askchapo

To put it shortly, a good persuasive essay in academia often expects an attempt at presenting "both sides." If I wrote this essay I would include some bits about "some speculate that AI could do x,y,z, which could be beneficial if true, but at what cost?" And then go into all the problems with ai. Closing paragraph something like "so while some promote ai as a positive thing for x y z, we see that these things aren't actually happening and the amount of detrimental issues that ai manifests in exchange for a promise of future return isn't worth it" kind of thing

Ultimately you are only supposed to be graded on the merits of the essay and not if the professor agrees with your conclusions so if there is a grading issue in that regard you could contest the grade with the dean or whoever runs the department

*Not real advice, sorry*

In these situations I always prefer malicious compliance. You can list the benefits such as:

• Eliminate the dependence on human ingenuity and problem solving skills
• Dramatically reduce the labor force needed
• Provide either reliable homogenized results OR shocking results that no human would ever think of (both good things!)
• Free up time allocated for actually performing the task for doing the real, important work of securing funding and contracts
• Enhance shareholder value of fossil fuel and private water firms
• etc.

Your grades and recommendations from professors matter a hundred times more than an essay everyone will forget about as soon as it's graded. You and the professor are the only ones who will ever read it so it's not like you're doing any material harm with it anyway. It's pointless and it sucks but that's being an undergrad

Yes you should absolutely lie your butt off for the grade if you're an undergrad. Just absolutely let the bullshit flow. But also put forward "the other side" (I.e. the truth) because that's usually also part of the test. But lie, lie all you need to. They don't care, you're not going to be convincing the grader.

Make it a game and write the most sycophantic disgusting bullshit just to see how big of a freak your instructor is. Write shit that only a moron could agree with and see how high a grade you can get.

Did they specify that you can't write about benefits and drawbacks? I guess if the assignment is specifically about writing positively even when you disagree, like many people have to do for their jobs every day, then I'd say just do the assignment and move on with your life. I barely remember anything I wrote about in college, and I probably disagree with half of it now.

If you aren't willing to do this for a grade now, grad school is gonna be rough. At least in my program, it was very much about giving the profs what they wanted and not what you wanted. They're basically training you to be part of academia, which requires a lot of keeping your mouth shut when you don't want to and jumping through hoops for grants and such.

I'd suggest just talking to the prof about the assignment and maybe they'll say it's cool? I wouldn't recommend going outside of the assignment unless your GPA can handle it. Grad school applications tend to be highly competitive and if this class is in your major, it's gonna be weighted more heavily

Does the assignment have a maximum character/page limit?

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.

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