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spravinchandra.bsky.social
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Academic, Postcolonial Studies, Short Story, Health Humanities
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chancebonar.bsky.social
Draft of an AI statement for future syllabi (building on what others have done & shared)
Generative Al Statement: The goal of this course is to help you improve as thinkers, scholars, and community members. The use of generative Al and LLMs (including Chat GPT) is antithetical to these goals. I strongly encourage you not to use generative Al to complete readings or assignments. There is growing evidence that the use of generative Al facilitates labor exploitation of workers in the Global South, causes severe local and global environmental damage, relies on stolen labor of writers and artists, fails to provide accurate information or citations, and may be causing a microgeneration of students to struggle to think/write critically and become less employable after college. Beyond all of these, generative Al-written papers are (more often than not) poorly argued, woodenly and generically written, and obvious to humanities professors. This course aims to help us practice the acts of critical thinking, analyzing, discussing, producing knowledge, and engaging with the communities in which we live. Accordingly, I ask that you embrace the difficulty of that process rather than attempt to outsource these skills. At the same time, I am not interested in attempting to surveil you through Al-detection software because this creates a hostile classroom environment between students and their professor. College is a time for you to decide who you want to be and how you want to engage the work set before you.
May 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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brewergnome.bsky.social
This is why the way capitalism and business want you to think about education has always been not just wrong but disastrous.

Education - as a whole - is not to teach you to "do a thing" and shouldn't be. It's about learning to think, to problem solve, to learn, to research.
willpoe.bsky.social Will Poe @willpoe.bsky.social · May 14
If chatgpt can do a college level course better than a student... what does that say about the standards of the degree... and the usefulness of whatever they are teaching... the only point I'm trying to make... is we need a total rethink on education...
May 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM