SepoyAug 17, 2024
Carwil Bjork-James

As it's syllabus writing season again, here's my informed take on why students should *not* use large language models for social science writing.

I took the time to try prompt engineering in response to my own assignments, and it led nowhere good.

https://woborders.blog/2023/08/23/why-im-banning-ai/

#LLM #academic #teaching #syllabus

Why I’m banning AI-generated text from my indigenous rights course

Okay, so I did the research and thought about it. This has been the leading exhortation for faculty on managing the likelihood that students will use generative AI tools to write papers in their cl…

Carwil without Borders
Aug 17, 2024 at 2:56pmWeb
Show threadDoctor HistorianessAug 17, 2024
@Carwil thank you! This is super useful.
Show threadMatthias KrämerAug 17, 2024
@historianess @Carwil Very good applicable to historic-critical disciplines, too. We always try to find ways to transcend the conventional discourse and find a new angle, new questions, new argument, and that seems to be missing in LLMs.
Show threadJesse CohnAug 17, 2024
@Carwil this is so right on. Thank you for writing this.