Nigel Caplan

@nigelc.bsky.social

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Professor @ Univ of Delaware: ESL, education, linguistics. Focused on teacher-training for multilingual learners. Also SFL, ungrading, resisting AI. Newish books: ESSENTIAL ACTIONS and GENRE EXPLAINED. All views my own. www.nigelcaplan.com

Email senders: "AI for Developing / The Charlatan"
Some parts of Animal Farm are very dark
"Wlimington's spelling bee content registration opens"
Two Bluesky posts: the first is from Effin' Birds and reads "why the fuck am I surprised." The second is from Linguistic Discovery with the headline "US ranks first in online swearing among English-speaking countries."
Email from Google containing this text: Some helpful reminders Gemini can make mistakes, so help your child think critically about Gemini responses. • Remind your child that Gemini isn’t human. Even though it sometimes talks like one, it can’t think for itself or feel emotions • Show your child how to double-check responses • Let your child know not to enter sensitive or personal info in Gemini • Our filters try to limit access to inappropriate content, but they’re not perfect. Your child may encounter content you don’t want them to see • Google Assistant Parental Controls will remain in Family Link and will continue to apply to Google Assistant devices in the home but will not apply to Gemini
I am writing to you as an author who is extremely concerned about your misuse of my creative work. It has come to my attention that you have used several books and articles I have written in the training of your generative AI models without permission from me, and in violation of my rights under copyright. This letter is to put you on notice that you do not have the right to use my work to train your AI models. You must obtain express permission and provide reasonable licensing terms for authors’ works. I DEMAND that you destroy the "AI" products that you have trained using illegally sourced data. Dr Nigel A Caplan Professor
Search results using the Atlantic's tool reveal two of my books were stolen and used to train Meta's AI without my consent.
Screenshot from NBC website about the suspension of play during golf's The Players Championship. "3:30pm EDT update: The 3pm update is that there will be a 3:30pm update."
Survey with 3 questions to rate 1-5 stars. Helpfulness of content / Length of content / Presentation of content. I've rated each one star.
Masthead of the NSF website reads: This is an official website of the US government. Here's how you know. Learn about NSF's implementation of recent executive orders"
Screenshot of three consecutive emails from Best Buy reading: 1) Your package is ready for our delivery partner; 2) Your package has been delivered; 3) Your package is going to be delivered.
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