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Rob Skinner
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Historian: food, activism, transnational solidarity
The authors conclude that we need ‘community-wide coordination to ensure that different parties involved in LLM creation and deployment share the information needed to resolve questions of provenance.’ That sounds to me like … archivists, right?
December 6, 2024 at 1:44 PM
The doomy title speaks, though, to the maths at work here rather than apocalyptic visions of digital mould. In short, I think this strengthens the argument that we need to teach about (and with) AI in order to properly prepare our students for the work beyond the historiographical essay.
December 6, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Couldn’t access the Medium piece, but I think it’s worth reading the article in Nature that it cites: rdcu.be/d2E2F
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
Nature - Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in...
rdcu.be
December 6, 2024 at 1:39 PM
‘From Gygax Goblins to the Elves of Dunsinore’ - that will, dear friends be my no. 1 submission to REF202x
December 15, 2023 at 4:01 PM
Also happy to share an annotated version of the lyrics, including discussion of references to Moorcock and Shakespeare
December 15, 2023 at 3:37 PM
As ever, I think that this is a scholarship that would benefit from a large dose of Mark E Smith …

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December 15, 2023 at 2:11 PM
You know the original location, where all the falling down and breaking stuff happened, is in Somerset south of Bath?
November 18, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Have to admit, am slightly disappointed that it didn’t involve knitwear.
November 18, 2023 at 10:01 AM
Ideals that at times challenge standard views of peace mvts, e.g. the January 1959 celebration of Fidel Castro, ‘Cuba’s Robin Hood’
November 16, 2023 at 10:11 AM