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What is your favorite example of AI being used in unethical ways?

I'm a university prof in a medical science field. We hired a new, tenure-line prof to teach introductory musculoskeletal anatomy to prepare our students for the more rigorous, full systems anatomy that's taught by a different professor. We learned (too late, after a year) that they used AI to generate the slides they used in lecture and never questioned/evaluated the content. Had an entire cohort of students fail the subsequent anatomy course after that.

But in my mind, what's worse is that the administration did nothing to correct the prof, and continues to push a pro-AI narrative in order for us to spend less time investing resources in teaching.

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I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.

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Secular homeschool graduate here. Parents homeschooled my brother and I because the public school system was drastically underfunded and we were in quite an education desert. I always hate articles like this, as folks tend to paint broad strokes about homeschoolers... But there's a reason we never had other homeschooled friends growing up; there were a lot of crazy ones, especially in Michigan, as there is virtually no regulation.

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"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"

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Yes it is, and that's the problem. I work my butt off to identify mechanisms to reduce musculoskeletal injury risk, and then to maintain my employment, I have to hand the rights to that work to a private organization that profits over it. To make matters worse, I then do the work to ensure the quality of other publications for the journal through the peer review process and am not compensated for it.

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I'm sure there's a compelling story to it, but it sure looks like Wisconsin is getting buillied.

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Yooper here. Your example is on the money, but perhaps moreso than you know: The UP is also heavily populated by Finnish-Americans, which helps explain the cultural resilience and independence as well. The same dimensions that have kept Finland independent from Russia, keep the UP independent from others - and, holy wah, if I had a nickel every time we talked about breaking away from the trolls South of the bridge while at deer camp...

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On The Death of Daydreaming

This article made me wonder whether the issue was with our digital devices or what we're doing on our devices in these "interstitial times." Whwn I was a teen, I almost always had a book with me that I'd read in quiet moments between things; in college, reading is how I passed my time between classes. Now, I do the same with ebooks. I don't think the screen made any difference.

So is the problem filling the interstitial time with anything beyond daydreaming, or is the issue with the instant gratification that many apps are engineered to provide?

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Sorry, perhaps this is a disciplinary difference. In engineering, physics, and biomechanics (my doctoral specialization), and from a unit standard perspective, the pound representing both mass and weight is a false equivalency born out of convenience. This is why the Imperial standard for mass is the slug, allowing for gravitational acceleration of a mass to equate to a force.

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