Gareth Morgan Consultancy
@gmconsultancy.bsky.social
Provide DCF and computer science advice, support and training to primary schools across Wales. Creator of The Digital Learning Den platform.
A minor irk. Any email that appears in my inbox with the words 'BLACK FRIDAY' on it, goes immediately into the bin 🗑️ The phrase should be meaningless to anyone outside of the US and yet has seemingly become 'a thing' everywhere.
#blackfriday #irk
#blackfriday #irk
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A minor irk. Any email that appears in my inbox with the words 'BLACK FRIDAY' on it, goes immediately into the bin 🗑️ The phrase should be meaningless to anyone outside of the US and yet has seemingly become 'a thing' everywhere.
#blackfriday #irk
#blackfriday #irk
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S&T Courses running in the spring term are now ready for booking here: www.collectivelearning.co.uk
#CPD #training #CFW #DT #scienceandtechnology
#CPD #training #CFW #DT #scienceandtechnology
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
S&T Courses running in the spring term are now ready for booking here: www.collectivelearning.co.uk
#CPD #training #CFW #DT #scienceandtechnology
#CPD #training #CFW #DT #scienceandtechnology
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Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.
Here is a thread of my feelings
Here is a thread of my feelings
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If it makes you feel any better, I’m a #qualitative researcher and I spent the better part of five hours analysing a single research interview recently, only to be asked by the participant if my summary was #AI generated.
a kermit the frog is driving a car and looking out the window .
ALT: a kermit the frog is driving a car and looking out the window .
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If it makes you feel any better, I’m a #qualitative researcher and I spent the better part of five hours analysing a single research interview recently, only to be asked by the participant if my summary was #AI generated.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Indeed. I’m well versed in the risks as I’m a data professional but teachers are just victims of the hype like everyone else - even DfE are pushing schools to use Gen AI as much as possible: without a full grip of the risks leaving it to schools to discover these and mitigate them adequately
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Indeed. I’m well versed in the risks as I’m a data professional but teachers are just victims of the hype like everyone else - even DfE are pushing schools to use Gen AI as much as possible: without a full grip of the risks leaving it to schools to discover these and mitigate them adequately
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Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-FJfq5
What We Lose When Streaming Companies Choose What We Watch
Maybe don’t throw away all your DVDs just yet.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Richard Brody reflects on why DVD owners shouldn’t throw away their collections just yet. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-FJfq5
At the Hay Festival After Hours in the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay this evening. Looking forward to listening to the guest speakers and especially looking forward to Cory Doctorow.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
At the Hay Festival After Hours in the Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay this evening. Looking forward to listening to the guest speakers and especially looking forward to Cory Doctorow.
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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
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My son's gf, who is studying to become a special needs educator told me that certain students are using ChatGPT to write up child observations, and in the process are feeding the children's actual names into the chatbot. Yet another egregious, ignorant use of AI that will harm the most vulnerable.
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My son's gf, who is studying to become a special needs educator told me that certain students are using ChatGPT to write up child observations, and in the process are feeding the children's actual names into the chatbot. Yet another egregious, ignorant use of AI that will harm the most vulnerable.
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Normies and pretty much anybody to the right of me think I sound like a nutcase when I talked about how bad AI is but maybe above all other things, AI IS NOT NEUTRAL. It is a political tool. It's all about power & money.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Normies and pretty much anybody to the right of me think I sound like a nutcase when I talked about how bad AI is but maybe above all other things, AI IS NOT NEUTRAL. It is a political tool. It's all about power & money.
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Piece by George Riekeles and I.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Some initial thoughts about Hwb and school digital autonomy.
#hwb #digitalautonomy #nationalplatform #Wales #EdTech #AI #GenAI
ictineducation-gartmor.blogspot.com/2025/11/as-y...
#hwb #digitalautonomy #nationalplatform #Wales #EdTech #AI #GenAI
ictineducation-gartmor.blogspot.com/2025/11/as-y...
Hwb and School Autonomy
Thoughts about the Hwb platform in Wales and school autonomy.
ictineducation-gartmor.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Some initial thoughts about Hwb and school digital autonomy.
#hwb #digitalautonomy #nationalplatform #Wales #EdTech #AI #GenAI
ictineducation-gartmor.blogspot.com/2025/11/as-y...
#hwb #digitalautonomy #nationalplatform #Wales #EdTech #AI #GenAI
ictineducation-gartmor.blogspot.com/2025/11/as-y...
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I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both
The AI Bubble Is Not a Question. What Happens If It Bursts Is.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
techcrunch.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.
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FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
FWIW I wrote this. I wrote it in part as a tool to use in persuasion in my own communities.
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
www.startribune.com/adam-raine-c...
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Have or will the powers that be in Wales asked students if they actually want to see AI integrated into the classroom? Tbh, have they even asked teachers?
#ai #genai #edtechuk #education
#ai #genai #edtechuk #education
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Have or will the powers that be in Wales asked students if they actually want to see AI integrated into the classroom? Tbh, have they even asked teachers?
#ai #genai #edtechuk #education
#ai #genai #edtechuk #education
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ChatGPT is driving people with no prior mental health issues to suicide and harmful delusions. I often wonder if chatbots are simply accelerating what the general decline in our sense of community (because of television and the internet) is doing to people's mental health.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
ChatGPT is driving people with no prior mental health issues to suicide and harmful delusions. I often wonder if chatbots are simply accelerating what the general decline in our sense of community (because of television and the internet) is doing to people's mental health.