the curiosity deficit
Warning: this post makes a brief mention on suicide. Read at your own risk
Recently, I had a project where I had to create 60-second audio script, and we were allowed to use AI. My professor did a demo of a test script involving a dog. It disturbed me that he found what a robot spit out so heartwarming.
Why are tools like generative AI being pushed on to students? Aren't I in school to learn how to think and ask questions? I don't think "If you can't beat them, join them" applies here.
That is not someone's original work. The machine skimmed the creme-de-la creme and the bottom of the barrel of written works to 'write' something trite and formulaic.
I can even go as far to say that access to AI may be putting my peers in danger.
AI addiction is a serious problem, and it's hard to quit when it's becoming so socially acceptable to keep using, even in the classroom. Adam Raine may have died because of ChatGPT, as it offered suicide as an option six times more than Adam himself.
He started using GPT as "homework help".
How can you look students in the eye and go, 'ya AI is fine for your assignment worth 25 percent' after hearing that?