Tanya Augsburg
@tanyaphd.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary feminist performance scholar, curator, arts writer, educator who can sometimes be persuaded to perform. Day job: Professor, SFSU.
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Tanya Augsburg
@tanyaphd.bsky.social
· Oct 15
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
www.theverge.com
The California State University system entered an initial $17 million partnership with Open AI for its Chat GPT .edu product that has plenty of gender and racial bias, as my students & I have documented. Now this: www.theverge.com/news/799312/...
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Larry Summers breezily declares he'll stick to teaching at Harvard, shedding other roles. Maybe to mingle more with females a third his age. #Epstein
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Larry Summers breezily declares he'll stick to teaching at Harvard, shedding other roles. Maybe to mingle more with females a third his age. #Epstein
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 AM
To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.
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Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit
Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
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This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever!
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
AI peer reviewers are fine with AI-fabricated papers
Study finds artificial intelligence reviewers accept AI-generated scientific studies 4 out of 5 times
cen.acs.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever!
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
#ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
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And "women ruined the workplace," per the New York Times last week.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
And "women ruined the workplace," per the New York Times last week.
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The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.
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Hilarious side effect of the OpenAI pivot to porn plus the Swedish ban on online pornography purchases: Paying for ChatGPT in Sweden may be a criminal act soon.
October 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hilarious side effect of the OpenAI pivot to porn plus the Swedish ban on online pornography purchases: Paying for ChatGPT in Sweden may be a criminal act soon.
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Brilliant quote by Ben Roberts on LinkedIn about using AI in grading papers:
"It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’:
‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]
"It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’:
‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Brilliant quote by Ben Roberts on LinkedIn about using AI in grading papers:
"It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’:
‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]
"It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’:
‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]
My new mantra: “I am not a human AI detector, I am not a human AI detector….” as I spend way too much time discerning human writing because I absolutely refuse to “grade” machine writing…
November 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
My new mantra: “I am not a human AI detector, I am not a human AI detector….” as I spend way too much time discerning human writing because I absolutely refuse to “grade” machine writing…
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The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant.
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
November 6, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant.
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
The California State University System currently has campuses that are in severe financial exigency, such as SF State. Do the right thing, CSU and demand its $17 million back!
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Sex is a big market for the AI industry. ChatGPT won't be the first to try to profit from it
OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon engage in "erotica for verified adults." CEO Sam Altman says the company aims to allow more user freedom for adults while setting limits for teens.
apnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
The California State University System currently has campuses that are in severe financial exigency, such as SF State. Do the right thing, CSU and demand its $17 million back!
apnews.com/article/ai-e...
apnews.com/article/ai-e...
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If you're having virtual sex with a chatbot that is a product of a corporation aren't you in some sense having sex with the corporation and giving it this tremendous hold on you/dependency on their protection of your privacy (but they know all your secrets). Who wants to have sex with OpenAI?
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
If you're having virtual sex with a chatbot that is a product of a corporation aren't you in some sense having sex with the corporation and giving it this tremendous hold on you/dependency on their protection of your privacy (but they know all your secrets). Who wants to have sex with OpenAI?
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Jerk-GPT.
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Jerk-GPT.
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So much for all the noble missions and transformations; Altman's AI is down to talking dirty now. Pretty sure it's a massive lie that they've "mitigated the serious mental health issues" and seems likely this new porn feature will generate lots more of them. Bubble, please pop.
October 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So much for all the noble missions and transformations; Altman's AI is down to talking dirty now. Pretty sure it's a massive lie that they've "mitigated the serious mental health issues" and seems likely this new porn feature will generate lots more of them. Bubble, please pop.
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Today, World Bread Day, I learned that the Bread Man has died.
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Tatsumi Orimoto, ‘Bread Man’, 1946–2025
The Japanese artist went on to collaborate with his mother
artreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Today, World Bread Day, I learned that the Bread Man has died.
artreview.com/tatsumi-orim...
artreview.com/tatsumi-orim...
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There should be mandatory Terminator movie screenings for all these AI obsessives. SkyNet is watching!!!!
October 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
There should be mandatory Terminator movie screenings for all these AI obsessives. SkyNet is watching!!!!
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My husband had a great time asking ChatGPT what kind of research I do. ChatGPT gave a rather accurate summary of my main ideas, but could not find most of the bibliography I've published. Book chapters in particular were missing.
Imagine... and we're taking AI seriously.
#AcademicSky
Imagine... and we're taking AI seriously.
#AcademicSky
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My husband had a great time asking ChatGPT what kind of research I do. ChatGPT gave a rather accurate summary of my main ideas, but could not find most of the bibliography I've published. Book chapters in particular were missing.
Imagine... and we're taking AI seriously.
#AcademicSky
Imagine... and we're taking AI seriously.
#AcademicSky
The CSU can no longer justify its status as the “largest AI-driven university system” while squeezing faculty, students, and staff (one of my colleagues who had been driven to despair & illness basically dropped dead over the summer, btw) to their absolute limits and even beyond.
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The CSU can no longer justify its status as the “largest AI-driven university system” while squeezing faculty, students, and staff (one of my colleagues who had been driven to despair & illness basically dropped dead over the summer, btw) to their absolute limits and even beyond.
It’s obvious that Open AI wants to replace the education sector. It cannot expect partnerships with public ed/govts while simultaneously promoting its involvement in the commercial sex industry. Taxpayers will raise hell. College students are adults. They are part of the sexting market.
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It’s obvious that Open AI wants to replace the education sector. It cannot expect partnerships with public ed/govts while simultaneously promoting its involvement in the commercial sex industry. Taxpayers will raise hell. College students are adults. They are part of the sexting market.