uncanny feeling: email exchange that reveals the interlocutor to be using AI over the volleys
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the tell is the sycophancy
please, never email me over my "summer break" needing a reply and using AI. new low sunk to
@inquiline 🎶we are reaching a new low, we are reaching a new lowwwww 🎶
@inquiline “summer break” omg. (Sorry for being a Reply Person to this exchange. I just feel it very hard.)
you could never be a reply person!! to me, anyway
i'm just sort of shocked at this even tho i oughtn't be. and dismayed. i was staying out of email more earlier in the summer but then this week some stuff i had to check on and now... this. bleak
@inquiline well, thanks 😃 This is shaping up to be a year of further teaching horrors, frankly. The AI bot that listens to and transcribes classes is now freely available to all students chez nous without notification to colleagues or professors—with a warning that transcriptions are not to be shared, ofc. Local media taking the line, “oh noes, this amazing tech will throw student notetakers out of work!” Turned down a radio interview wrt it this week because I (still) like my job.
@inquiline my classes are 100% discussion (“this prof doesn’t really teach”—disgruntled lecture-liker) and sometimes involve student disclosure. This can’t play out safely and I fear doing harm just by the content and good faith space I offer students.
ugghhh that's horrible. is it a conversation you can have with the class at the beginning of term? space of trust and having a different compact w one another than the admin is handing down?
@inquiline that will be taken as an attack on accessibility. This surveillance is being framed as levelling the playing field. (Like, I assess thought as developed method, not recall of “content.”)
undoubtedly super tricky but is there a way to thread the needle on making a collective decision after talking thru tradeoffs and benefits of different options? if someone needs a record for disability reasons, there should be a way; but there can't also be nondisclosure or nonrequest by that person/s. & they could be able to get needs met w/o inevitable AI tool as only option? maybe rotating notetaker & course points for that role/day? or if recording, ways to hit pause in real time?
@inquiline yes yes yes yes yes 👏
@inquiline well. of many new worsts.
"new worsts" is the (new) best way to describe the times we are living in
