Based on my anecdotal conversions with my peers in the humanities, there remains a lot of skepticism, fear, and even anger over AI. They didn't ask for it, they don't know how to use it, and yet they have deal with its use by lazy students, administrators, and peers.
Students see no issue using AI to complete their assignment because they have been conditioned to treat schooling as a means to a capitalist end and not a tool for acquiring knowledge. The proliferation of AI is just making this very explicit for those who didn’t already know.
"We must, then, avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance."
The degree to which I am treated as something between a curiosity and a zealot by colleagues at both institutions where I teach, because I insist that AI has no place in the writing classroom, is dismaying. But I’m not blinking first here.
Hinahanap ko asan dito yung 'academics' na grabe mag-push ng AI sa university. I think most apt yung slop creators but I really prefer the term "fucking hacks"
Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.
I miss the world before AI more than I miss the world before the pandemic. I hate what it’s doing to publishing, job markets, schooling, and the internet. It’s made people question every piece of content they see. I’m tired of reading about it, seeing it, or thinking about it.
Please, I'm begging you, try to critically examine the differences between these two pieces of writing.
ChatGPT editing did not improve this. Every single change only served to weaken your claims significantly. Everything is now hedged into oblivion: no longer have you outlined a "problem," now it's merely a "flaw." "It is true" now demoted to "it appears to be the case." "Is" gets a "usually" tacked on. A thesis statement at the end of the first paragraph gets run over by noisy, out-of-context example-whittling. All for fear of being misconstrued.
And at the end, the argument that gets spat out isn't even yours anymore! You argued that Graeber failed to create a true account of work because he did not understand Chesterton's Fence. ChatGPT is arguing is that it is possible some apparently bullshit jobs could be secretly load-bearing if you squint. These are two different statements. The second is weaker and less compelling. It says less. And it's fucking longer!
Don't do this anymore! Stop doing this! It's worse!!!
Sabi ko dati the reason why I hate online classes ay dahil may tendency na mag-off yung klase dahil sa problems like panget na device or mabagal na internet. Pero as a dalawang beses nasiraan ng classroom this sem, di na ako sure na exclusive yun sa online class.
the way american “catholic” converts make my raised-catholic-turned-atheist ass start talking like a staunch traditionalist about the doctrine and papal authority