Toddo 5d ago

The CSU has a contract for all students at all 23 campuses to get a free ChatGPT account. Today my university shared this draft of our Writing Center website. There is no way around it. The CSU has given up on education. There is nothing about this that is writing anymore. At most, this is a very low level skill of command prompting a machine. No text produced by students can be used for any educational purposes nor used to assess learning ever again on campus. And I will refuse to assign writing and I will absolutely not be forced to read and evaluate machine generated texts. Fuck. This. Shit.

https://sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/aiwritertoolbox/ai-for-writing

AI Writer Toolbox - AI for Writing

Overview AI platforms can be useful when used as supplementary tools during the writing process. This section will cover when and how AI can be incorporated into different stages of the writing process, from planning to drafting, with a focus on strategies for prompt engineering and getting

Show threadTanquist5d ago
@toddo
For as long as I can remember, for-profit software has been free or extremely cheap for universities. It makes sense - get students hooked on the software, and they'll have to pay for it later. In addition, if the software is needed to make use of research deliverables, the organization paying for those deliverables also has to pay full price for the software.
I'll bet OpenAI charged nothing for these accounts, and the university said "Yay! Free stuff!"
Show threadKevin Karhan 

@tanquist @toddo previsely that is why #Microsoft, #Adobe, #Oracle, #Cisco et. al. are basically handing out free #licenses (or absurdly discounted bulk licensing deals) to #education institutions given they don't teach competing technologies (i.e. #Linux, #Affinity, #PostgreSQL & #tnsr in these cases)...

  • And I wish I was joking but this is the sad truth!
Apr 22 at 5:41amWeb