ELBOW ROOM

This is where I collect and write things, mostly on academe and artificial intelligence. Established in 2010, by Vaishak Belle.

  1. How good is ChatGPT at writing English essays? As an English teacher of 15 years I've been playing about with it and I think we need to pay attention to this. ⬇️ 🧵 — Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick) December 14, 2022ALT

    Not just detecting plagiarism, but more generally, seemingly sensible text just drawn from past examples, makes this problematic also from the data it takes “ideas” and snippets from. The music industry has found some ways to deal with sampling (although issues exists, eg recent Beyoncé songs pulled from her album), but the art and text industry still needs to catch up in terms of copyright and consent. In line with poem from yesterday morning.

    Dec. 19, 2022