markgh.bsky.social
Father, husband, #WBA supporter. Making slow progress with an Ed D on the value of the Personal in Writing (I think) while working in Higher Education. Still believe in education as a force for good.
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Loved learning about brilliant work done by @djrgrey.bsky.social and @katrinanavickas.bsky.social at #HertsImpactSymposium2025 today. New additions to my vocabulary: “baby farm” and “settlement house”.
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Important takeaway from #HertsImpactSymposium2025 : everyone should subscribe to @cilloyd.bsky.social’s Books Up Close podcast : youtube.com/@booksupclos...
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“First, they laid claim to resources that were not their own, but they designed rules that suggested that they were their own.”
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A day to feel grateful for art.
youtu.be/6GqgNebPm50?...
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Sure. That’s one of the evils covered in the book, though it’s fundamentally a book about what it means to write and why writing is important.
Absurd amounts of money invested in Gen AI which could so obviously be put to better use…and without accelerating climate catastrophe.
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Sure. But the wider point being made in John’s book is that it can’t and doesn’t do what it is touted to be able to do. Key point is that it doesn’t write.
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Who’s she? And what point?
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Don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone imply commonalities between students and employees; where do you see this?
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That’s pretty much the opposite of the argument of the book. Think it’s clear that @biblioracle.bsky.social values process over product regardless of what machines can do; machines can’t think or feel, and thus they cannot and do not write. Writing is valuable; machine-generated text isn’t.
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no, absolutely not, not even in the slightest
LLMs (which is what we're talking about here, not "AI" in general) are mathematical *predictive algorithms* that guess what words *other people* would use, based on probability
why would i let an amalgamation of idiot strangers write my outline for me
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Just joined BlueSky and all looks good!