Priscilla’s look in this episode is DRAG, incredible

So jealous!

Picnic at Hanging Rock is so bloody good - I didn't realise it was an adaptation!

GenAI cannot produce something original, it can only regurgitate what has already been written somewhere else by someone else - the humanities essay will survive and continue to be necessary as an assessment form precisely because of this reality.

I’m not based in the US and can’t speak to the assessment model there, there have always been students that have plagiarised / cheated and not been caught - the loss will be felt in the fact that by cheating they have actively de-skilled themselves and will struggle in further study / the workplace.

Thanks for sharing, I’ve read this article and had read your previous post, the point I’m making is that genAI does not produce ‘excellent’ writing, it produces a certain kind of average writing. So the situation of brilliant students living in fear doesn’t correlate with my experience as a marker!

In my experience of marking student’s work genAI doesn’t produce writing that is “too good”, it produces writing that is sleekly average and generic, so it’s not so much a Damocles sword as we may think. It’s mainly frightening for students that are cheating!

Two things can be true at once, ChatGPT does overuse em dashes and a lot of our undergrads don’t tend to use them in that way - so their presence (along with lots of other things) can indicate genAI use. I don’t think the implication is that every use of the em dash is genAI… but LLMs do love them!

World Picture! We're hosting in Amsterdam this year so I'm slightly biased, but love the journal and the conference - relatively small so the conference experience is really lovely, and super theory-oriented worldpicturejournal.com