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Ian Linkletter

@linkletter
16 posts
2024-04-15
“But the risks of false positives and bias against English learners have led some universities to ditch the tools...”
2024-04-15 View on X
Financial Times

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

2024-04-14
“But the risks of false positives and bias against English learners have led some universities to ditch the tools...”
2024-04-14 View on X
Financial Times

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 …

2023-12-04
“At Mt. SAC, McCarthy Neal dropped an online course last spring rather than use Proctorio. The professor told students they had to run the monitoring program every time they completed an assignment... something that felt overly invasive.” Link: https://themarkup.org/...
2023-12-04 View on X
The Markup

How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers

2023-12-03
“At Mt. SAC, McCarthy Neal dropped an online course last spring rather than use Proctorio. The professor told students they had to run the monitoring program every time they completed an assignment... something that felt overly invasive.” Link: https://themarkup.org/...
2023-12-03 View on X
The Markup

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....

2023-09-30
New robots.txt flag just dropped, allowing sites to tell Google not to use content to train AI models. There should be an open license which does the same.
2023-09-30 View on X
The Verge

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...

2023-09-29
New robots.txt flag just dropped, allowing sites to tell Google not to use content to train AI models. There should be an open license which does the same.
2023-09-29 View on X
The Verge

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 …

2023-09-07
Epic new book from UNESCO: An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19 Coverage of Proctorio and ProctorU's “legal manoeuvres to muzzle criticism” begins on page 365. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/... h/t @BenPatrickWill
2023-09-07 View on X
New York Times

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...

2023-08-12
We won! Zoom has backed down, announcing they will no longer use private meeting data to train AI models. Sharing information in the public interest is essential to protecting our rights. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-08-12 View on X
The Verge

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

Jay Peters / The Verge :

2023-01-05
I went to change my email address and Twitter isn't working. This hack puts activists and whistleblowers in danger. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-05 View on X
BleepingComputer

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.

2022-10-13
Mark Zuckerberg: “In PCs, I think you'd say that Windows during the '90s and 2000s especially was really the primary ecosystem in computing. The open ecosystem was winning.” Number of times he mentions Linux in this interview: 0
2022-10-13 View on X
The Verge

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 …

Facebook's dream of controlling a metaverse monopoly isn't “open” just because it has an API and integrates with Microsoft Teams. Get outta here.
2022-10-13 View on X
The Verge

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 …

2022-08-31
Very sharp work here. I'm not surprised that Pinterest is the biggest source (in the sample) for image data. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-31 View on X
Waxy.org

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...

2022-08-26
Today's ruling in US federal court cements for me something I know in my heart: e-proctoring is unlawful. It just hadn't been shown in court yet. If you don't think these cases will catch up to your organization one day, you are wrong. Be on the right side of history today. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-26 View on X
New York Times

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 …

2021-11-11
This is an article about Facebook being integrated with Microsoft Teams. Facebook is that facial recognition company, also known as Meta. This is a bad idea, but Facebook Workplace has 7 million paid subscribers. Microsoft wants the users - and the data. https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-11-11 View on X
The Verge

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 .

2021-08-06
I'm so glad to see this. When Facebook accuses researchers of violating terms, it has a chilling effect. There are only about 5 people in the world who could afford a Facebook SLAPP, and one is the CEO of Facebook. The FTC is an ally to all who seek to speak the truth. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-06 View on X
Washington Post

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 …

2020-11-07
Proctorio has hired a crisis management firm called Edelman. Proctorio and Edelman said alarming things about @ejohnson99's fair use rights in this TechCrunch article, and I have been bracing for what they will say about me next. https://techcrunch.com/...
2020-11-07 View on X
TechCrunch

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

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :