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Sienna

Sienna

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security and privacy enthusiast, researcher, AMC A-lister


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    Gen AI Follow Up

    More and more at my job I keep hearing about things like “if you aren’t using AI everyday or finding ways to incorporate it into your job, you’ll fall behind”. This makes me think about all the discourse about whether AI will be taking everyone’s jobs. I still firmly believe a human element is necessary for all jobs regardless of how much one believes we need to incorporate AI. I think the approach to its incorporation in the workplace day to day is fundamentally flawed. It is a powerful technology and it is really cool to see how it has evolved in such a short period. However, that does not make it some magical cure or solution to all problems, there are still problems with each platform or service. I believe many people are so in awe of its capabilities that it is often mistaken for a replacement for their actual thoughts and effort into solving a problem. ...
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    2025-01-15 19:38:24 -0800 -0800 15 Jan 2025
    #AI #Social Media #Education
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    Gen AI Thoughts

    We saw a massive dip in the educational quality students were getting during and post Covid. The amount of teachers retiring and discussing how their students lack basic skills for literacy and critical thinking is staggering. I see so many posts on various social medias taking specific stances or commenting about a recent issue without actually doing any reading and follow up. Like it’s absolutely fine to have a wrong stance on something (I do believe some things are fundamentally correct or not correct than up for debate on). However posing their stance as fact or because of what a specific article says and people always want a shortened version because reading is a lot of engagement and our society is moving its focus to short form content. This can be damaging because people just want to read a headline or quote and don’t actually understand it can be taken out of context and used to spread misinformation - and people just don’t care. ...
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    2024-06-10 19:38:24 -0800 -0800 10 Jun 2024
    #AI #Social Media #Education