“No warning—canceled, the hosts let go, thecommunity members left to consider what, exactly, happened to their home (Brown 1999,“Netscape to Community: You’re Evicted”)
despite a seemingly, consumer-centric platform, the real power is still in the hands of the company. The company's decision to shut down a community page goes to show their inconsideration and elitist perspective over their consumers, despite their "community-driven" actions
The digital age has permitted the public to exercise self-expression (via writing) in a way unimaginable in prior generations.
interesting dichotomy between a writers attitude in writing for an intended, intellectual audience vs an unintended audience; while writing for the blog, okolloh is focused on capturing her feelings/emotions however, she claims to be introverted when a book opportunity is presented
then fact-check and revise that draft can be an excellent way to help students practice critical thinking skills.
connect to Antonio Byrd Literacy Crisis piece
Inboth cases, the benefits are wildly exaggerated
AI's promised innovation only benefits those that bias is in favor of
“If they want to try something out, they ask us, and we have a decision-makingframework based on our values and our principles,” Jones says.
Maori people were able to surveil and protect their data from big US tech companies by having the power to decide who does/ does not receive access
Our data would be used by the very people that beat that language out of ourmouths to sell it back to us as a service,” Jones says. “It’s just like taking our land and selling it back tous,” Mahelona adds.
US tech companies have little interest in letting Maori people reconnect with their native customs , but instead, offer this "privilege" at a steep cost
that they’re tested on those without thechoice to opt out;
good point; everything established on public domain is up for AI "grabs", the user does not get to contextualize or opt-out of their contribution to AI's "knowledge" forum
If we filter out the discourse of marginalized populations, we fail to provide training data thatreclaims slurs and otherwise describes marginalized identities in a positive light,
filtering out negative perceptions of marginalized groups may create erasure
“The training data hasbeen shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypicaland derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity, and disability status,”
in this way, AI is a reflection of the biases in our society so we are to blame
instead of fighting their way through that and growing from it, they retreat to something thatmakes it a lot easier for them.”
suggests a future of cognitive offloading
But she’d rather get good grades
suggests a pedagogical flaw; valuing a grade letter rather than the cognitive challenges and experience that it takes to write an essay unassisted
“I’m against copy-and-pasting. I’m against cheating and plagiarism. All of that. It’s against the student handbook.” Then shedescribed, step-by-step, how on a recent Friday at 8 a.m., she called up an AI platform to help her writea four-to-five-page essay due two hours later.
dissonance in students' anti-AI morality but submitting to it anyways
“It’s short-circuitingthe learning process, and it’s happening fast.
AI use intercepts critical thinking processes, and is doing so at a exponential rate
I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
many students gravitate towards AI because it is time efficient