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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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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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"The world’s largest accounting body has decided to scrap remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating when sitting tests remotely."

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Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating
Decision follows scandals at Big Four and comes as AI tools make it easier to circumvent invigilators
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Reposted by Rafael Rojas, Steffen Mau, Joshua D. Angrist , and 262 more

Reposted by Jonathan B. Losos, Mark Coeckelbergh, Joshua D. Angrist , and 287 more

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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Reposted by Ian P. McCarthy

Reposted by Ian P. McCarthy

Reposted by Matthew Goodwin, Edward Aspinall, Ian Goodfellow , and 279 more

Reposted by Michael McFaul, Timothy Snyder, Mark Galeotti , and 280 more

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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.

It's the real thing!

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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...)

The limits of smart cities

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