Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)Really lovely piece.
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Current AI models work with snapshots of what was on the internet circa 2022. These sources in turn foreground older, already heavily cited sources. A feedback cycle that drives model collapse.
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Like, I can tell you that across Canadian universities the productivity expectations for writing studies instructors have increased—e.g., in the form of student numbers—and they are not reasonable.
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So I think it can be too corrosive to teach students to read and write that way. A misapplied hermeneutics of suspicion, perhaps, which should be better directed, used in more productive ways.
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Sandstead & Kibler, "Voice in L2 Writing in the Age of AI" build on Matsuda and think about how chatbot and human voice can be conceptualized in distinction from each other. With pedagogical implications added on.
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Redirecting
Redirecting
For those who missed it. Eric Kaufmann—widely known for propagating the concepts of "great replacement" and "great awokening" as well as for supporting various race science networks—recently spoke as a witness at this Canadian House of Commons committee.
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Interesting story. About one hoax. And then another.
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„You can trick AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini into teaching you how to make a bomb or hack an ATM if you make the question complicated, full of academic jargon, and cite sources that do not exist. That’s the conclusion of a new paper.“
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PS: Part of my motivation for spending serious amounts of time figuring out how to teach in deep alignment with research in rhetorical genre theory, pragmatics, applied language was that I used to overhear senior teachers say that doing so is too intellectually challenging for students. 8/
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I mention it because I see the paper getting downloaded quite frequently. But otherwise, we've not seen traction. Not sure why. So, if you have reason to read it and if it fits into your work, we'd be quite excited about seeing it cited. :)
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