Spring break. I am definitely not at a beach in South Florida. Probably.

@anasalter.bsky.social connecting the lessons from Flash to the black box nature of ChatGPT and Google. Salter is calls on scholars to push back against the consequences of closed source tools, noting for example how AI summaries are obtuse about how facts are included. #mla2025

At the full session where @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social opened by bringing us up to date on discourse around Generative AI. Speakers balance hope with realism and providing advice on how academia can confront the challenges that are mounting.

@melstanfill.bsky.social presents on AI pedagogies and examples from practice at #scms24. Connects the ways to use and think about AI critically to previous imaginations of how AI could exist and states that everyone is teaching AI now, intentionally or not

Liz Losh gives a fantastic presentation on AI pedagogies at #scms24. Encouraging instructors to focus more on process and literacy to reduce assignment vulnerabilities.

Doug Stark presents "AI Aesthetics, Generator Technics, and Time to Revisit Stiegler" at #scms24 and addresses generative AI image creation in the context of photographic truth in the advent of digital and now generative image creation. Stark reviews both malicious and hopeful uses of gen AI

Yeah, you would appreciate it. "Realize a semiotic regime that is poetic if not poetry" -- Leif

Leif Weatherby presents on the disappointment that LLMs can't do anything more than poetry in his talk at #scms24, "LLM stands for Large Literary Machine." Now notes comparisons to the internet, citing @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social "Prepare for the Textpocalypse" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...