Hi educators of the Fediverse! I regret to report that I am developing syllabi for the fall semester. I feel the need to add a statement on generative AI, and I'm interested in what others are doing/thinking about this. If you have a statement you'd be willing to share, I'd be grateful. Here's my current draft:
Use of generative AI tools (ChatGPT, e.g.) to assist you with your work for this course is off-limits for at least two reasons. First, developing your scientific writing and critical thinking skills is part of what we're trying to do here, and relying on someone or something else to do that work undermines your development as a writer and thinker. Second, the large language models on which generative AI writing tools are built are trained on the writing of other people, and they offer no way to cite the sources of the writing they produce.
(This is followed by a standard paragraph on plagiarism.)
