The email is ominously titled "Final Reminder : The Importance of AI" and flagged "High Importance" when it's just an ad.
Rest of it goes on about how they got a wallstreet bro to come give a speech about "AI replacing 40% of the jobs."
Idk why a university likes AI this much either. They even overlook cheating as long as it involves AI.
Both students and graders tell each other they use it openly.
At first it felt weird I am complaining about free accounts and free speeches from investors but then it kinda clicked these are NOT free either. My tuition is paying for all of this.
Even the bus pass has a 5-day sign up process to "save money from students not using that service."
But somehow they just arbitrarily gave everyone multiple premium chatbot accounts anyways.
Am I just paying a 50% ransom to microsoft for my degree at this point?
Also the email is AI generated too. ITS FROM THE FUCKING DEAN.
One of the best approaches I saw was a teacher who assigned students to have ChatGPT generate a paper on a topic, and then write their own paper critiquing ChatGPT's paper and identifying the errors that it made.
I always thought challenging students to "trick the AI" would be a good assignment. Shows them how the system fails, and I think kids would enjoy tricking the ai
Sounds like it's time to bust out Gemini