Fellow educators:
1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.
Screen caps from some spam I received just now:
You are confused. I hear echos of when I was told as a kid that calculators were cheating, when they should have been teaching me how to build my own and how to use them well.
You should teach them how language models work and how to put them into their workflow.
The important part is the quality of the output, if you don't know what you are doing your output will still suck, even with a language model.
Language models are just Photoshop for language, that has implications, but if you avoid interfacing with them, you will be outclassed.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Do better!"
Arguments people make when they have legs to stand on.
Correct that schools shouldn't waste money trying to figure out if students are cheating with chat GPT. Incorrect when you say they shouldn't use it period. Language evolves, this is actively useful.
The number of people I have talked to about chat GPT who are certain they know what it is but have not actually used it is... Nuts. A month of using it and one will find uses, and if they don't, they have no imagination. (Language models in general but currently chat GPT is the best that I know of)
With caveats about capture of language models and the dangers of that. Given that so many people love apple, and don't smack around Facebook or Google... I have little faith it won't be captured again.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
🅱🅻🆄🅴🅱️
Anthony