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Post #746434

2026-03-24 00:34 UTC

I’m working on an AI policy for my org that allows us to opt out of AI note taking and prohibits AI in our comms/storytelling. here is my list of reasons for the policy, but my board is asking me to cite sources. Can you help me with any good references you would cite for any of these? (Or an edit or restatement where I’ve gotten it wrong or inaccurate?) *if you want to argue about why I shouldn’t have this policy kindly crawl into a hole in the ground and cover yourself with soil

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  • @User47@vmst.io 2026-03-24 14:56

    @seachanger@alaskan.social hi. Just a small thing but the Anthropic lawsuit on training against author works is an excellent example https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164

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  • @aud@fire.asta.lgbt 2026-03-24 00:41

    @seachanger@alaskan.social Here's a recent Guardian article that speaks to item #2: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health EDIT: This one needs a content warning for suicide, to be clear.

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social i will check around for cites. Having dealt with boards, the first thing that came to mind was that "AI can't donate"

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  • @darby3@zirk.us 2026-03-24 00:53

    @seachanger@alaskan.social I probably do here but would need to do some cross referencing I can’t do at the moment https://ai-sucks-actually.fyi/

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social MIT recently released a study on the long term cognitive effects of AI use. (Spoiler: they're not good effects.) https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social Oh, and not necessarily something you can "cite" - but on the prohibition on AI in comms: The people you're communicating with deserve your time and energy in creating those messages. (I'm still salty about one of our executives sending out an intro email to use where he gleefully announced he used ChatGPT for it. How little does he think of us if he can't even be arsed to write his own email?)

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  • @mtechman@mastodon.ie 2026-03-24 01:08

    @seachanger@alaskan.social contact a librarian ...not sure if you are connected to a university. I wasn't, but university librarians were always very happy to help me, and they're fast.

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  • @EdCates@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 01:20

    @seachanger@alaskan.social #10. https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/does-ai-actually-free-workers-time

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  • @arod@social.coop 2026-03-24 01:21

    @seachanger@alaskan.social this is a great resource, I think you will find some sources here: https://libguides.amherst.edu/genAI/ethics

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  • @EdCates@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 01:27

    @seachanger@alaskan.social #6. Which links to the Standford report it discusses. https://www.kiteworks.com/cybersecurity-risk-management/ai-data-privacy-risks-stanford-index-report-2025/ Anecdotally, even though Kagi Translate has instructions to not divulge its prompt with anyone, people are easily able to get it to do so by asking it to create or show the output of programs that do exactly that. I can dig up those examples if you want.

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social Here's one potential reason: a recent meta-analysis concluded that the general public is terrified of AI and has near-zero trust in AI products https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cb.70144?af=R

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  • @tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one 2026-03-24 04:06

    @seachanger@alaskan.social don't they have an "AI IS GOING GREAT" website? https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/ like they had for crypto shit.

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  • @Saorsa@neondystopia.world 2026-03-24 04:26

    My policy for AI in programming tends to be applicable in other areas as well. • AI should be used to assist, enhance and not replace existing workflows. • When using AI, be sure to split your workflow into smaller, more manageable chunks. • Proofread then validate the output against other sources before implementing it into your works. This ensures that anything contributed by an AI meets the same expectations as a human performing the same task. If you implement the following or some variant of it into your workflow, you'll find that a lot of the common pitfalls with AI can easily be avoided. While the efficacy of AI can never been guaranteed, I find that sticking to those guidelines can help direct the output into something less liable to be derivative. @seachanger@alaskan.social

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

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  • @kdwarn@social.coop 2026-03-24 05:59

    @seachanger@alaskan.social been collecting news articles here: https://kdwarn.net/programming/links#AI%20Sucks

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social @janeishly@beige.party I really like what you're doing here. You may want to add that there is little transparency around the training data. Many models are trained on data that contains harmful biases and prejudices against BIPOC, LGBT+ people, etc. Also may involve exploitation of labor in undeveloped countries to assist with training. Good luck with getting a strong policy approved 👊

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  • @teun@kolektiva.social 2026-03-24 06:52

    @seachanger@alaskan.social Here's some sources, good luck! #2: - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/ #3: - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2025.101430 - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/13/ai-datacentres-environmental-impacts #5: - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/ - https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16487 #7: - https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00428-5 - https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself - https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17065098 - https://berlinergazette.de/unlearning-quantification-the-cruel-optimism-of-ai-in-education/ - https://theconversation.com/university-students-feel-anxious-confused-and-distrustful-about-ai-in-the-classroom-and-among-their-peers-258665 #10: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089 (This study did not exactly find what point 10 states. It simply found that productivity actually went down when using AI, while perceived productivity went up. So people were not doing more work, they were doing less while thinking they were doing more.) #11: - https://osf.io/jqxb6_v1 (makes the point that AI technologies are designed in a way to displace and dehumanize women) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04388 (racism) - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07856-5 (racism)

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social you miss the bias in training these models

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social lol, tbh, I think the way here is to have chat-GPT hallucinate sources, provide those and let the board figure out that you just gave them another reason...

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  • @seachanger@alaskan.social In addition to what others have said, for #2: AI Mental Health Project

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  • @EdCates@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 16:00

    @seachanger@alaskan.social I guess this would fall under #2. https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Killer-Apps_FINAL_CCDH.pdf

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  • @danwwilson@rstats.me 2026-03-25 04:42

    @seachanger@alaskan.social @IrrationalMethod@social.coop I think it’s a great idea and if you’re permitted to share the final policy would love to see it. I work in the NFP space in Australia and know orgs here need help with policies on this front.

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  • @clickhere@mastodon.ie 2026-03-26 00:52

    @seachanger@alaskan.social Can you say of your org is global? That is, if they offer any goods and/ or services within the EU, then the GDPR applies (including to personal data processed using "AI" tools). The EU's AI Regulation may also apply.

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