An analysis of 200M+ student papers submitted over the past year: ~11% of papers showed signs of AI help and ~3% of papers contained at least 80% AI writing
An analysis of 200M+ student papers submitted over the past year: ~11% of papers showed signs of AI help and ~3% of papers contained at least 80% AI writing
Students who outsource their thinking to AI tools pose a risk to future employers and more — The other day I met a British academic …
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
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....
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search
here's why Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Websites can choose to opt out of Google Bard and future AI models Vallari Sanzgiri / MediaNama : Here's how web publishers can opt out of Go...
Google lets publishers use a robots.txt flag to opt out of the company using their data to train its AI models, while remaining accessible through Google Search
Google just announced it's giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company's AI models …
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 / Coins...
Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that the company won't use “communications-like customer content” to train AI models
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A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022
A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.
Mark Zuckerberg touting an “open, interoperable metaverse” stands at odds with Meta using corporate partnerships and case-by-case permissions to build it
Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone. That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta …
Mark Zuckerberg touting an “open, interoperable metaverse” stands at odds with Meta using corporate partnerships and case-by-case permissions to build it
Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone. That's the intended takeaway from this year's Meta …
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...
A federal judge ruled Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used monitoring software to scan a student's bedroom before a remote test
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student's bedroom …
Microsoft and Meta partner to integrate Workplace content into Teams and plan to integrate Teams video meetings into Workplace groups by early 2022
Tom Warren / The Verge : Source: Workplace from Meta .
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement “inaccurate”
The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
Twitter removed a student's tweets critical of Proctorio, which makes an exam monitoring tool used by many US schools, for reproducing Proctorio's code
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