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Lila FontesAssociate ProfessorComputer Science Department Swarthmore College 500 College Ave Swarthmore, PA 19081 |
email: fontes at cs.swarthmore.edu office: Martin 210 phone: 610-690-5313 office hours: Th 12:30-2:30 and by appointment |
A collection of links to interesting items, in case our
all-too-human brains forget them.
- Dec 2024: Stop forcing A.I. into fucking everything: nobody asked for it, everyone hates it
- Jul 2024: "stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!" @grand-theft-carbohydrates
- Apr 2025: "why would you ever outsource fun to ChatGPT?" @willgrahamscock
- Nov 2025: "Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious" PC Gamer
- Feb 2026: META AI security and safety researcher Summer Yue watched an AI delete all her emails after instructing it to "confirm before acting"
- Feb 2026: "how many people weren't doing their jobs this whole time." @derinthescarletpescetarian
- Feb 2026: a ward against hubris
- Mar 2026: "consider this: I am shutting my laptop and walking outside" @mumblesplash and @jedusaur
- Mar 2026: Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's AI-run blog is 78,400 lines of AI slop code
- Apr 2026: AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
- Jun 2026: "Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google" arstechnica
- Jun 2026: "I can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions" - Dan Hon
- Jun 2026: "It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests" 404 media
- Jun 2026: "Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. ...We built the library. Someone else started charging admission." @suraj_sharma14
- Jun 2026: a religious exemption from using AI at work Business Insider
- Jul 2026: "Sure, ChatGPT would be faster, but the difference is, I'm right and ChatGPT is frequently not." @elljayvee, on learning to research and write essays
- Jul 2026: "this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously" thread of engineering disasters
- Aug 2026: "negative consequences of offloading cognitive tasks to AI ... abdicating decision making responsibility to AI" tumblr exchange
- Aug 2026: "When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then..." hilarious thread, but please don't do this
- Aug 2026: "Hi I'm Google Gemini and I'm Racist" @buildacatboy
- Aug 2026: "The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except..." - @teaboot and "what would you do if AI went away tomorrow?" @hatosyscurls
- Sept 2026: zero factor authentication @NotADebacle re: insane levels of vibe coding @xoaanya
- Sept 2026: the chart of the decade
- Oct 2026: Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
- Oct 2026: read the vertical axis
- Oct 2026: Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature?