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Sonja Drimmer

So it's normalizing AI as a legit educational aid. That's the point, and that's my main point too. But I do have one more thing to add, and it's this. The president of the Museum of African American History said the following to allay some concerns. This is a common defense. 6/n

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Sonja Drimmer

The defense is: "we use a vetted set of authorized texts for the purposes of training AI to generate responses to questions." Aside from the uncanny valley horror of necromancy that such automated history-telling incites, there's also the issue of sources being processed like this w/o context. 7/n

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Dean Booth 🦆🐇

Who answers the questions, 1850s Douglass or 1880s Douglass? People change.

Sonja Drimmer

Let me give you an example from a different context. Elie Wiesel has recently been AI-conjured for similar purposes in the classroom. But it's important to think abt the nature of the sources being used: that is, Wiesel in translation. Why is this a problem? 8/n www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kids’ ClassroomsEducators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?www.bloomberg.com
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Sonja Drimmer

This is a problem because as Naomi Seidman addressed (Faithful Renderings), the language of Wiesel's revenge fantasies in the original was radically toned down in English translation to create a more docile narrator. 9/n

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Sonja Drimmer

There's an enormous difference between reading and teaching the toned-down book and AI-generating a persona to answer student queries based on that neutralized archive. And that's just one problem with this form of historical fantasy-spinning. 10/n

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Sonja Drimmer

40 years ago Langdon Winner & David Noble warned that critiques of tech in society need to be about BOTH the social & political context of tech’s promotion AND the functionalities of tech itself. Focus on only the former leads to faulty social constructivism & the latter to tech determinism. 11/n

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Sonja Drimmer

So what I am saying here is that just claiming that AI is mid misses the political and economic project it’s being leveraged to bring about (upward wealth transfer), while only focusing on that project without noting the flaws of the tech risks missing HOW it’s carrying out that project. 12/n

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Ben Hanowell

It’s all also hopefully a fad that will soon die out

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Hagen Blix

In fact, the things that look like AI's technical flaws are sometimes precisely what makes them politically useful. Ingeborg Glimmer and me wrote a little thing about this precise point last year for @liberalcurrents.com, you might enjoy it if you haven't seen it yet!

Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save UsThe problem with AI isn’t hype. The problem is who and what it’s useful for.www.liberalcurrents.com
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Sonja Drimmer

Look forward to reading. Thanks!

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R.K

This highlights an issue I’ve seen with AI as an information source: it obscures the actual source. You can train a bot on only factual info, but the AI disguises what perspective that information is coming from, which obscures bias inherent in perspectives of historical events.

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Dan On the Beach

@unroll.skywriter.blue

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DeMisty D. Bellinger

Great thread! Thank you!

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Jeff Waugh

Here's a two year old (!) example from Australia. Besides the inevitable security problems, the entire concept of extruding the experience of war makes me ill. We have poetry! Books! Paintings and sketches! By actual humans! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Queensland’s state library launched an AI war veteran chatbot. Pranksters immediately tried to break itLess than 24 hours after the bot was launched, internet users were already attempting to ‘jailbreak’ the programwww.theguardian.com
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Sonja Drimmer

An update to say that Trent, the director quoted above, was also quoted in this story about the Trump administration’s attack on the Smithsonian. She points here to the defunding of museums. But running into the arms of tech firms (as above) is precisely what these measures are forcing. 13/n

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Sonja Drimmer

This is all part of the same story. Defund the sciences. Defund the humanities. Make both subject to corporate (largely tech corporate) priorities. 15/n bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Sonja Drimmer

This admin doesn’t have to implement this for the humanities because they’ve been so starved of funding by the state for so long that corporate foundations and the tech industry has long been a supporter of very specific kinds of humanities research. See: Elon Musk funding the Vesuvius scroll prize.

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Charmslot

This is also what Marx said in Fragment On Machines. Technologies are about both their production and effect on workers.

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Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot

That’s a fascinating example, as we might naturally fear incitement by AI, but who worries about toning down?

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Laura Covington

Who are these teachers? It’s so incredibly awful!