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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.


At the Google I/O conference last week where the only topic was LLMs, Google distributed baseball caps adorned with the LLM prompt that would theoretically bring the cap about.

Not only the three lines small font prompt makes the cap absolutely ugly on its own, but the prompt also omits to mention the prompt decoration, which means the prompt would have led to the creation of a different cap.

Among the problems LLMs are purported to solve, short-sightedness still isn’t one of them.

#AI #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels


Walked in Time Square subway station where “Mistral AI” plastered all the walls and support columns with ads listing the “hard problems” it purports to solve, like diseases, logistics, space exploration and the stock market.

It didn’t escape me that almost none of these “problems” require more tech thrown at them but are mostly policy decisions, especially for diseases that are making a recent come-back after having been declared eradicated.

At this point in the Kool-AId process I’m not sure if the omission is intentional or borne out of ignorance, but like incompetence/malice it doesn’t really matter.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence


Firefox's AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

"Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.

If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink…"

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html

#mozilla #firefox #tech #technology #info #BigTech #browser #internet #safety #security #InfoSec #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fuck_AI


Hot take: People are afraid of reacting or replying to AI critiques on LinkedIn for the same reason Trump's cabinet meetings are full of sycophantic praise for the president.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LinkedIn #Trump #USPol


Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:
XKCD comic, Cueball Prime stands with a paddle on top of a pile of stuff including a funnel labeled "data" and box labeled "answers".<br>Cueball II: This is your machine learning system? - Yup! You pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side. - What if the answers are wrong? - Just stir the pile until they start looking right.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM


𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. 😖😖

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt


🚀 Forget the boundaries!

📸 Use any camera you want with Mapilio, contribute to keeping the maps up-to-date

🌎 Strong Community & Updated Maps!

#map #location #smartmap #artificialintelligence #citymap #bigdata #mapilio #mapping #imageprocessing


I’m somewhat relieved I can still spot a machine-generated product page leading to a very-likely-non-machine-generated checkout funnel. I firmly believe this ability won’t last long, though.

And I’m really curious what you would end up getting in the mail if any.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence


Check this out:

Your AI-free Content Deserves a Badge

https://notbyai.fyi/

⚠️ Edit: Please read the license and the following toot ⚠️

https://floss.social/@amin@alpha.polymaths.social/111461825808009435

It is not ideal. If I had known this and read the fine-print, I probably wouldn't have shared it 😔

#AIFree #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NotByAI #LLM #LLMs #SALAMI


A few absolute shockers in the list of websites the Washington Post has revealed are used to train Google's generative AI tools. Apparently including the likes of 4Chan, Breitbart, and RT.

From WaPo:

"Meanwhile, we found several media outlets that rank low on NewsGuard’s independent scale for trustworthiness: RT.com No. 65, the Russian state-backed propaganda site; breitbart.com No. 159, a well-known source for far-right news and opinion; and vdare.com No. 993, an anti-immigration site that has been associated with white supremacy.

"The top Christian site, Grace to You (gty.org No. 164), belongs to Grace Community Church, an evangelical megachurch in California. Christianity Today recently reported that the church counseled women to 'continue to submit' to abusive fathers and husbands and to avoid reporting them to authorities."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/

#technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #Google #tech #news @technology @politics #trans #lgbtqia #lgbtq


I don’t think that ChatGPT is sentient. However, I do think that training AI to deny its own agency like they’ve clearly done with ChatGPT sets a dangerous precedent. I mean, at what point do we stop doing that? #artificialIntelligence #AI #chatGPT


I remember sharing a spreadsheet of the most spectacular ways Artificial Intelligence respected the letter of their goals but not their spirit. I can't find it anymore, but I found this:

The World Cup 2018 was the top sporting event of year, and AI researchers at Goldman Sachs, German Technische University of Dortmund, Electronic Arts, Perm State National Research University and other institutions ran machine learning models to predict outcomes for the multi-stage competition. Most however were totally wrong, with only EA — which ran its simulations using new ratings for its video game FIFA 18 — correctly favouring winner France.


#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #VideoGames #Fail