💥 New paper 💥 We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups. For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English. 🧵

I do have a Zotero…but I mostly do them by hand lol

Glad to have written on Harvard Business Review Too often we focus on easily measurable metrics like the total water & carbon. But, AI's environmental impacts disproportionately affect communities. We need equity for environmentally responsible AI. Adam Wierman hbr.org/2024/07/the-un…

Truly, genuinely, this is the worst part of adulthood to me.

JSTOR when Aaron Swartz downloaded copyrighted materials to share on the open web, with the aim of expanding research access particularly in the developing world: theft! jail! JSTOR when it wants to train an AI "assistant" on copyrighted materials: "innovative"

Hello Writing Studies colleagues! Do you teach in a state with that has passed legislation aimed at undermining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in public universities, and feel these laws have impacted or will impact your teaching? (1/)

I’m honored to have performed tonight, for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, and so full of joy to be back in one of my very favorite cities! Most of all, I’m so happy to be celebrating these amazing athletes, with all their stories of sacrifice and determination, pain and

University hiring committees. Please stop ghosting candidates after interview. It’s honestly one of the most profound shows of contempt you could give for a person’s time and emotional investment. Waiting for a decision then never hearing back is agonising. 1/

JWA is excited to announce a forthcoming Special Issue about neurodivergence and disability in alternative approaches to writing assessment. Special Issue editors Megan Von Bergen and Andrew Harnish invite your proposals. Read more: escholarship.org/uc/jwa/SINeuro…

I have for years somewhat irrationally thought that CrossFit is kind of evil…and it turns out I was maybe right all along?

On the academic job market? Know anyone on the job market? I created a template job market folder that includes a detailed read me, a template spreadsheet to keep track of jobs, recommended folders, and samples. bit.ly/AcademicJobFol… Please use or share with others!

"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not reading articles ...." uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-ai-…

LLMs have, in many ways, challenged the humanity of writing—of how and why we write and what it means to teach writing to others. 15 new assignments in this ed. of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments contend with this challenge, reinforcing the humanity of writing along the way

I need one of the youths to teach me how to part my hair so it looks less terrible all the time.

The MLA-CCCCs Task Force on AI are back after a well-deserved summer break. Check out this student guide to AI literacy (which can also be found on MLA Style Center and Handbook Plus). aiandwriting.hcommons.org/student-guide-…

Any discussion about "ethical use" of GAI tools has to talk *extensively* about refusal as a feasible option. The ethical concerns (including the environmental impact, the built-in bias, the threats to language variation, the stealing, etc.) deserve more than a passing mention.

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