I loved this article by Professor Piers Gelly on “what happened when I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT”:
“Like many teachers at every level of education, I have spent the past two years trying to wrap my head around the question of generative AI in my English classroom. To my thinking, this is a question that ought to concern all people who like to read and write, not just teachers and their students. Today’s English students are tomorrow’s writers and readers of literature. If you enjoy thoughtful, consequential, human-generated writing—or hope for your own human writing to be read by a wide human audience—you should want young people to learn to read and write.
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At the end of the semester, they would decide by vote whether AI could replace me.”
I’ve upgraded the N-dashes in the blockquote above to M-dashes. I’m told this has become a tell-tale sign of the use of large language models. I take it as a sign that even if my writing isn’t the greatest, at least I’m doing something right.
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