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Andrew Heiss 
Finally created an official policy for AI/LLMs in class, both for writing and for coding (https://datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-bs.html)
And the coding side of things (https://datavizf24.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-bs.html#what-about-code)
Sharon Machlis@andrew Isn't mean(x, na.rm = TRUE) accurate R code?
@smach Yep, it is, but it's unusual to see it on students' very first exercise before we've talked about it or covered it
@smach Like, that's all completely valid code and it works, but they're learning tidyverse-flavored R, so it's unexpected to see read.csv, and the print() is superfluous, etc. I typically get 50% of assignments with that identical code, thanks to ChatGPT
Ken Butler has moved@andrew @smach I point out that the code students produce needs to be the code that I talked about in lecture, and I don't talk about read.csv at all (and not about na.rm in mean() until later), so they are *wrong* in the context of my course. (I started doing this during covid, when I wanted some evidence that the students were actually learning from me and not from some guy on chegg.)
@andrew @smach this I think is the key observation: students learning the stuff don't have enough baseline knowledge to understand whether the stuff coming back from chatgpt (or google or chegg) is any good.
I make a point that everything in my courses can be done using the course materials, with the exception of a few places where I explicitly ask students to look up something and report back on what they find (with a citation to where they found what they were looking for).
Garrick Aden-Buie@andrew it’s wild how much of a tell the comments are
Carlos Scheidegger@grrrck “Certainly! Here’s how you do it:” leaking over published academic prose is a bleak, bleak thing to witness.
@andrew these are great! I may be pointing my students at these.
ahistorical immaterialist@andrew haha, I've been using R for 20 years, and the third image is exactly the sort of code I write, with the exception that I wouldn't use read.csv. Comments on everything, explicit print statements, I haven't started using the new pipe because muscle memory, the whole deal.
Sam Crawley@andrew Thanks, I may steal some of this!
Alessia Visconti@SamCrawley @andrew Thanks for sharing, I'll use some bits of it also on my syllabus!
renebekkers@andrew thanks for this excellent example!
Morgan Pihl@andrew This is great
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦This might interest you.
I wrote it to basically plead with my university to get off the bandwagon.
They didn't really listen: you cannot convince people to understand AI when their salary depends on the AI hype
Jason Bryer@andrew @matherion This is awesome! Might need to dot add something similar to my courses.