Public universities are under constant threat of budget cuts, but somehow administrators find millions to toss at extractive tech, like ChatGPT Edu.
SF State professor Martha Kenney describes how administrators at the CSUs spent $17 million on a contract with OpenAI without asking students or professors if it was a good idea—subsidizing an industry built on hype and plaigiarism.
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Martha Kenney and Martha Lincoln: "Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence And Austerity In The Neoliberal University"
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6z5pa_v1
MIT Study
https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
Library of Babel Listserv
https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/assembly
Episode with Stop AI
https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-agi-before-127632638
Martha Lincoln: "It's Time to Pull the Plug on ChatGPT at Cal State"
Martha Lincoln on BlueSky
https://bsky.app/profile/heavyredaction.bsky.social
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