@trendless Two weeks ago a colleague posted to the faculty (small uninversity) listserv their concerns about genAI and higher ed. Within minutes a Very Positive Colleague (who I actually like quite a bit) posted a Very Positive Correction. They said that these concerns are overblown, and that some of them (copyright, use of work, etc.) were simply not true because all AI companies had committed to respecting personal and corporate copyright, private material, etc.; even if they hadn't made this high-minded commitment, it would be literally impossible for AI bots to get around firewalls or get into government data not meant to be public, and the energy use and labor concerns, well, "research" had apparently shown that genAI uses very little electricity and hasn't really been responsible for any of these job layoffs...I stared at my screen for probably two full minutes having one of those "whaaaa..... um.... ggggggg....." reactions in my locked-up brain. I then typed what was supposed to be a small, polite reply but ended up being two or three paragraphs, with lots of links. Anyway, this is a story to a stranger about how yet another colleague will probably never speak to me politely again.
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