The Campbell Academy Blog (85)

No AI was (ever) harmed in the making of this blog

OpenAI is now prolific.

My son is using it extensively to do his project homework at school.
Much of the project will have to be submitted on paper (ridiculous), but that makes it almost impossible to check for plagiarism.

It would be possible to scan the pieces of paper into a computer and then put it through software checking for AI plagiarism, but there is no chance that a state school that the one my son goes to will have either the manpower resources or the IT resources to do any of this.

I have seen the computers that the teachers have.

What amazes Callum is that a lot of his classmates won't take the time to learn how to use GPT-4 (he is now quite the expert in this).

He doesn't submit verbatim; he just gets it to cut out 80% of the work and then finesses the project, which makes it much better than it would have been when he had done it.

He has to read the text entirely and understand it but generally has to dampen down the complexity of the text so that it suits a 16-year-old (this is mental, isn't it?).

We chatted on the way to school today, and he told me the whole format of how it works because he knows that I understand that his ability to use GPT-4 and OpenAI will be a skill he will use for the rest of his life.

That said, though, there is an alternative to this, and not everything should be written in AI because it almost entirely removes the human aspect.

And so, for the first time, but for every time moving forward, I will reiterate the point that I will never ever use AI to write this blog.

I will never ask it to generate thoughts or opinions on my behalf.

I will always produce this day by day the way that I have always done, and if I change my format, I'll tell you.

No, AI will ever be harmed in the production of this blog.