I do not gather these links to say that Generative AI has no value or utility, only that perhaps we don’t believe the hype.

This first batch of links are entirely me going back through my Messages with Dr Kimberly Jaxon, who is dealing with Generative AI in many courses where text represents the artifact that is required to complete an assignment.

Not new, but relatively new to me. I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity.

Simon Wardley, of Wardley Maps fame, has been absolutely on fire lately. Do you use ChatGPT for search?

Camille Fournier has entered the chat. Things I Currently Believe About AI and Tech Employment

Speaking of text-based artifacts, here’s a fun thread on a study of human success at detecting AI generated writing.

Not sure how I can not include a fart joke at ChatGPT’s expense.

What if it’s most grift and this particular grift is draining funds from the California State University? via Dr. Cat Hick.

Neal Stephenson, one of my favorite authors, when to New Zealand and said some words. Remarks on AI from NZ

I follow conversations among professional educators who all report the same phenomenon, which is that their students use ChatGPT for everything, and in consequence learn nothing. We may end up with at least one generation of people who are like the Eloi in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, in that they are mental weaklings utterly dependent on technologies that they don’t understand and that they could never rebuild from scratch were they to break down.

You know jwz has had enough. College student asks for her tuition fees back after catching her professor using ChatGPT

I really enjoyed Hazel Weakly’s post, Stop Building AI Tools Backwards.

How do I keep up? I don’t. This is but a fraction of a fraction of a tiny minuscule of the words and hang-wringing (including my own!) that are flying around the internet. I take advantage of Listen Later to covert long articles and PDFs into mp3 for podcast feed consumption. Yes, it uses AI…like I said, I don’t deny the utility.