“They’re using AI because it’s a simplesolution and it’s an easy way for them not to put in time writing essays. And I get it, because I hatedwriting essays when I was in school,”
Motivation to get good grades vs motivation due to efficiency or laziness
Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot.
AI being context dependent?
“Massive numbers of students are going to emergefrom university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,”
It's not like the workforce is checking to make sure all of your work is authentic
“My grades were amazing,”
There is a pressure from everyone to have good grades (university, parents, self, future job/ college) so there is always a drive to do well no matter what. How could you change this do reduce the motivation to use AI?
Lee thought it absurd that Columbia, which had a partnership with ChatGPT’s parent company,OpenAI, would punish him for innovating with AI.
Kind of sounds like SDSU. How is AI supposed to affect or not affect our work if it is given to us for free by the university and we are encouraged to use it by the university
people need to struggle with a topic to succeed
also, people need to struggle to make it worth something
editor or curator.
placing the user in the position of an editor instead of a creator
can solve some PhD-level problems, but it can be hard to know whether its answers are useful without being an expert yourself.
why use it at this point
Our new AIs have been trained on a huge amount of our cultural history, and they are using it to provide us with text and images in response to our queries.
it shows us what we expect to see
we still default to what we know well.
AI is only as creative as we are?
knowledge of that heritage
what kinds of knowledge about what kinds of heritages? do certain people have better access to these than others? is this where biases come into play?
learn and demonstrate your understanding.
learning and forming opinions by writing them down
replicate and amplify biases;
i hope we can study these biases more in class
The AI product cannot take responsibility,
I don't know if I completely agree with this because AI presents information as if it is completely true. I agree that the work you submit is your responsibility, but AI isn't just used ot complete homework.
Every prompt is wasteful at a time we need to live more sustainably.
Sometimes I wonder why this alone isn't enough reason for people to stop using AI.