Andy Anderson 🕸

Information Technologist
Adjunct Assistant Professor; Ph.D.
30 years of research, teaching, using and supporting academic technology in higher education.

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Predictable, though I didn’t expect to see it show up quite so soon!

[Namanyay @NamanyayG]

dropping soon

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Slopsquatting | släpskwätiNG |

«Nefarious people can craft code with malicious instructions, [named after LLM hallucinations,] put their sneaky code out to be downloaded, and wait. Unwitting [“vibe coders”] then incorporate that code into their system.»

https://t.co/l1FasTmWBF

[RE Sieber @re_sieber]

"because of the threat for flooding, hail and tornadoes facing eastern Kentucky, the Weather Service had to find forecasting help for the office." Let me fix that "because of DOGE cuts, NWS had to find forecasting help for the office." https://t.co/CoOHR5nHEw

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

They fired the director of the Copyright Office and now they're coming to destroy your rights and hand everything over to AI companies.

I don't think people realize how insane this move is, speak up now before it's too late.

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

AI is IA

Artificial Intelligence is an Insincere Advisor

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Hey, Hegseth!

[EFF @EFF]

Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats.

Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences. https://t.co/IwThLhn8gx

[WIRED @WIRED]

SCOOP: AI scientists partnering with the government are now being told to remove ‘ideological bias’ from powerful models. “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” are no longer required skills. https://t.co/vYW0orFkhS

[Gisele Navarro @ichbinGisele]

“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR

🔗 https://t.co/57OYuI2lK9

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

time to print out all your code and mail it to Elon so he can count the lines again

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

@elonmusk @deedydas And some people don’t know how to make government more efficient without destroying it in the process.

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Not Gouda vice, Google!

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

In Google's Wisconsin local Super Bowl ad, an AI hallucination is shown on screen:

It says *Gouda* accounts for "50 to 60 percent of the world's cheese consumption."

Gemini provides no source, but that is just unequivocally false

Cheddar & mozzarella would like a word 🧀

[Pippa Norris @PippaN15]

Deepseek, like ChatGPT, produces utter garbage. Look up topics you know and ask for citations. It misquotes research, misunderstands arguments, & mischaracterizes publications. Like most students, it doesn't read enough. This is meant to be "cutting edge"? Dumb and dumber.

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

@re_sieber What ya gonna do ’bout it?

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Missing Google Search’s cached pages? After a long hiatus, it now integrates results from the Wayback Machine!

https://t.co/n82Wh7Gvhk

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

“Do No Harm” has clearly left the Googleplex.

[Thomas Brewster @iblametom]

🚨 SCOOP 🚨 Google's chief privacy officer is out after 13 years at the company.

Google is also retiring the role.

Matthew Bye, Google’s head of competition law, is also gone after 15 years.

Huge exec departures during turbulent times.

https://t.co/m7OLS0pcO3

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

"Large language models (#LLMs), including those that power chatbots such as #ChatGPT, make racist judgements on the on basis of users’ dialect, a preprint study has found" #AIEthics

https://t.co/uG3GJ4EAAd

[Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 @SashaMTL]

I don't think there's a better plot to illustrate AI's power demands than this one -- not only does Big Tech consume as much as countries like Slovenia, because of AI, their consumption is growing tremendously 🫠
https://t.co/0vzoqo231W

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

Elon must have paid a lot of money to obtain “https://t.co/74sWalSVVv”.

[Andy Anderson 🕸 @WebObservatory]

@rowancheung ChatGPT 4o (DALL-E) does a terrible job when creating images in response to a prompt that are apparently built from images that contain embedded text; the latter appear but are unreadable, seemingly treating it as part of the image but messing it up to avoid copyright violation.