Michael Feldstein,
Jul 19, 2021
The paywalled Times Higher Education article in question here, says Michael Feldstein, is "an unenlightening mess wrapped in clickbait packaging," but " it is a near-perfect illustration of how the popular representations of both artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating can be harmful." What follows is an extended discussion of cheating, defined here as "engaging in behaviors that are intended to facilitate passing without learning", and John Ross, the human author of the article, "and the mental algorithm he employed to write this piece, which I will call Journobot 2000... a set of mental shortcuts that John Ross employed to avoid the hard work of thinking and learning when writing parts of his article." In the case of this article, "Journobot 2000 has assembled a series of quotes and facts related to the topics of AI, writing, and/or cheating in some combination." Feldstein makes the case quite well, I think, for example, confirming with one of the interviewees, Jesse Stommel, that his quote in the article was given months ago about a different topic.
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