'I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff': professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

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33. We have good reason to hate and oppose the tech lords who released generative AI tools and

are pushing very hard for people to use them. Those AI peddlers all knew their tools are based on theft of intellectual property. They went ahead with the theft and are continuing to steal IP anyway. They all knew genAI hallucinates and knew that would cause a lot of problems. They released it anyway. They knew it would enable and encourage all kinds of fraud, from non-criminal fraud like student cheating and people pretending to have done work they didn't do and have talents they don't have, to very serious criminal fraud including attempts to undermine elections. The tech !ords released it anyway.

I don't understand why anyone would use such unethical tools, unless forced to by school or work. It can appear to save time if you accept the AI results without checking carefully and fixing all the problems, but usually if you factor in all the time to check and correct, you haven't saved much time and may even have wasted more time using AI. I don't understand how any of the people who know AI was trained on stolen IP can feel comfortable using it - don't know how they shut off their consciences or convince themselves that flawed tech is so important that stealing from and hurting all those people was necessary.

I don't know how they can feel comfortable with the fraud of having AI generate fake writing or visual art or music for them. It isn't THEIR work - they didn't create it, and they learned absolutely nothing by having AI generate it for them. There's so much satisfaction in real creativity, and it's a constant learning process that adds something real to the world. Using AI just adds slop.

It's like they're selling their souls for slop.