I've noticed a big shift toward, "We should be teaching kids how to cite AI."
That's antithetical to citations. A citation points you to the original source. Citing AI is effectively erasing original sources in a misguided effort to "teach students how to responsibly use AI tools."
Responsible use is teaching people that AI tools are plagiarism machines. Period.
Ok, likely unproductive response, but what the actual fuck!
Is this the education system still getting to grips with Wikipedia and the internet maybe being not entirely irrelevant and so applying the same degree of acceptance of Wikipedia to AI?
Or is this corporate propaganda?
Or just desperation at not know what to do anymore as tech disrupts traditional education structures (a real problem I’d wager)?
Either way, citing AI is just dumb and betrays someone who’s confused about AI
@maegul@brianb I read this as "techbros are selling the 'AI is inevitable' hype HARD" and people falling for it. They're acting like it's here to stay forever, so we need to accept and get used to it.
Makes sense. But still, seems like a quick capitulation which implies there’s more perceived heft behind AI. In part I’d say because it actually looks convincing and that traditional assessment is actually disrupted by it.
My bias here being that I suspect it a largely good thing that AI does disrupt traditional educational assessment as it likely reveals the superficiality in education that AI achieves.
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