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AI Training Data Ethics and Cultural Appropriation Concerns

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14 April 2024 23h38

Dear God make it stop. Say it with me – “AI uses human data.” So if “it” ever exhibits knowledge it’s already an aggregate of stolen data, IP and creativity from humans. Also – Maslow’s hierarchy was built on Blackfoot First Nations wisdom and has been miscommunicated.

AI Challenges to Academic Essays and University Admissions

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14 April 2024 19h17

Deleted a thread on how admissions essays are no longer useful as it was being interpreted as an attack on essays in all contexts, and writing instructors were getting upset (which, if that is what I meant, I would get) There are lots of challenges poised by AI to essays, though

Admission Essays No Longer Useful in AI Era

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14 April 2024 19h12

I deleted the original tweet because I don’t want this sort of willful misinterpretation of what I was writing about (which was admission essays are no longer useful) to spread.

Writing Teachers React to AI and College Admission Essays Context

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14 April 2024 19h06

I was trying to figure out why many writing teachers seemed so annoyed at this tweet and realized they weren’t reading the context. I am clearly referring to college admissions essays. Sigh. I think I need to delete this.

AI Impact on College Admission Essays and Education

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14 April 2024 19h00

ADMISSIONS essays are dead, geez. I don’t claim to be an expert on writing education. Pretty harsh.

AI Writing Quality Compared to Human Writing Standards

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14 April 2024 16h26

Agree on both counts. But this was also a really simple prompt without any attempt to do multiple interactions, etc. AI writing is not near as good as good human writing, but it does beat that of a large number of people, especially when they haven’t been taught to write well.