Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of your own peers in environmental or social sciences... Congratulations, you are now explicitly part of team “aggravating problems” instead of team “finding solutions”.'
https://lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-letter-to-academic-colleagues-using-genai/
We are living through unprecedented trying times for research, times that increasingly look like a crepuscule, a moment of high existential danger for research communities and academic freedoms. Now is the time for academics to take a stand or go to hell after making a Faustian pact. This is my public plea to colleagues consuming genAI products, for whatever stated reason, to stick their head […]
https://lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-letter-to-academic-colleagues-using-genai/
