In the 2014 World Cup, footballer Luis Suarez ran across the pitch and, off the ball, bit Giorgio Chiellini in the neck.
It was one of those absolutely WTF moments where you can't imagine what someone could possibly be thinking.
I call these sorts of choices "Luis Suarez moments."
Until I suffered an unfortunate stint in a higher education administrative role, I had no idea that this sort of thing was so common off the field as well.
Not biting, mind you. Just absolute WTF actions.
This past week, an administrator at Vanderbilt University had a very serious Luis Suarez moment.
You see, it fell to them to write the students a message of support in the aftermath of the MSU mass shooting. They somehow decided that it would be a good idea to let ChatGPT write the message for them.
And then, with perverse scrupulosity, they ADDED THIS TEXT TO THE EMAIL:
“Paraphrase from OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pocharaponneammanee/vanderbilt-email-chatgpt-ai-msu-shooting
@ct_bergstrom I can’t get past how many layers of approval are normally required for these things. Either someone(s) thought a statement of this magnitude didn’t need to go through all those layers, or multiple high-level admins ok’d this before its release.
Neither option is particularly easy to sit with.
Carl T. Bergstrom
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