Quote from: AmLitHist on April 17, 2024, 06:02:44 AMSomebody backed into my car while I was at work yesterday and didn't leave a note. The security cameras are disconnected because of all the construction near the parking lots. I probably have several thousand dollars' worth of damage. Yahoos.
Quote from: secundem_artem on April 17, 2024, 08:50:06 AMFinal decisions are soon to be made for who and what lives and dies here at Artem U. The atmosphere is a toxic soup of pain, anger, resignation, and finger pointing. Factions are being formed. Rumblings about the nuclear option - votes of non-confidence - are heard in quiet corners. Magical thinking abounds for possible solutions to what some refuse to believe is a crisis.
Quote from: apl68 on April 18, 2024, 10:02:59 AMQuote from: fishbrains on April 18, 2024, 08:35:25 AMStudents don't know that the words "delve," "tapestry," and/or "whilst" in an essay send professors straight to the AI-generation detector.
While that's understandable, it does seem sad for those students who read a lot and have unusually rich vocabularies. Although you may teach somewhere that doesn't have any such students.
QuoteAdmin announces job losses using ChatGPT-generated email
That's all. Can't give details for obvious reasons but we are sunsetting a program and there are job losses entailed. Upper admin sent out an announcement to the campus. Details were wrong. The voice was odd and not characteristic of the sender. There was nothing specific about the program being ended.
I put a prompt into ChatGPT to "write a memo to the campus community announcing the closure of X program due to low enrollment" and got a reply that was as close to identical to the memo as one can get with Chat — the same points in same order and oodles of identical phrases. Why the heck am I killing myself to hold students accountable for misusing GPT? It is stunning and insulting.
Quote from: apl68 on April 18, 2024, 07:26:52 AMThere's not any way for admins to prevent (or not) controversial speech and activism on campus when passions on an issue are running this high without seriously offending somebody. It's a no-win situation for them. I can't help feeling sorry for admins confronted with a situation like this, even if I don't agree with particular aspects of their handling of it. At least if they show some common sense in the process.