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Is your chatbot editing a well-known educational journal? i have doubts
Academics should not sound like flawed AI.
I have long had a sneaking suspicion that AI robots built by DARPA are editing educational research journals. Are you crazy? Well, that would certainly describe a respected person Educational Research ReviewAn annual call for proposals for ‘equitable education systems that promote prosperity.’ (It's due this week, if you're curious.) What I mean is, this call is clearly the work of a poorly trained AI, and it's just like the “editor” explains they're looking for. . .
Academic research that provides a critical perspective on educational equity and grapples with the ambiguities, paradoxes, and tensions associated with its conceptualization and historical and everyday applications. . . [and] The many ways in which we conceptualize equity to formulate strong, multifaceted justice and advance policies and practices that build the capacity of institutions, families, and communities in which children and youth reside.
“Why is DARPA testing AI bots in educational journals?” bite. Okay, now. Publications are already incomprehensible and no one reads them. It's a truly innocuous place to test flawed technology. But in this case the “editor” Educational Research Review I fell. They wrote an extended 7-page project description presenting the game. By taking it verbatim, you can have that much material to see if they write like a human being. . . Or flawed AI. (To quote Dave Barry, “I’m not making this up.” Really).
This is raw AI, right? Maybe the early version of ChatGPT was flawed? You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to doubt that living, breathing humans created these things.
Look, while I hear arguments being made that little-read publications are innocuous places to test flawed AI, I think that's naive. It is important to pursue education, truth, and understanding. And we honor those through clarity of speech and thought by enabling readers to grasp our meaning, evaluate our arguments, and evaluate our assumptions. Transparency promotes healthy discourse and constructive debate.
Incomprehensible word salad plays a very different role. Sow confusion. It obscures vague claims. Treat words as lack marks. And in the process, it divides the world into those who have learned the shibboleth buried in distorted jargon and those who have not. You know, maybe I'm wrong that we're dealing with low-level AI here. After all, this is exactly what sophisticated, malicious AI seeks to do.
Uh oh.
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