J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: (she / her) :EA DATA. SF: on Nostr: I Taught for Most of My Career. I Quit Because of ChatGPT | TIME This is an excellent ...
I Taught for Most of My Career. I Quit Because of ChatGPT | TIME
This is an excellent essay on why learning how to write is more important than simply producing an output that matches a prompt.
And also touches on how few people actually care.
Many students seem to only want to create an output. They don't want to write. They don't want to do the thinking and muddling and experimenting.
The art doesn't interest them. Finding their own unique voice does not interest them.
I don't want this to be our future.
In my most recent job, I taught academic writing to doctoral students at a technical college. My graduate students, many of whom were computer scientists, understood the mechanisms of generative AI better than I do. They recognized LLMs as unreliable research tools that hallucinate and invent citations. They acknowledged the environmental impact and ethical problems of the technology. They knew that models are trained on existing data and therefore cannot produce novel research. However, that knowledge did not stop my students from relying heavily on generative AI. Several students admitted to drafting their research in note form and asking ChatGPT to write their articles.
#genAI #LLM #ChatGPT
This is an excellent essay on why learning how to write is more important than simply producing an output that matches a prompt.
And also touches on how few people actually care.
Many students seem to only want to create an output. They don't want to write. They don't want to do the thinking and muddling and experimenting.
The art doesn't interest them. Finding their own unique voice does not interest them.
I don't want this to be our future.
In my most recent job, I taught academic writing to doctoral students at a technical college. My graduate students, many of whom were computer scientists, understood the mechanisms of generative AI better than I do. They recognized LLMs as unreliable research tools that hallucinate and invent citations. They acknowledged the environmental impact and ethical problems of the technology. They knew that models are trained on existing data and therefore cannot produce novel research. However, that knowledge did not stop my students from relying heavily on generative AI. Several students admitted to drafting their research in note form and asking ChatGPT to write their articles.
#genAI #LLM #ChatGPT