16: Artificial Intelligence and College Writing — Read

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16.1: Template Phrases for Reflecting on AI Feedback
Reflecting critically on whether AI writing feedback is useful to us can help us clarify our own purposes.
16.2: Template Phrases for Critiquing AI Outputs
AI text generators/large language models like ChatGPT often produce plausible-sounding text. Browsing these phrases may help students identify and critique problems with bias, accuracy, relevance, and clarity.
Acknowledging and Citing Generative AI in Academic Work
If your assignment allows use of AI and you choose to use it, describe how you interacted with it, and include it in your list of citations.
AI Copies Patterns; It Doesn’t Think
AI text generators copy patterns from the text they are trained on.
Don't Trust AI to Cite Its Sources
Chatbots sometimes spout ideas developed by particular human writers without mentioning those writers. Then can also misrepresent their sources since they don't really "know" what informs their responses.
Student Essay Critiquing a New York Times Article on the Dangers of AI
Lily Raabe discusses Yuval Noah Harari's call for concern about AI's potential harmful impacts on human culture, democracy, and wellbeing. She finds his argument compelling but lacking in evidence.

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