Jon Ippolito
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079p...
Great news for anyone preserving a collection: DPOE grants now fund training like my online digital preservation course on everything from checksums to DNA storage. A number of my past students have landed these grants; you can apply now for my class starting Jan 20. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Great news for anyone preserving a collection: DPOE grants now fund training like my online digital preservation course on everything from checksums to DNA storage. A number of my past students have landed these grants; you can apply now for my class starting Jan 20. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at saveabsentee.me.
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at saveabsentee.me.
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Please vote!
#MEpolitics
Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip. Confirmation of quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... Techradar on Veo 3.1: www.techradar.com/ai-platforms....
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip. Confirmation of quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp... Techradar on Veo 3.1: www.techradar.com/ai-platforms....
Terrifying to think the 21st century is a quarter over! Even more so if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century.
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Terrifying to think the 21st century is a quarter over! Even more so if your library, archive, or museum is still stuck in the previous century.
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
In UMaine's online Digital Curation program, we teach the digital skills necessary to bring your collection into the 21st. digitalcuration.umaine.edu
🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will decide who can vote, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. Bipartisan info at ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.p...
October 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🗳️🇺🇸 Hey, Maine! 2 weeks from tomorrow (Nov 4) you’ve got a referendum that could shape elections for years. It may be an off-year but the outcome will decide who can vote, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. Bipartisan info at ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.p...
We've integrated lessons on AI's technology, ethics, and techniques into our online Digital Curation grad cert digitalcuration.umaine.edu to support jobs like this Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We've integrated lessons on AI's technology, ethics, and techniques into our online Digital Curation grad cert digitalcuration.umaine.edu to support jobs like this Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian:
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
HT to our Dartmouth collaborator @novomancy.bsky.social!
"The amount exceeded all US dollars in circulation and surpassed the entire cryptocurrency market combined"
Nothing to see here, move along
news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Nothing to see here, move along
news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Paxos Mistakenly Issues $300 Trillion of PayPal Stablecoin, Exceeding Global Currency Supply - Slashdot
Paxos mistakenly minted $300 trillion of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday during an internal transfer. Within minutes, the company identified the error and burned the excess tokens. The transact...
news.slashdot.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"The amount exceeded all US dollars in circulation and surpassed the entire cryptocurrency market combined"
Nothing to see here, move along
news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
Nothing to see here, move along
news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...
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Following a student mispronunciation yesterday, I'll be referring to all LLM output as the Ship of Thesis going forward. Thank you for your time.
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Following a student mispronunciation yesterday, I'll be referring to all LLM output as the Ship of Thesis going forward. Thank you for your time.
Funny how the same tech moguls who side with politicians dismantling government in the name of efficiency happen to make their money off of the most top-heavy, bloated software around (*cough* PeopleSoft)
Good introduction to Larry Ellison here, covers the essential questions about CBS News + Tik Tok (and maybe CNN).
We don't know what he'll do yet, but his vision of the future is a bit scary.
(I'm quoted)
We don't know what he'll do yet, but his vision of the future is a bit scary.
(I'm quoted)
lol former Oracle exec: "I remember earlier in my career when I told people I was working for Oracle they would say, ‘Oh you mean the toothbrush company,' and I would say, 'not Oral B, Oracle'
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Funny how the same tech moguls who side with politicians dismantling government in the name of efficiency happen to make their money off of the most top-heavy, bloated software around (*cough* PeopleSoft)
The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#sora #aiethics #aivideo #ailiteracy #deepfakes #openai #cybersecurity | Jon Ippolito
The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point.
Detection advocates will counter that sure, visible marks lik...
www.linkedin.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...
October 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This week we lost avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving. blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-a...
Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Did you know that the Learning With AI toolkit has a speakers bureau for AI and education? Filter for expertise like "agents + administration" or "data + bias," then click on presenters to watch recordings that demonstrate their presentation styles learnwithai.org
We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We offer rolling admission for our online grad certificate in Digital Curation, so you can apply any time. Our spring 2026 courses will cover #DigitalPreservation #DigitalStorage #Metadata #Migration #Emulation #DigitalForensics #WebArchiving and more digitalcuration.umaine.edu
Will AI in the classroom mean students asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework, or strapping on a headband that streams their brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, teachers are already policing attention with the latter www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#edtech #k12 #instructionaldesign #aiethics #aiineducation #privacy #surveillance | Jon Ippolito
Will AI-powered education mean asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework—or strapping on a headband that streams your brainwaves to teachers and parents?
In China, the latter is already here. At ...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Will AI in the classroom mean students asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework, or strapping on a headband that streams their brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, teachers are already policing attention with the latter www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#aiethics #aivideo #aiineducation #ailiteracy #llm #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito
I've updated the What Uses More calculator with new research this week that makes the environmental footprint of AI video potentially far higher than I thought.
On Tuesday Julien Delavande, Régis Pie...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#highered #aiethics #aiineducation #ailiteracy #generativeai #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito
The impact of AI on education may ultimately have less to do with AI itself and more with the habits it forces us to shed, both in classrooms and in our digital lives.
This week I talked with Lew Lud...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Will a new startup topple Nvidia's dominance with more efficient AI chips? I suggest it may not make much difference to AI's environmental footprint in this piece from Inc. magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/w...
Why This AI Startup Thinks It Can Compete With Nvidia
Positron is betting on cost-efficient AI hardware in a bid to take on Nvidia, the industry behemoth.
www.inc.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Will a new startup topple Nvidia's dominance with more efficient AI chips? I suggest it may not make much difference to AI's environmental footprint in this piece from Inc. magazine www.inc.com/ben-sherry/w...
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Playing with @jonippolito.net's app What Uses More to compare generating an AI image with streaming Netflix for an hour or storing 5 GB in the cloud.
How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com
How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com
What Uses More? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks
Compare the energy and water footprint of AI and digital activities.
what-uses-more.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Playing with @jonippolito.net's app What Uses More to compare generating an AI image with streaming Netflix for an hour or storing 5 GB in the cloud.
How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com
How can we get away from unnecessary streaming and cloud storage, since they use a lot more than most AI except video generation?
what-uses-more.com
Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets. it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
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What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
#opensource #aicoding #aiethics #textpocalypse | Jon Ippolito
In another sign of a looming AI textpocalypse, open source maintainers are seeing a 20-40% rise in bogus bug reports that are just fishing for bounties.
What’s remarkable is that submitters using AI ...
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August 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
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Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!
Most educators have moved from denial about AI to cautious use, but the real cutting-edge is creators twisting it to reveal off-label uses and glitches. At least that's what I claim in this UT podcast edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca/made-for-u-o... citing @eryk.bsky.social @annamillsoer.bsky.social
MADE for U of T | Ep. 13 | Generative AI in practice
In the 13th episode of MADE for U of T, we hear from artist and new media educator Jon Ippolito about the evolving role of generative AI in teaching, creativity, and the future of media.
edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca
August 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!
Proud to have my research featured alongside Sasha Luccione/Hugging Face Noman Bashir/MIT Marissa Loewen in this AP story on ways to reduce your AI climate impact—and a surprising blind spot most users have about their digital footprint. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost
As AI becomes a part of everyday life, its massive energy and water needs are coming more into focus
abcnews.go.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Proud to have my research featured alongside Sasha Luccione/Hugging Face Noman Bashir/MIT Marissa Loewen in this AP story on ways to reduce your AI climate impact—and a surprising blind spot most users have about their digital footprint. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...
Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep. It teaches the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online digitalcuration.umaine.edu
August 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Feel like your collection website could be better but don't know the necessary tools? A few seats left in UMaine's online course in Digital Collections and Exhibitions starting 3 Sep. It teaches the fundamentals of getting your records in a database and putting them online digitalcuration.umaine.edu