@IAmDannyBoling @GossiTheDog

Thanks. The alt text situation on Mastodon is generally better than on many other platforms, but it has been slipping a bit.

#NotHypothetical

You have four percent battery on your laptop, it’s refusing to charge, and it’s almost 48 hours since your last backup. What do you copy off first? #NotHypothetical

Update. This fear is coming true.

We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/

"Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a #ChatGPT detector coming from #Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble."

#AI #NotHypothetical #Plagiarism
@academicchatter

Analysis | We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student.

Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a ChatGPT detector coming from Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble.

Washington Post

Update. Found in the wild: A peer-reviewer used #AI to write comments on a manuscript. The AI tool recommend that the author review certain sources, when nearly all of the recommended works were fake.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7046083155149103105/

#Misconduct #NotHypothetical

Robin Bauwens on LinkedIn: A reviewer rejected my paper, and instead suggested me to familiarize… | 101 comments

A reviewer rejected my paper, and instead suggested me to familiarize myself with the following readings. I could not find them anywhere. After a control in… | 101 comments on LinkedIn

#Parenting101
#adults vs #children

Picture this:
4- or 5-year old kid hits head on the corner of furniture. 😭 Mom gets ice and tries to apply it to the head bump. Kid cries like crazy 😭 , refuses the ice. Mom just stands there, 🙎 with ice cubes in a towel in her hand, and just looks at the kid.

Comments. What say you?
What can you do?
What would* you do?

#NotHypothetical