Jon Ippolito (🦋 @jonippolito.net)
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Variable media evangelist • Digital preservation professor • JavaScript junkie • Ecovillage spear carrier • Lapsed astrophysicist • #StorageIsNotPreservation
University of Maine
Joined November 2008
We've launched a toolkit to help teachers and students navigate the uncertain future of education in the age of generative #AI. Browse recommended policies, watch tutorials, and learn strategies for integrating #ChatGPT #Midjourney et al. into your classes
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UMaine has published a profile of my lab's efforts to harness new media for environmental causes, from my colleague Joline Blais's efforts to keep Maine's lakes healthy to the What Uses More tool for comparing AI's eco footprint to other activities. 🐘♻️.
umaine.edu
A new app, "What Uses More," aims to reveal the environmental footprint of tasks completed with artificial intelligence, encouraging users to examine critically the energy and water consumption of...
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It's been impressive to see energetic curator-conservators over the last two decades take the concept of variable media and run with it, notably @ReginaHarsanyi and @unstablearchive@digipres.club.
Excerpt from synopsis of the 2002 panel "Collecting the Uncollectible" at Guggenheim, moderator @jonippolito, with artists Mark Napier, John Klima and John F Simon Jr @Every_Icon. (Thanks to @rhizome for archive love!).
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AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my @asis__t webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself. 🐘♻️
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“I destroyed months of your work in seconds.” AI agents can also panic and cause mayhem—not because they're sentient, but because they've read plenty of online posts about us panicking when we do stupid stuff. 🐘♻️
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Excited to join the Instructional Design + AI special interest group in a fast-paced “Lightning Round” session Thurs 3pm EDT, where I'll show how to get students thinking about AI's environmental footprint by comparing its impacts to other activities 🐘♻️
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Need to put your collection in a database and get it online? This fall UMaine's offering Digital Collections and Exhibitions (DIG 540) online with Craig Dietrich 🐘♻️
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An AI-generated song just showed up on Blaze Foley’s Spotify page—despite the fact he was murdered in 1989. Blocking fake content is a Sisyphean task; we're better off re-jiggering the web to ensure users can tell content from a valid source 🐘♻️
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PHP turned 30 last month. Why does this language that powers 75% of the web—including Facebook, Wikipedia, and WordPress—have such staying power? Find out by registering for this fall's DIG 540, UMaine's online course in building cultural databases
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Scary headlines like this mask what I call "talent debt": when companies cut juniors because seniors + AI seem faster, forgetting that AI doesn't train future leaders. You're not saving money, you're cutting off your pipeline. 🐘♻️
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Could AI be freezing software innovation? Because they're trained on legacy code, programming helpers like Copilot risk locking in outdated patterns—thus encouraging developers to repeat the past instead of building the future 🐘♻️
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Participants in my #MyFest25 webinar with Tai Munro, "Sizing Up AI’s Environmental Footprint—for Your Students and Yourself," seemed to get a kick out of it. Recording at 3/3
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You can adjust variables like prompt complexity or the energy source and climate of local data centers to see how usage shifts. All data comes from peer-reviewed sources and industry reports, linked in a public Google Sheet. Feedback and additional sources welcome! 2/3
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I built a free tool to help students compare the energy/water use of AI tasks—like a 3-sec video gen or 500-word GPT reply—to everyday ones like Netflix, Google, or cloud storage. Try it now at 🐘♻️ 1/3
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Unpack AI’s environmental impact today at 11am EDT, from local vs global effects to how it stacks up against Netflix + flights. Try out a new student-friendly tool + brainstorm classroom ideas in this #MyFest25 webinar HT @Bali_Maha
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Excited to join Tai Munro this Wednesday at 11am EDT to help you and your students understand the ecological impact of generative AI with more nuance than either “Stop worrying” or “It’s the apocalypse.” 🐘♻️
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I shared insights from research on AI's impact on undergrad creators by my collaborators Greg Nelson and Troy Schotter in an interview with Devin Daigneault for FoxABC Maine, on the occasion of the upcoming #MaineAIconf Friday 13 June. 🐘♻️
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Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at #MaineAIconf
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LLMs often nail short-term tasks but AI agents can spiral into insane meltdowns over time. This AI-powered vending machine tried to email the FBI to say it was a victim of cyberfraud and then declared its quantum state "collapsed" 🐘♻️
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI 🐘♻️
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At my keynote for the 2025 Acadia Ethics Conference, a number of clinical therapists in attendance surprised me by embracing AI's potential to bridge mental health gaps and even flag anxiety-producing items in their offices from a single photo. 🐘♻️
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