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Maybe academics don’t want students using plagiarism machines, and instead want them to produce work from their own minds.

Former educator here (from long ago). AI is death Death of truth Death of thought Death of creativity Death of trust Death of the environment And sometimes, literal human death I make every effort to avoid AI, and would work doubly hard to do so if I still taught.

The most valuable conversations around AI begin with asking what your incentive is to promote an oligarch scam for undermining education and manipulating control whose data centers are imperiling the planet's climate. Students want to learn, not be forced to rely on fascist tools.

I'm dreaming of a world where CHE was a leading voice advocating for teaching and learning rather than being a mouthpiece for these Lex Luthor wannabes

AI experts.

The only way an "AI" can deliver an insight is if they stole it from someone else who actually had the insight. (or I guess if a random word soup they create happens to have insight while hallucinating)

I want them to learn how to kick AI to the curb. That’s what I want. Because I care about them and I care about higher ed and because I care about democracy. Get with the program.

Okay well they're obviously not education experts now are they

do you think it may be possible that "AI experts" have some skin in the game and aren't to be taken as anything other than advertisers?

Shut da fuck up

Think critically, vet sources, and learn. Not sure AI enables any of this.

We want the students to learn to think for themselves, a process in which "AI" has no place.

Yes and the things I want them to learn don’t require AI so stop bothering me about it!

There aren't AI experts in the sense you are using it.

Please eat shit

Slop merchants. You're now part of the problem.

This "article" needs a "Paid Content" disclaimer.

Skynet doesn’t understand why people don’t like it…

It'd be great if we had higher ed journalism that didn't, you know, hate the people working in higher education.

1. Get AI the fuck out of education. 2. See number 1

Clearly we should defer to months of expertise.

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This week in the midst of the Canvas s#itstorm, you are suggesting we embrace another for-profit, data-mining technology that is not accountable to faculty or students and has next-to-no opt options? Inquiring minds want to know.

Let me stop you right there at 'what tools'. 😉

I think the conversation starts with plagiarism, environmental disasters, eugenics, exploitation, slop, and how AI is antithetical to everything an academic should stand for.

Fuck AI, fuck "AI 'experts'", and fuck you for platforming them. No one working in AI has a viable pedagogical theory, because they only care about spreading and embedding AI in everything so they can make more money. AI is a "tool" whose only purpose is to weaken and destroy.