Gongol.com Archives: June 2025
June 30, 2025
Defense Department and NOAA to break data sharing
At least on the surface, this seems like a taxpayer-hostile development with no evident gain
The suggestion arises that academics ought to disclose whether or not they used artificial intelligence in their work. Especially in cases where academic integrity is an issue, some kind of disclosure should probably emerge as a norm, since it's often unclear and non-transparent (even to the user) on which data sets the artificial intelligence was trained.
There's truth in this observation from Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins: "The danger isn't just that people believe lies. It's that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can't be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn't just distort truth, it breaks trust."
