Mils Musings on History

Millie Castleton
Life long history lover turned BA history graduate and history. Teacher, writer and blogger.

[Anthony Avon .Art @AnthonyAvonArt]

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.

[Daniel Hanley @danielahanley]

A perfect visualization of the enshittification of Google search. https://t.co/lEQMQwa2TV

[Fergenstein @BiigRED_95]

How do you read things like this and not want them GONE

[NomDeNonWayne @NonwayneWayne]

Let me put this simply: ChatGPT is not Google. It is stupid and potentially dangerous to treat ChatGPT like Google. LLMs are closer to asking a random weirdo in the street a question than using a search engine.

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

It makes me sad that he’s been ringing the alarm of climate disaster for decades and everyone is just like ‘aw what a sweet old national treasure’ and ignoring him

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Jessica Winter has been raising her children to detest A.I. Then her daughter’s public middle school began receiving Google Chromebooks, which came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. “When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: ‘Help me write,’ ” Winter writes. “If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is ‘Help me visualize.’ She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: ‘Help me edit.’ ‘Beautify this slide.’ ”

Proponents of generative A.I. in elementary and middle schools argue that such early exposure will foster digital-media literacy, and prepare them for a future in which most professions are steeped in A.I. But the technology also poses significant cognitive and social-emotional risks to young people. Read Winter’s report about A.I.’s infiltration into schools—and what it could mean for young minds: https://t.co/xaIqbeGRnl

[cole @shaunasadecki]

if you lot don't put the ai down

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We went from “the humanities are utterly pointless” to “suddenly, no one can read” in the span of about a year.

[★ 𝘀𝗼𝘀𝗼 bct do chan @mnhovamp]

é pra isso que serve a ia não pra gastar água criando fotinhas criminosas ou músicas horríveis

[Chaos Wants Palestine To Be Free @ChaosIsCrying]

WAIT these things are using up HELIUM? The finite resource we need to operate MRI MACHINES?!?!?!

Burn it all down.

[Leni @lenitiv]

Just. Don't. Use. It.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I hate how pervasive this attitude has become. “Why teach languages in schools? Why bother teaching fiction / myth / poetry?” Because school is about exposure to new things; because education without the humanities is worthless; because if the schools don’t teach them, who will?

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Movie effects in 1963 were unbelievably impressive. Even with all the technological limitations, filmmakers refused to let those limits hold back their imagination.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

@nelsonnets This post is about generative AI. I have no problem with AI in STEM.

[mainlymuseums @mainlymuseums]

Millie can take you for a walk though this museum…it’s almost a life size doll house.
@past_paths #museums #museumfromhome #york
https://t.co/DTwHH2nFUq

[Owen/Amatus🍊🔥💥(it/its) @Icyhot_w0lf]

I really agree with the environmental and moral impacts of ai but we are all sleeping on the psychological impact too, the fact that ai is generally rotting away our brains, making socialisation worse, making us question what we see or even thinking that ai is "better" then real

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

Nothing AI can do is worth even a fraction of the damage it'll cause.

[Mils Musings on History @past_paths]

Making friends #crows