I'm curious why ethics is not mentioned in any of your tips or instructional suggestions. Shouldn't students at least consider a) the fact that Chat GPT was trained on words and art stolen from writers and artists, and b) the fact that there are distinct biases in material generated by Chat GPT? Shouldn't they know that when you enter something into Chat GPT to summarize or whatever, you've now given it to Open AI? Did the writer expressly give permission to use their material in this way; what does the copyright or Creative Commons license? It would be interesting for students to put themselves in others' shoes: when they've written their masterpiece, will they be ok to have AI take it, chop it up, and spit it out in what people now call "AI slop"?
If you care about the environment, shouldn't you consider how much energy was used to run the AI, so you could take a shortcut? If you care about workers and decolonization, shouldn't you consider the invisible "ghost" workers who labor in horrendous conditions so you can get a quick answer?
So many thought-provoking questions to consider before choosing to use generative AI tools?
These are excellent thoughts! I have written about ethical work in other places, specifically in an OER book called "Introduction to AI and Ethics in Higher Education." In this post, I focused specifically on using these tools and how to use them productively.
As I hope is also evident in my other writings, I believe that using copyrighted works to train generative AI tools is fair use.
That being said, I include insights on Copyright and AI in my Copyright chapter of the above mentioned book. I also include insights on preferring OA resources in my presentation "Creating and Using Custom AI Tools."
If you would like, I can link to your work regarding these issues! I always include links to outside work!
We'll have to agree to diagree that Fair Use, designed to let teachers use materials in the classroom, gives billionaires the right to steal my writing and artwork without permission or compensation. Do they pay their engineers? Their lawyers? It is just the writers and artists who get stiffed, while the integrity of their work is destroyed.
I generally write about research and academic writing, but the seeing my work taken to be chopped into bits means I can't stay silent.
I'm curious why ethics is not mentioned in any of your tips or instructional suggestions. Shouldn't students at least consider a) the fact that Chat GPT was trained on words and art stolen from writers and artists, and b) the fact that there are distinct biases in material generated by Chat GPT? Shouldn't they know that when you enter something into Chat GPT to summarize or whatever, you've now given it to Open AI? Did the writer expressly give permission to use their material in this way; what does the copyright or Creative Commons license? It would be interesting for students to put themselves in others' shoes: when they've written their masterpiece, will they be ok to have AI take it, chop it up, and spit it out in what people now call "AI slop"?
If you care about the environment, shouldn't you consider how much energy was used to run the AI, so you could take a shortcut? If you care about workers and decolonization, shouldn't you consider the invisible "ghost" workers who labor in horrendous conditions so you can get a quick answer?
So many thought-provoking questions to consider before choosing to use generative AI tools?
These are excellent thoughts! I have written about ethical work in other places, specifically in an OER book called "Introduction to AI and Ethics in Higher Education." In this post, I focused specifically on using these tools and how to use them productively.
As I hope is also evident in my other writings, I believe that using copyrighted works to train generative AI tools is fair use.
That being said, I include insights on Copyright and AI in my Copyright chapter of the above mentioned book. I also include insights on preferring OA resources in my presentation "Creating and Using Custom AI Tools."
If you would like, I can link to your work regarding these issues! I always include links to outside work!
https://edtechbooks.org/introduction_to_ai_and_ethics_in_higher_education
https://reedhepler.substack.com/p/navigating-artificial-intelligence?utm_source=publication-search
https://www.learningrevolution.com/custom-ai-models
We'll have to agree to diagree that Fair Use, designed to let teachers use materials in the classroom, gives billionaires the right to steal my writing and artwork without permission or compensation. Do they pay their engineers? Their lawyers? It is just the writers and artists who get stiffed, while the integrity of their work is destroyed.
I generally write about research and academic writing, but the seeing my work taken to be chopped into bits means I can't stay silent.
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