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podcast friday
Jun. 26th, 2026 07:04 am It's the last day of the semester. I'm taking a course that will last all summer so that I'm technically qualified for my job that I've now been doing for a school year. It's been awhile since I've done one of these courses—which we pay for ourselves and no, most newer-than-20-years teachers do not get our summers off—and I didn't realize the extent to which chatbot-assisted plagiarism is commonplace. Technically the prestigious Queen's University has an AI policy but that doesn't stop everyone from making uncanny valley infographics using ChatGPT. Shameful really.
I was discussing it with a colleague yesterday and he confessed that he also uses ChatGPT to make his comments sound smarter and more polished. I said that I preferred blunt honesty and authentic voices that didn't plagiarize from writers like me, who were not compensated for the theft of our work by AI corporations. But we both agreed that the workload is being rapidly increased, both in courses and on the job, with the expectation that chatbots are reading and writing for us.
All of which is to say that chatbot companies must be burned to the ground for the survival of the species. Or rather, NIMBYs and revolutionaries must unite to stop this fucking scourge. It Could Happen Here's short monologue, "The Necessary War On Data Centres" details how this is happening already and its potential to grow into a proper political movement. It's one of the most hopeful things I've listened to in a good long time.
Let's take our world back from the death cultists who want to burn it down and upload themselves into a machine consciousness.
I was discussing it with a colleague yesterday and he confessed that he also uses ChatGPT to make his comments sound smarter and more polished. I said that I preferred blunt honesty and authentic voices that didn't plagiarize from writers like me, who were not compensated for the theft of our work by AI corporations. But we both agreed that the workload is being rapidly increased, both in courses and on the job, with the expectation that chatbots are reading and writing for us.
All of which is to say that chatbot companies must be burned to the ground for the survival of the species. Or rather, NIMBYs and revolutionaries must unite to stop this fucking scourge. It Could Happen Here's short monologue, "The Necessary War On Data Centres" details how this is happening already and its potential to grow into a proper political movement. It's one of the most hopeful things I've listened to in a good long time.
Let's take our world back from the death cultists who want to burn it down and upload themselves into a machine consciousness.
