What should professors do about AI generated papers? When I returned to teaching from a sabbatical last year I noticed that the students in my general education history classes suddenly learned how to write. Were they using ChatGPT to write […]
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A colleague asked ChatGPT to “summarize John Fea’s critique of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump for president”
One of my colleagues in the Messiah University English Department asked ChatGPT to summarize my critique of evangelical Christians who support Donald Trump for president. Here’s its response: John Fea, a historian and author, has been a vocal critic of […]
Grading robots?
I am heading back to the classroom in August after a year-long sabbatical. I am wondering just how much has changed since I left, especially in terms of student use of AI. Here is Beth McMurtrie at The Chronicle of […]
What is your AI policy? A Penn professor explains why he doesn’t have one.
Everywhere you turn these days professors are talking about how to handle students who use ChatGPT to write their papers. Over at The Washington Post, historian Jonathan Zimmerman explains why he doesn’t have a policy on the matter. Here is […]
College president delivers a graduate speech crafted by ChatGPT
After delivering a ChatGTP graduation speech, Wells College (Aurora, NY) president Jonathan Gilbralter said: “Before I end this address, I have a confession to make. I want to let you know that everything I just said was written by artificial […]
Coverage of AI and technology-gone-rogue at Current, Arena, and Way of Improvement
A wise reader, Stephen Kamm, remarked earlier this week after reading Elizabeth Stice’s essay this Monday: “A thoughtful piece, and we need many thoughtful pieces on this topic. I’ve adopted the “shut my eyes and pretend it doesn’t exist” approach […]
Get ready for more of the Mandela Effect
“The Mandela Effect” is a term to describe a strange cultural phenomenon. Sometimes there is something which a big number of people seem to remember, only it apparently never happened, or it was different than we remember. The classic example […]
What does artificial intelligence mean for writers?
I have largely ignored all of the debate over ChatGPT (“Generative Pre-training Tranformer), the artificial intelligence program used to generate prose. I have largely ignored it because I am not ready to come to grips with the fact that a […]