Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI

The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney filed AI-generated errors and non-existent citations.  In Nikko D’Ambrosio’s complaint, he claimed Facebook profited off of disparaging posts about him…

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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work.  Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv, wrote on X: “If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading…

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Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI the ‘Next Industrial Revolution’

Speaking to graduates of University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities and Nicholson School of Communication and Media on May 8, commencement speaker Gloria Caulfield, vice president of strategic alliances at Tavistock Group, told graduating humanities students that AI is the “next industrial revolution,” and was met with thousands of booing graduates. “And…

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Podcast: Flock Used Cameras at a Children’s Gymnastics Center for a Sales Pitch

This week we start with Jason’s story about Flock accessing cameras in a children’s gymnastics room as a sale pitch demo. After the break, Emanuel tells us why Nature retracted a paper about the alleged benefits of ChatGPT in education. In the subscibers-only section, we talk all about the cancellation of RightsCon after pressure from the Chinese…

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‘Nature’ Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

Nature has retracted a paper that claimed AI had a positive impact on student learning.  The original paper, titled “The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis,” was originally published in May of last year by Jin Wang and Wenxiang Fan of the Hangzhou Normal University…

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