How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
Jon Ippolito
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wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
At today's UMA Faculty Institute @leaton01.bsky.social urges faculty to steer higher Ed through the AI disruption rather than sit back and watch
I remember the day a sharp-eyed art handler and I discovered that unlabeled piece amidst correspondence in the bowels of the Guggenheim. I'd never seen a Ramirez like it...led to an exhibition of hitherto unknown coloristic drawings by this outsider artist.
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Prompt engineering is a moving target. Here's my rundown on how GPT-5.5 and Claude 4.7 reward clarified output over magical incantations, and what it means for AI literacy www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Gallup finds Americans would rather live near a nuclear plant than an AI data center. This resistance seems largely independent of AI disapproval. And respondents didn't even cite less publicized hazards, like e-waste/noise/exhaust/job ephemerality www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
Need to put your collection in a database? On the web? There's a course for that! Join us online this fall for Digital Collections & Exhibitions, part of UMaine's all-online Digital Curation program digitalcuration.umaine.edu
#DigitalCuration #libraries #collections #archives #museums #GLAM
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I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
UMaine's summer Digital Curation classes are full but we have space in this fall's online course DIG 540 (Digital Collections and Exhibitions), aimed to help everyone from labs to libraries organize their material and put it online digitalcuration.umaine.edu
If AI accounts for only 20% of data center use, why is it the justification for nearly every new data center? I did the math and suspect Big Tech is using AI as a cover for unpopular uses like surveillance advertising.
blog.still-water.net/what-if-data...
This week GitHub starts training on your code by default. For me, code reuse is probably the most ethical AI use case. But turn off training if you're worried about others using your code unethically:
Settings > Copilot > Features > Privacy
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
www.statnews.com
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦
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A study of websites created since 2022 found 1 in 3 are AI-generated text. And their characteristics follow my prediction that AI will act as compression algorithm on cultural heritage. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp...
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The latest OpenAI and Anthropic models made “best practices” prompting techniques obsolete. What does this mean for AI literacy?
Claims of downgraded performance with GPT-5.5 and Claude 4.7 last mont...
Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a data center.
A Gallup poll conducted in March out this week found 71% of Americans oppose the construction of new data centers in ...
A study of websites created since 2022 found 1 in 3 are AI-generated text. And their characteristics follow my model of AI as compression algorithm.
Researchers from Imperial College London and Stanf...
