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I have an assignment due in a seminar class that asks me to write an essay about AI. This wouldn't be an issue, except they've specified that I must write about the benefits of using AI in my chosen field and how it might advance the field-- plus I must also USE AI to complete my essay. Being in a field that values creativity and thinking outside of the bounds of normalcy, I fully disagree with the use of AI since it would actively steal the coolest parts of my future career.

So here is the conundrum: do I bow to the machine for a good grade since I'll be applying to graduate school soon, or tell the truth about how I feel about AI?

(Written by my partner)

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[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

Say "here's the prompt I gave to the AI and here's what it spat out." Then write about how beneficial everybody else falling for that obviously stupid bullshit that will be for you when you're the only one who can think for themselves in a creative field.

The AI either works poorly and is an idiot trap that will hold back the mediocre people into an indistinguishable mass of median output slop and allow talented people to separate themselves more easily, or it's going to be good and completely subsume all human input which would make thinking about it at all kind of a moot point.

Then hope the provost agrees with you when the dumb fucking idiot professor fails you.