I am woefully ignorant.
A week prior, I didn't know anything about ChatGPT. Then, seemingly overnight, this thing was everywhere and the dominos started falling. Educators started catching students cheating. The college counseling world had to take note as well. UCAS is abandoning the Personal Statement in 2024! While this decision is not based solely on the intrusion of AI, it has to - at the very least - be a compelling argument in favor of change. Some say, what's the point of having a writing requirement if the computer can do it for you? I, Robot, Black Mirror, Westworld, and M3gan all terrify me. The life we could have...it's here. But at what cost? Will we go so far as to abandon the teaching of formal writing? Will US colleges begin to ebb from essays and writing prompts in favor of alternative admissions requirements? The positive implications of such a tool are endless, but the negative cost could be just as vast, and infinitely more dangerous. The resources and impact of one little program have yet to be seen but, sure as the sun will rise, this new technology will have significant and lasting effects on the world as we know it. A Teacher Who Loves ChatGPT + Is 'M3GAN' Real? ChatZero - A way to sniff out bot-generated writing Colleges Rethink Writing - NYT A Stanford professor, a 4th grade teacher, a writing instructor, and author Judy Blume all could not accurately decipher every time the difference between a human essay and one by the chatbot. Well, not to toot my own horn here, but I was correct 10/10. I have read a lot of writing and felt there were certain components that felt right, one way or the other. Is this empirically based? Nope, just gut feel. Would I pull 100% all the time? Nope. And AI will only get better. Take the quiz for yourself and see how you do.
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AuthorOlder blog posts were for the UCLA Ext course "Using the Internet for College Counseling" Archives
February 2023
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