If versions of any of your books are on LibGen or similar online collections of pirated material, there is a chance it was used as training data for AI, and you may be able to join a lawsuit about it. Earlier this month, a group of authors sued Anthropic, the firm behind the Claude family of large language models, for copyright infringement. The lawsuit states: Anthropic has built a multibillion-dollar business by stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books. Rather than obtaining perm...| Daily Nous
For the latest installment of the occasional academic equipment series, let’s talk coffee. How is coffee done in your department? Is it every-coffee-drinker-for-themselves? Is there a communal coffee-making device of some sort? If there is an office coffee machine, what is it? What do you (realistically) wish it was? Why? Who pays for the coffee? Which coffee do you use (and who gets to decide)? Who cleans and maintains the machines? That is: what is your department’s coffee practice? Wha...| Daily Nous
Graduate students interested in an academic career after graduation day have often been told they need to be open to moving somewhere […]| Social Science Space
Martha Burtis discusses the benefits of loving students in the classroom. Hear how pedagogies of care affect classroom labor.| Hybrid Pedagogy
Kaitlin Clinnin and sarah madoka currie acknowledge that we’re all worn out, then explore ways to contextualize the problem and show ourselves some grace.| Hybrid Pedagogy
Should authors consent to have their publishers grant licensing requests by firms and projects to allow them to train their generative AI on their books? That question was suggested by Elliott Sober (Wisconsin), who is curious what philosophers think of the issue. It's worth noting that not all publishers are asking authors for consent. As| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
This is the first installment in a new series of serialized interviews that we are calling Anarchists in the Labor Movement. As the title suggests, this series engages with anarchists who are active in workplace organizing. Some of those we speak to are building a militant minority within the rank-and-file of their existing union, others […]| Black Rose/Rosa Negra Anarchist Federation