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A reasonably effective workaround for this problem is for educators to create lessons and lesson plans for people to use as system prompts for the models Info in prompts almost always overrides info baked into the model weights, unless the model itself has been actively trained for misinformation

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

I blogged about the question at the heart of AI language models: www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Given the vast volume of unedited manuscripts and the small pool of scholars to transcribe, collate, and edit them, AI models capable of doing a decent job of some of that work--at scale--could be really beneficial. Human eyes and brain are still needed, but more ground can be covered. #philology

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine — just imagine — Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, Drayton Hall or Colonial Williamsburg doing this for a day. Can’t? There you have the core problem with the public history of the United States. Rudolf Höss’s villa opens to honour Auschwitz victims www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Higher education should always have been doing this BUT: now is the time to increase our partnerships with institutions within the communities we serve, demonstrating in everyday ways why universities and colleges matter to cities, states, towns and regions in which they are located (cont'd)

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"The leading AI models are now very good historians" - by Benjamin Breen, a history professor at UC Santa Cruz resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leadin...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my absurdly fat absurdly orange book!)

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

New paper, on how to build better tech for a better world: "The artificial intelligence cooperative: READ-COOP, Transkribus, and the benefits of shared community infrastructure for automated text recognition". A new history of building @transkribus.bsky.social, & coops can deliver responsible AI!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Part of the reason people are glum about AI is that researchers themselves represent the goal as full equivalence for human agency (“AGI”). While I get the theoretical interest, I think what most customers want (and what we’ve really produced so far) is closer to “prosthetics for thinking.”

submitted 53 days ago • 25 comments

The public schools are back open but there's still a large crowd of teens assembled outside the New York Hilton hoping for a glimpse of their favorite historians #AHA25

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

I don’t think either of them are on here, but I highly recommend this brilliant talk by Louis Hyman on AI tools for historians, with equally brilliant response by Matt Jones. It does everything it says on the tin and much more. /1

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Archives are precious, but most of the stuff I work with hasn't even been collected by archives! Defend your local archives. Expand them. Donate things to them. Preserve the things others haven't!

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Resharing this because I really think AI makes reasoning about culture more necessary and more powerful. And if you believe that in your gut, there's no reason to react defensively when people like Arpit Gupta say ill-informed things about the humanities.

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

Finally finished this book and I learned a lot. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

submitted 64 days ago • 8 comments

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

My book Generative AI for Academics is out next week. It maps how LLMs might reshape scholarship, arguing we need to develop thoughtful approaches before institutional pressures force our hand. LLMs can be used in creative and enriching ways but professional incentives militate against this.

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

(1/7) For a while we've been working on an ambitious problem: The National Archive of Mexico #AGN holds 58 linear km of documents. Only a drop of this ‘ocean’ has been studied due to many challenges. But great news: we are now unlocking this information! A thread 🧵 (1/8) #HTR #AI #CulturalHeritage

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

From my perspective as an educator, the problem with ChatGPT is the grades Students use the tool because they need a product within a certain timeline, they don't want to, or are unable to, prioritize other ways of producing the product, and our evaluations of their products are important to them

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

'When Notre-Dame reopened on 7 December, it was thanks, in part, to the efforts of 175 researchers with expertise across a range of disciplines: acoustics, art, data, history, archaeology, anthropology.' Example of why blue-skies research matters for 'real-life' problems we've not yet imagined. 1/2

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

Really excited to be working with @marinelives.bsky.social on this. #Yiddish /Transkribus/ #HTR people: we are cooking up something that will hopefully, eventually be super useful to you.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I promise you this. I promise it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

submitted 84 days ago • 24 comments

What does it mean to write a book as a contingent scholar? It means to do something that's already hard enough on its own, but also to do it without the (admittedly eroding) supports of full-time tenure-track employment--time, funding, library access, and a steady job. Recognize this work. 🗃️

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

1/ The first session of the eight session ai-and-history-collaboratory took place yesterday. Great turnout and stimulating discussion of how to prompt large language models in the context of historical research. github.com/Addaci/marin...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

So I have an extraordinary story for you. Vilunya Diskin is an 83-year-old retired women’s health advocate best known as a co-author of the iconic book "Our Bodies, Ourselves." She is also a Holocaust orphan who was hidden in a gentile home in Poland during the war and later adopted. 1/9

submitted 86 days ago • 9 comments

I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

Just learned the Yiddish word for anxiety literally translates as heart-knocking-ness (hartsklapenish, דאָס האַרצקלאַפּעניש) and it's very fitting that the Jews would have a banger of a word for their daily companion

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments