I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Promoting decent use cases for a specific technology, yeah.

Acting like genAI is "the future" and insulting anyone who isn't part of your tech cult?

Fuck off into the bucket.

It's a trap!

ICE, CBP, DHS - it's all the apparatus of fascism and bigotry. It was always an unnecessary extrajudicial police force and I'm frankly sick of Democrats only pretending to care when it's the other party doing it.

I also am now convinced the "attempt" on Trump's life was also a hoax. And that Epstein didn't kill himself.

I used to be extremely skeptical of claims like this, but it just piles up a little too nearly for him at this point, and for the other people named in those files.

The regime has been caught in too many lies, too many illegal killings, too many scandals, too much blatant corruption.

At this point I pretty much have to assume that the entire US government is compromised and corrupt enough to do something like this.

There's a certain solipsism in this conviction a lot of people seem to have that consciousness is just language and mimicry.

Like they suspect that every human being is really just a machine that speaks.

Fucking ew

May his money burn

If that inevitability is true, and not (as I suspect) a bunch of flim-flam that people will eventually be embarrassed for embracing so completely, I will happily be left behind.

I don't want to spend my time learning "prompt engineering." That sounds fucking awful. You all can have fun with that.

I regularly have conversations in my department and the university as a whole with people who think that anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly use ai is going to be left behind and unable to compete in the job market.

And maybe that's true.

And enthusiasts are going to be extreme evangelists because they more or less literally believe this technology is God.

They will get really bothered by even mild disinterest and put a creepy amount of effort into convincing you that it's both inevitable and that you have to use it.

Like, cool, you can look up recipes using exactly the same number of steps as you would to find a recipe prior to chatGPT existing, but also you get the benefit of the same companies helping to build a totalitarian surveillance state.

Also we're going make climate change faster.

And possibly, as a historian desperately trying to get my students to engage in close reading with the text itself rather than summaries, I'm a little biased against the supposed "efficiency" of letting a machine do your reading and, by extension, your thinking for you.

There's nothing "superpowered" about using chatGPT to do a search for you that you could have done yourself, especially since you have to go back and double check its work anyway.

That is not "efficiency."