A bit of a let down to finally get to talk to Jane Austen and hear the plot of her new novel.

Absolutely worth talking about the future of the college application essay. But also: this ChatGPT- essay is generic, could easily have been written by someone with no experience of being the child of carnival workers, and reads like it finishes with no memory of where it began.

'Tech companies could run through the high-quality data on the internet as soon as 2026, according to Epoch, a research institute. The companies are using the data faster than it is being produced.' nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

Latest in my series, 'A writing teacher's feedback on your tweet.'

Jane Rosenzweig The blog post is definitely still on their site: openai.com/research/bette… This was a splashy blog post at the time, and I teach now to ugrads as a kind of history of genAI/LLMs. They pick up on the shift in attitude at OpenAI, for sure!

Jane Rosenzweig We had an ethics case study on that, authored by Subbu Vincent: scu.edu/ethics/focus-a…

One of my students was reading about GPT2 and learned that in 2019 OpenAI decided not to release their model out of fear that it could be misused. I followed the links and couldn't find their statement on their current website, but found it archived. Interesting read.

Looking forward to an internet flooded with more AI-generated content like this.

April 5 is the deadline for our institute, AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice, June 3-7, for KC metro area secondary and college humanities teachers! Stipend for participants. More info & application in the link. hallcenter.ku.edu/aidl

Tried out AI-generated tweets. Thinking this isn't going to go viral.