US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work
Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca , @thealexknapp , @voiceofsandiego.org , @damon.k...
Udemy forces creators to use opt-out windows, the first of which was three weeks and ended on September 12, to prevent their videos from being used to train AI
https://www.404media.co/... X: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : This is a really wild story in part because Udemy is being more transparent than other companies, and is saying: It is too expensive for...
Academics say publisher Taylor & Francis hadn't told them about selling access to authors' research as part of a $10M+ Microsoft AI deal, nor let them opt out
The big publishers continue to rent-seek & exploit scholars...expect all the other major academic publishers. … Ben Williamson / @BenPatrickWill@mastodon.social : As an editor of a journal publishing ...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon.art , @trent@eigenma...
UNESCO: overreliance on remote learning tech during COVID-19 led to “staggering” education inequality and hindered talk of more equitable, lower-tech options
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed education from schools to educational technologies … John Thornhill / Financial Times : ‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality Benjamin Godfrey / Coinspeaker : UNESCO Rele...
While US schools debate what to teach students about AI's promise and potential peril, universities, tech companies, and nonprofits offer ready-made curriculums
While schools debate what to teach students about powerful new A.I. tools, tech giants, universities and nonprofits are intervening with free lessons. Mastodon: @BenPatrickWill@mastodon … . Tweets: @m...
How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
Morgan Meaker / Wired : Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @benpatrickwill , @nathanielmott , @carlheath , @agavrielatos , and @jtemperton Tweets: Ben Williamson / @benpatrickwill : “We have put ourselves in ...
How an 8-year-old's YouTube account and a parent activist sparked a debate in Denmark on Google's ubiquity in schools and its handling of children's data
An 8-year-old's YouTube snafu—and one unlikely parent activist—sparked a nationwide debate on the tech giant's ubiquity and handling of children's data. Tweets: @benpatrickwill , @agavrielatos , and @...