#ai in college

[projectilecry]

i keep seeing people everywhere sing the praises of ai and suggest using it for all sorts of things and it just makes me so sad and angry. college professors suggesting to use it. resume specialist suggesting using it to get your resume done. therapist saying they use it all the time for things. people saying it’s a legitimate accessibility aid. so many people who just have no criticism or qualms about ai. so many people who have been dazzled by it enough to not actually think about what it is and it’s impacts. at this point i’d rather people be actually educated about it but just disagree with me and not think that it’s a dangerous thing than have them just legitimately unaware. because at least then they know. they know what’s even happening. but so many people don’t, they just see some magic thing that can solve their problems without them having to think, and they use it. they don’t ever stop to think about what they’re doing or what they’re promoting. it just makes me sad.

[cottagecoreangryqueer]

I am feeling very pessimistic about people's researching, reading and writing abilities at high levels of education. I'm currently at university to study Translation and absolutely everyone I've met uses AI for everything. Yes, even the teachers. Every week there's people I see using AI to write their essays, to translate things, to explain the difference between x and y, to see if they should use x term or y term, teachers asking for the students to tell them what does AI say about x... Every fucking week. It's tiresome. Instead of learning how to do things properly, how to look for texts that exemplify what you want, how to use dictionaries from a bilingual approach, how to organize your thoughts into a well-formed and comprehensive essay, instead of any of that, it's just AI. And these are all skills that need to be learnt to know how to do these things properly, so if you always depend on AI for them, you'll never know how to do them by yourself. This is an awful situatiom without even taking into account the enviromental consequences that AI has. I fucking hate it here, I hate knowing that I'm the modern equivalent of a luddite just because I don't use this shit, but you know what? Maybe the luddites were fucking right.

[porcupine-girl]

An important message to college students: Why you shouldn't use ChatGPT or other "AI" to write papers.

Here's the thing: Unlike plagiarism, where I can always find the exact source a student used, it's difficult to impossible to prove that a student used ChatGPT to write their paper. Which means I have to grade it as though the student wrote it.

So if your professor can't prove it, why shouldn't you use it?

Well, first off, it doesn't write good papers. Grading them as if the student did write it themself, so far I've given GPT-enhanced papers two Ds and an F.

If you're unlucky enough to get a professor like me, they've designed their assignments to be hard to plagiarize, which means they'll also be hard to get "AI" to write well. To get a good paper out of ChatGPT for my class, you'd have to write a prompt that's so long, with so many specifics, that you might as well just write the paper yourself.

ChatGPT absolutely loves to make broad, vague statements about, for example, what topics a book covers. Sadly for my students, I ask for specific examples from the book, and it's not so good at that. Nor is it good at explaining exactly why that example is connected to a concept from class. To get a good paper out of it, you'd have to have already identified the concepts you want to discuss and the relevant examples, and quite honestly if you can do that it'll be easier to write your own paper than to coax ChatGPT to write a decent paper.

The second reason you shouldn't do it?

IT WILL PUT YOUR PROFESSOR IN A REALLY FUCKING BAD MOOD. WHEN I'M IN A BAD MOOD I AM NOT GOING TO BE GENEROUS WITH MY GRADING.

I can't prove it's written by ChatGPT, but I can tell. It does not write like a college freshman. It writes like a professional copywriter churning out articles for a content farm. And much like a large language model, the more papers written by it I see, the better I get at identifying it, because it turns out there are certain phrases it really, really likes using.

Once I think you're using ChatGPT I will be extremely annoyed while I grade your paper. I will grade it as if you wrote it, but I will not grade it generously. I will not give you the benefit of the doubt if I'm not sure whether you understood a concept or not. I will not squint and try to understand how you thought two things are connected that I do not think are connected.

Moreover, I will continue to not feel generous when calculating your final grade for the class. Usually, if someone has been coming to class regularly all semester, turned things in on time, etc, then I might be willing to give them a tiny bit of help - round a 79.3% up to a B-, say. If you get a 79.3%, you will get your C+ and you'd better be thankful for it, because if you try to complain or claim you weren't using AI, I'll be letting the college's academic disciplinary committee decide what grade you should get.

Eventually my school will probably write actual guidelines for me to follow when I suspect use of AI, but for now, it's the wild west and it is in your best interest to avoid a showdown with me.

[pfatter-university]

This weekend, Pfatter University hosted our Fall Art Topics Showcase, featuring the work of our talented student artists. Here’s some selections from Jeremy P., a Junior, who chronicled four students’ relationships with junk food throughout the course of their studies at Pfatter U, entitled: “A Well-Rounded Diet.” Enjoy!

[cowboymuscle]

[tartppola]

NRC!!!!!!! 💥💥💥

[dooblebrain]

Wow look at them all cozy and sleepy i bet nothing bad will happen to them

Drew these to keep descriptions for something I'm writing all squared off, but STILL I can't decide what the Frick bubby is wearing lol sorry dude you get the X of death

[mojinchiimanga]

[fure-dcmk]

With your Gosho Boys AU, what are the Gosho Girls up to? Equally crazy shenanigans?

this ask been sitting in my inbox for so long *holds head*

incredibly unrealistic im giving everyone crazy aspiration while being a college student here but whatever made up so many things but IF i am trying to make gag comic with the girlies i suppose it be something like this!! the boys got mysteries as something in common so i had to make up something them :)

I can't find where but theres an interview where gosho mentioned that ran's future has already been decided and foreshadowed. A theory someone made from this is Ran will be an actor (based on that episode where Makoto got hired as an actor) and then retires when she gets married to Shinichi to parallel Yuusaku and Yukiko. NGL i absolutely hate that retiring your successful career for a man part but whatever. Aoyama the misogyny king what else is new. What i'm trying to say is Ran that stars in a commercially successful Black Widow etc etc

[transmutationisms]

it is simply not possible to angst out about the spectre of human cognitive decline, or mental atrophy or whatever you want to call it, in any non-reactionary way. "will relying on ai cause our intellectual faculties to regress" congrats you are doing degeneration theory. let's unpack your views on disabled people

[demadogs]

some of you need to hate ai way more than you currently do

[jero-2tek]

At first he claimed the restraints were for a research paper but it soon became clear that he enjoyed it and luckily for him, his roommate was more than willing to continue playing along...

[martinsorbit]

Would Sun Fnaf doing ur homework count as submitting AI generated art

oh, the technicalities of it all.

[pfatter-university]

How do the new recruits react to their first couple pounds when they get on campus?

Our students start to see the effects of the calorie-dense dining hall food far before their freshman year starts. Most of them are shocked to find they’ve gained 15-20 lbs by the end of their incoming-student orientation! Here’s Landon and Nick, from last summer.

Our first orientation for the 24-25 school year ends in a few days. Wanna see the results? Let us know!

[mojinchiimanga]

[harbingersecho]

she should've been problematic at the club