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Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…
If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…
Weekend Links
. . . are mostly sad: Tim Zinnecker (here at the Faculty Lounge) and Elizabeth Nowicki (at Concurring Opinions) on the death of Tulane law professor Brooke Overby (1960-2009). Larry Solum (at Legal Theory Blog) and Chris Bertram (at Crooked…
Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.