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Debora Weber-Wulff

@WiseWoman@fediscience.org

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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on Internet and eLearning interest me, as well as my work on detecting and educating about plagiarism.
My web bookmarks are found at https://pinboard.in/u:weberwu
I let tootfinder index my comments.
Pronouns: she/her/Dr.

Orcid-ID 0000-0002-7335-6548

1030 Followers

564 Following

23 Posts

Joined December 31, 2022

Home page:

https://people.f4.htw-berlin.de/~weberwu/

Wikipedia:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:WiseWoman

Blog:

https://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/

User Name on the Bird thingy:

@WeWuWiWo

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

I spoke with some IT students about their jobs outside of class. Just a few years ago most were working at IT companies, mostly startups, here in Berlin. Today they are flipping burgers and manning the cash registers at Lidl. What a waste of talent, just because companies think that AI will solve all of their IT problems.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@HonkHase@chaos.social Sag bloß, dass Kameraüberwachung keine Straftaten verhindern kann!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 7mo ago

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@davidaugust Not just Norway! Many European countries also have free healthcare, free college, parental leave, and more. It’s necessary to have a well-educated, healthy population that doesn’t fall for fascists…

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

Heute, Samstag den 4. Juli 2026, erhalte ich in Berlin von der PIN AG 10 Briefe. 4 sind aus Berlin (!), die älteste ist datiert auf den 15. Juni, 6 aus München, die älteste auf den 17. Juni datiert. Nutzt die PIN AG Pferdekutschen oder haben sie extra Lagerhallen für die Zwischenlagerung angemietet? Briefe aus den USA oder Schweden sind schneller da!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 17mo ago

@ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org and Jevin T. West have made this excellent resource available called

MODERN-DAY ORACLES
or BULLSHIT MACHINES?

How to thrive in a ChatGPT world

https://thebullshitmachines.com/

Text, slides, videos, even short exercises

THANK YOU for making this usable for free in educational settings and for self-study, this is much needed!

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ChatGPT

thebullshitmachines.com

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 3mo ago

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@bobdahacker@infosec.exchange Now I'm wide awake! FIFA is this unprofessional? Great hack description, nice training material for interns. Maybe FIFA has another peace prize for you :}

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop @SteveClough@metalhead.club @gildilinie@beige.party 1976/ Computer Power and Human Reason https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3

Internet Archive

Computer power and human reason : from judgment to calculation : Weizenbaum, Joseph : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xii, 300 pages : 24 cm

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 7mo ago

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@j_bertolotti @davidaugust True, although it is not every day. We still have lots of work to do!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 5mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop @SteveClough@metalhead.club @gildilinie@beige.party I'm currently re-reading the German version, Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft. Very, scarily current. I am happy to have met Joe Weizenbaum in person, such an inspiring person he was.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 6mo ago

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@sundogplanets Mail. You will regret pitching stuff. Use cheaper surface mail. And *gorgeous* pictures!!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 29mo ago

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@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net There's an open source system that is similar to Slack, Mattermost. It can run on your own servers, so no one is harvesting your text.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 14mo ago

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@katzenschiff Habe irgendwo 600€ gelesen, würde ich bei wg-gesucht nachschauen.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 16mo ago

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@voebb@openbiblio.social @wikinaut@berlin.social Heute mal wieder unter der Woche: von ca. 08:00 bis ca. 13:10 war nur "Die Webseite wird voraussichtlich in Kürze wieder zur Verfügung stehen." zu sehen...

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 16mo ago

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@JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social @peterpur@hci.social I wrote to the "author", he felt he was not able to use AI and didn't know how this sentence got in there. Right. I got a journalist to publish an article about it in German in the FAZ, in print and online (behind a paywall, unfortunately): https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/forschung-politik/ki-einsatz-bei-springer-nature-buecher-denen-man-nicht-trauen-kann-110426568.html

KI-Einsatz bei Springer Nature: Bücher, denen man nicht trauen kann

FAZ.NET

KI-Einsatz bei Springer Nature: Bücher, denen man nicht trauen kann

Der Fachverlag Springer Nature rühmt sich seines KI-Einsatzes. Und druckt Bücher, denen man nicht trauen kann. Anlass für Reformen sieht das angesehene Medienunternehmen nicht.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 16mo ago

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@voebb@openbiblio.social Herzlich willkommen im Fediverse! Warum sind die Digitalangebote im VOEBB so oft am Wochenende nicht erreichbar wegen 'Wartung'?

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 21mo ago

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@opencage@en.osm.town The US made quite a radioactive mess at Thule: https://hibakusha-worldwide.org/en/locations/thule

Hibakusha Worldwide

Thule

The crash of a U.S.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 44mo ago

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@randomwalker @sayashk Amen! I keep speaking about this, and have to keep disciplining myself not to slide into using human-like terms when speaking about the bot. I just finished reading the "Stochastic Parrot" article by @emilymbender et al. yesterday. The paper is from early 2021 but they clearly see that anthropomorphizing is going to be a big danger (and explain how the dang things work and where the bias comes from). Thank you for putting so many links into your article!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 6mo ago

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@alineblankertz No, Me too!

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 8mo ago

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@laaspher Gibt es eine Quelle für das Bild! Ich habe es schon als KI-generiert gesehen.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 36mo ago

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@mmitchell_ai That's cool if it works, but doesn't that mean using the copyrighted text *again* to erase it? That would normally also have to be licensed.... Or if the material is CC-SA then the entire code and database need to be shared ;)

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 36mo ago

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@benjacobsen @mmitchell_ai CC-SA means 'share alike'. Anything that uses it must also be put under a share alike license. So there is no concept of fair use. In Europe a suit could stand s good chance of winning damages.

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 45mo ago

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@Popehat I say 'Let me google that for you'

Debora Weber-Wulff @WiseWoman@fediscience.org

· 4mo ago

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@RKI@social.bund.de Eure Stammdaten braucht einen Freitextfeld für Besonderheiten. Ich habe grundsätzlich keinen Geruchssinn, also passt bei mir die Frage nach dem Verlust gar nicht.