Adolfo Neto
@adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com
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Software Engineering researcher; Associate Professor at UTFPR, Curitiba, Brazil. adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com Posts mostly in English. #ElixirLang enthusiast (I also love #LeanLang, #LuaLang, #Erlang). Podcaster.
![[CITAÇÃO] Don't Ban AI from Your Writing Classroom; Require It!
NK Hayles
Poetics Today, 2024•read.dukeupress.edu
The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a game changer for college and university teachers worried about students using the remarkable linguistic abilities of large language models (LLMs) to pass off artificial intelligence (AI) writing as their own work. Of particular concern is the college essay, widely used in the humanities to assess student comprehension of complex texts, as well as to enhance their ability to create original, well-structured, and rhetorically effective written arguments. Stephen Marche’s (2022) proclamation “The College Essay is Dead” typifies the concern. 1 Others have rushed to defend the college essay (Rim 2022; Downey 2022; Roose 2023), with some professors arguing that AIs such as ChatGPT can only write pedestrian essays that might, at best, earn some kind of B grade, but not reach into the A range (Stacey 2022). From my point of view, these arguments miss the larger issues at stake in the natural language processing abilities of ChatGPT and similar LLMs. I suggest that their development should be seen as an opportunity to rethink the basic principles behind prohibitions against plagiarism and uses of the college essay to facilitate
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