“What are the positives and negatives of using ChatGPT (and other AI) in post-secondary?”
This is a question I need to answer for an essay competition thing, and while I do have ideas myself and from my professor when I asked for his opinions, I was hoping if anyone here had some insights to add.
Is it ethical that I ask for your aid? I don’t want to overstep. I would not use anyone’s name/usernames at all in this essay, at most I will cite sources on the matter.
While I think my current ideas about the pros and cons are good (more cons than pros in my opinion) but I want to know if I missed anything.
If needed, I will add what ideas I’ve come up with so far but for now I’ll leave that out.
Edit: I was tempted to post this in the “Ask Lemmygrad” community but I think thats a more educational community about communism specifically so I’ll stick to asking here.
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for me the arguments would be mostly negative because:
using it does not train your research skills
using it does not train your creative and academic writing skills
it is often just wrong when synthesizing text
so to me those are major cons in an educational context
some positives would perhaps be:
it is useful as a phrase bank, as it can quickly give ideas on how to put words together.
it is alright at giving direction when starting research, sort of like wikipedia
thats all i can think of so far
Don't forget about the privacy and copyright concerns. Scraping the internet for training data, copyrighted or not, and also logging every input for this purpose (and probably others).
A pretty significant con in my opinion.
Copyright is one of the cons I have written down but I never thought of the privacy issues with AI…
Most people don't. Convenience is more important than privacy for most people, can't blame you.
I'm just a paranoid tech geek. So this is usually the first and strongest concern for me.