it is very hard to abandon platforms because there are always some people still on Fb, Insta, etc. I always try to replace predatory platforms with better alternatives, but end up only increasing the number of platforms I am on.
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And generally, for some reason it is very hard to abandon platforms because there are always some people still on Fb, Insta, etc. I always try to replace predatory platforms with better alternatives, but end up only increasing the number of platforms I am on.
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
What a masterpiece is this album 🔥
ROSALÍA - De Madrugá
Listen to De Madrugá on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What a masterpiece is this album 🔥
This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.
I am old enough to remember when our teachers warned us about the inaccuracy of information published on Wikipedia and we couldn’t cite it as a source. And now it has become a valuable collaborative knowledge base that is under threat of extinction. Feels like we are moving in the wrong direction.
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I am old enough to remember when our teachers warned us about the inaccuracy of information published on Wikipedia and we couldn’t cite it as a source. And now it has become a valuable collaborative knowledge base that is under threat of extinction. Feels like we are moving in the wrong direction.
Maturing is celebrating major revisions 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Maturing is celebrating major revisions 🥳
Apparently parents are now casually using ChatGPT to diagnose their children’s illnesses instead of calling medical services. As if googling your symptoms was not bad enough.
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Apparently parents are now casually using ChatGPT to diagnose their children’s illnesses instead of calling medical services. As if googling your symptoms was not bad enough.
Trump is throwing trumptum
October 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trump is throwing trumptum
What’s the deal with academic “lightning talks” that last 10 minutes no time for questions? Where are we rushing? Why are we packing so much into so little time in a conference? I prefer talks that last 30-40 minutes plus a round of questions. We need time to digest, reflect, and discuss.
October 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What’s the deal with academic “lightning talks” that last 10 minutes no time for questions? Where are we rushing? Why are we packing so much into so little time in a conference? I prefer talks that last 30-40 minutes plus a round of questions. We need time to digest, reflect, and discuss.
If I hear the Socrates against writing joke used to justify the proliferation of AI one more time … 😈
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If I hear the Socrates against writing joke used to justify the proliferation of AI one more time … 😈
My native language doesn’t have articles (a, the), and I will probably never learn to use them correctly in English. I know the rules, I just can’t seem to be able to apply them.
October 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My native language doesn’t have articles (a, the), and I will probably never learn to use them correctly in English. I know the rules, I just can’t seem to be able to apply them.
Are you even a swiftie if you don’t hate the new album for two days only to start loving it later?
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Are you even a swiftie if you don’t hate the new album for two days only to start loving it later?
Checked academic job listings today and decided to spare more from my current salary. Looks like high time to get some new skills.
September 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Checked academic job listings today and decided to spare more from my current salary. Looks like high time to get some new skills.
This morning thoughts are sponsored by random (Russian?) drones stopping flight traffic over Copenhagen last night. Are we already in the war or do we have a few months (years) of doing our silly little jobs before the shit hits the fan? Hard to say.
September 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This morning thoughts are sponsored by random (Russian?) drones stopping flight traffic over Copenhagen last night. Are we already in the war or do we have a few months (years) of doing our silly little jobs before the shit hits the fan? Hard to say.
And it’s extra nice to win 😊
Just voted in the Norwegian national elections for the first time (got my citizenship in 2022). It’s pretty great to feel that your vote counts, to read all the parties’ programs, to compare policy suggestions. Democracy takes a lot of mental work, but it is very empowering to have a voice.
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
And it’s extra nice to win 😊
Reposted by Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I can't believe I need to have an AI policy! I made it pretty short though: Using AI is cheating, yourself mostly. In addition to the environmental blight created by AI, it makes no sense to use it in your intellectual and creative work. Why would you outsource your innate intelligence?
Omg yes, that
That's how I feel about defenders of "AI literacy" in the classroom; you've added additional tasks for your students to perform critical evaluation of tools that nobody asked for (except administrators and LLM salesmen).
5/5
5/5
September 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Omg yes, that
Anybody else’s brain doesn’t understand the concept of doing something in advance?
September 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Anybody else’s brain doesn’t understand the concept of doing something in advance?
Anything but letting immigrants in
Japan has been developing robots to care for the elderly since the 90s. But despite all this investment (and hype), robots still barely feature in actual care work.
Fascinating research on one of the longest-standing efforts to make non-industrial robots "work" (w/ relevance for the AI hype era):
Fascinating research on one of the longest-standing efforts to make non-industrial robots "work" (w/ relevance for the AI hype era):
Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care
The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened?
www.technologyreview.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Anything but letting immigrants in
@parismarx.com today at the launch of the Center for Philosophy of AI (CPAI) in Copenhagen
September 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@parismarx.com today at the launch of the Center for Philosophy of AI (CPAI) in Copenhagen
An observation from recent conferences: researchers should be more ashamed of using AI-generated illustrations in their presentations.
September 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
An observation from recent conferences: researchers should be more ashamed of using AI-generated illustrations in their presentations.
Funny part about academia is that you can’t really get mad at your job application rejection because they most likely hired one of your friends.
August 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Funny part about academia is that you can’t really get mad at your job application rejection because they most likely hired one of your friends.
The first thing I do as a reviewer now is checking whether all references are real. I perceive it as a shortcut, as it gives a good idea of the overall quality of the submission and integrity of the researcher.
I'm peer reviewing a manuscript for a reputable publisher and came across fake references which must be AI-generated - including to an article attributed to me which sounds fascinating but which I never wrote.
August 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The first thing I do as a reviewer now is checking whether all references are real. I perceive it as a shortcut, as it gives a good idea of the overall quality of the submission and integrity of the researcher.
The biggest choice we have to make in life is between not having to prepare dinner every day and owning a home.
August 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The biggest choice we have to make in life is between not having to prepare dinner every day and owning a home.
No. But you know who can and does?
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
No. But you know who can and does?