IHE: Arizona St Partners with ChatGPT

[Wahoo Redux]

Can't predict what this means.

IHE: ASU Partners with ChatGPT

[Sun_Worshiper]

The article does not offer much, beyond that it will be freely available to faculty and students. Since it is only $20 a month anyway, this is not particularly meaningful on its face. Presumably the benefit to OpenAI is that they can train models based on how ASU folks are using it.

I'm sure there will be partnerships with more universities announced soon.

[hmaria1609]

While at American Library Assoc. (ALA) LibLearnX 2024, I attended a panel discussion called "AI & Libraries" this afternoon. This was mentioned by one of the panelists.

[Parasaurolophus]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

[marshwiggle]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

[apl68]

While at American Library Assoc. (ALA) LibLearnX 2024, I attended a panel discussion called "AI & Libraries" this afternoon. This was mentioned by one of the panelists.

Any useful takeaways?

[Sun_Worshiper]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Anyway, many (probably most) students are already using it, so it isn't like this partnership is introducing AI to students.

[Parasaurolophus]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

I'm sorely tempted, though that would take a lot more effort on my part than just answering. And I think the lesson would be lost on them.

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Ugh. In particular, what I resent is the pushiness/total obliviousness of our relationship that comes through. The result is invariably a demanding and entitled tone, like an employer telling someone that they fucked up and had better fix it, but under a veneer of weird obsequiousness. I hate it. Especially since it's the student who fucked something up and is now begging my indulgence.

I would also hate to receive an AI-generated apology.

[marshwiggle]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

I'm sorely tempted, though that would take a lot more effort on my part than just answering. And I think the lesson would be lost on them.

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Ugh. In particular, what I resent is the pushiness/total obliviousness of our relationship that comes through. The result is invariably a demanding and entitled tone, like an employer telling someone that they fucked up and had better fix it, but under a veneer of weird obsequiousness. I hate it. Especially since it's the student who fucked something up and is now begging my indulgence.

I would also hate to receive an AI-generated apology.

I'd guess that will pretty much sound like what politicians, celebrities, and other bigwigs have given forever.

[apl68]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

I'm sorely tempted, though that would take a lot more effort on my part than just answering. And I think the lesson would be lost on them.

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Ugh. In particular, what I resent is the pushiness/total obliviousness of our relationship that comes through. The result is invariably a demanding and entitled tone, like an employer telling someone that they fucked up and had better fix it, but under a veneer of weird obsequiousness. I hate it. Especially since it's the student who fucked something up and is now begging my indulgence.

I would also hate to receive an AI-generated apology.

I'd guess that will pretty much sound like what politicians, celebrities, and other bigwigs have given forever.

Was just thinking the same thing.  Institutional-style boilerplate apologies would probably be one of the simplest things to automate.

[Parasaurolophus]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

I'm sorely tempted, though that would take a lot more effort on my part than just answering. And I think the lesson would be lost on them.

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Ugh. In particular, what I resent is the pushiness/total obliviousness of our relationship that comes through. The result is invariably a demanding and entitled tone, like an employer telling someone that they fucked up and had better fix it, but under a veneer of weird obsequiousness. I hate it. Especially since it's the student who fucked something up and is now begging my indulgence.

I would also hate to receive an AI-generated apology.

I'd guess that will pretty much sound like what politicians, celebrities, and other bigwigs have given forever.

Yes. And I disapprove of it from them, too--but at least it's not directed to me personally. I'm talking about personal communications.

[Sun_Worshiper]

Oh, fucking great.

Meanwhile, I just got another AI-generated student email. And man, it sure makes me feel like shit. At least with ordinary spam I don't have to read it or do anything about it or reply to it as though it were a human being. But here, I very much feel reduced to just another thing in the student's life (as opposed to a person).

So did you send an AI-generated response?

I'm sorely tempted, though that would take a lot more effort on my part than just answering. And I think the lesson would be lost on them.

I use AI most days for some task or another, including writing emails, so I really can't get upset with students for doing the same. I worry about students using it as a crutch for their writing assignments, of course, but I'm all for letting it do mundane activities like drafting emails.

Ugh. In particular, what I resent is the pushiness/total obliviousness of our relationship that comes through. The result is invariably a demanding and entitled tone, like an employer telling someone that they fucked up and had better fix it, but under a veneer of weird obsequiousness. I hate it. Especially since it's the student who fucked something up and is now begging my indulgence.

I would also hate to receive an AI-generated apology.

That sounds obnoxious, but I would separate that facet of it from the role of AI, which can write a perfectly pleasant email. Of course, nobody should just fire off an AI generated email without reading/editing it, including for tone, but that sounds more like a problem with the user than with the technology.

Btw, you are perfectly within your rights to use AI to respond. You might find that it saves you a little time and hassle.

[Parasaurolophus]

I mean, yes, it's a problem with the user rather than the AI. So's the problem with cheating using AI. But that's the thing. That's who's using it, how they're using it, and what they're using it for. There just isn't ever likely to be any more careful use of it on their end, because that's not compatible with their reasons for using it.

As for me, I refuse to use it for personal communications. First, because I think it's disrespectful to do so, and second, because it wouldn't save me any time or energy on that front (it takes me less time to type 'I'm afraid that's not possible' or 'sure, that's fine' and the like than to generate the prompt). Mass communication is a different matter, because it doesn't have the same presuppositions attached.

[apl68]

I mean, yes, it's a problem with the user rather than the AI. So's the problem with cheating using AI. But that's the thing. That's who's using it, how they're using it, and what they're using it for. There just isn't ever likely to be any more careful use of it on their end, because that's not compatible with their reasons for using it.

Or to put it another way, artificial intelligence is a problem when people try to use it as a substitute for the real thing.

As for me, I refuse to use it for personal communications. First, because I think it's disrespectful to do so, and second, because it wouldn't save me any time or energy on that front (it takes me less time to type 'I'm afraid that's not possible' or 'sure, that's fine' and the like than to generate the prompt). Mass communication is a different matter, because it doesn't have the same presuppositions attached.

Pretty much my thoughts about it.  I'd be very annoyed if I got AI-generated e-mails addressed to me personally--as opposed to the sorts of form communications that have already looked computer-generated for years anyway.

[Sun_Worshiper]

I mean, yes, it's a problem with the user rather than the AI. So's the problem with cheating using AI. But that's the thing. That's who's using it, how they're using it, and what they're using it for. There just isn't ever likely to be any more careful use of it on their end, because that's not compatible with their reasons for using it.

Or to put it another way, artificial intelligence is a problem when people try to use it as a substitute for the real thing.

As for me, I refuse to use it for personal communications. First, because I think it's disrespectful to do so, and second, because it wouldn't save me any time or energy on that front (it takes me less time to type 'I'm afraid that's not possible' or 'sure, that's fine' and the like than to generate the prompt). Mass communication is a different matter, because it doesn't have the same presuppositions attached.

Pretty much my thoughts about it.  I'd be very annoyed if I got AI-generated e-mails addressed to me personally--as opposed to the sorts of form communications that have already looked computer-generated for years anyway.

I get it, to a point. Like I would never use AI to write a love letter to my wife, but I don't see anything wrong with using it for a message about logistics to a colleague or student.