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salve Reader! I have recently noticed some people adding spelling mistakes in an attempt to make their AI writing look human. If it is you, I am sorry to say this, but it does stick out like a sore thumb! In the same vein, I have heard from students asking AI to make their AI crafted essays look more natural by imitating what a younger learner might produce. (OK, a confession: I love my dashes and I have dramatically reduced their use to ward off any AI suspicions, so we are all perhaps acting a bit weird here) Luckily (well, not necessarily luckily, as I have set out clear expectations) I get original work from my student that gets evaluated by me, a human. It is, however, not too far fetched to imagine that some AI created work gets marked by AI. Dystopic. So, with this panorama around me, I have finally taken the plunge and put together a bit a policy so that you are aware of where I use, and where I do not use AI. This is pretty much a work in progress, and it will change as tools develop and my understanding of their costs, both human and environmental, improves. As you will be able to read in my latest blog post, you can be sure of the following:
I hope we can all keep an open mind in a time of such technological upheaval, and I include myself in this. À propos, yesterday I spent some time writing a Latin story about a man turned donkey, which was a fabulous way to work on fluency and create something fun to read with my students. But I digress (as humans do)...
What do you think? Is my 'policy' what you were expecting?
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salve Reader! I hope you open this email while enjoying a well-deserved break over the summer. I am writing from my hometown myself, just hours before I head off to France, then back to the northern coast of Catalonia for my yearly holiday. Yes, there will be diving and ancient ruins, so here is a heads-up that I may take a bit longer to reply to emails. This has been quite the week for me. One of the highlights was observing an almost total eclipse with my children and experimenting with the...
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