whitneyDec 16, 2022

It is SUCH a weird time to be a #writing professor whose background is actually in #ComputationalLinguistics and #CognitiveScience.

SO much being written about LLMs and what they mean for first-year composition and I end up doing a lot of explaining/debunking with colleagues, but they’re not wrong to worry. The collision of these LLMs and students whose pandemic high school years left them underprepared for college is…creating a really complicated environment for these #pedagogy conversations.

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*MY* biggest worry is that the Reverse Turing Test scenario where students are accused of using AI and have to “prove” they wrote it is going to disproportionately impact English Language Learners and speakers of marginalized varieties - they’ll be the ones most under suspicion. The cop shit we do around that is already really toxic and I fear it’s only going to get worse as universities try to stamp out the use of these tools.
Dec 17, 2022 at 12:21amWeb
Show threadDJ Dr. MaitxinhaDec 17, 2022
@writerethink For me the more suspicious ones (I teach Spanish) are the ones who suddenly write like a Spaniard and are well versed in all subjunctive tenses. My students don’t write like that, so it is easy to detect as of now
Show threadDr. Angus Andrea Grieve-SmithDec 17, 2022
@maitxinha @writerethink The biggest tell for me one time was how sophisticated the Spanish tenses were ... in a French assignment