I am so. Pissed. About. This. Glad to hear you are as scathing as I am! I also did a faculty feedback process and said exactly what I think of teaching students to use enshittification machines in a purported institution of knowledge. My god. What an absolute travesty that EDU licence thing is.

at my uni there are some schools/divisions that have decided everyone has to lean in to enshittification machines - my faculty is not there (yet?) - most of my immediate team are on one page that we should do everything we can to keep the monster at the (closed) gate.

the med school situation you describe makes me want to scream and tear my hair out. Like the sheer scale of generational damage - to knowledge and memory and critical thinking as well as the planet - is fucking unspeakable.

yep and otherwise smart people saying well students use it anyway. But what me and others who resist the slop are seeing is the increase in student ai use correlates with institutional steps to legitimise it. Then those who lean in are praised as innovative and resisters just have heavier workload.

that’s the exact sense I get from uni management types who are buying into bullshit like ChatGPT EDU. Do they know they are paying billionaires to give billionaires our students creativity and intellectual labour without consent? How can they not?

jeezuz and the rest are shilling it? God that is so depressing 😬

Jess Harwood art (via insta) nails it🎯

I read something recently that laid out how the ethical scientists working in what was then machine learning had their funding dry up while the pentagon threw billions at the world domination build a genie grifters. I might try to find it again.

it is exactly who and what they are! Take this abomination. Or you know set it on fire.

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one colleague had 26 ai interviews this week. I had five, but would have easily spent the equivalent of 21 student interviews time making critical ai literacy teaching resources. The workload is IMMENSE. And the uni is also stealing casual teachers’ time - MORE, AGAIN - by refusing to recognise it.

white man FOMO to kill the planet. What a shit fucking deal.

“I hate the waste, the loss, the destruction, the theft, the damage to our planet, and the sheer excitement that some executives and writers have that workers may be replaced by ai - and the bald faced fucking lie that it is happening” - Ed Zitron

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it’s okay to hate everything about GPTs. Ai is mass damage and completely pointless unless the point is to dumb down all of humanity while the planet warms exponentially faster because billionaires have decided everyone should be groomed, stolen from, and lied to.

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“there is a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin… the machine is disgusting and we should break it” - Anthony Moser

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it is a colossal fucking grift by the absolute worst people in the world and there is no excuse for the university executives who give our students’ money and the legitimacy of our institutional reputation to the pervert billionaire sector.

I mean my takeaway was a piss weak “crackdown” from Mr crackdown himself but yeah that too.

non-performative speech acts are a helluva drug.

criminalisation is for poor people.