ChatGPT, AI-Generative Tools, and Education...my turn...

Estimated Reading Time: 25 minutes I know...I know. Everyone has their thoughts on ChatGPT and I'm coming to the party just a little too late. That's fair--I largely respect that. But I haven't been idle in my thinking or working around ChatGPT during this time (some folks know if you've been reading my weekly updates) and definitely have some contributions and thoughts for this discussion. Before we begin-begin, I am drawing upon the work of Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos' idea about properly acknowledging the problematic use of ChatGPT with the following statement: This presentation/paper/work was prepared using ChatGPT, an “AI Chatbot”. We acknowledge that ChatGPT does not respect the individual rights of authors and artists, and ignores concerns over copyright and intellectual property in the training of the system; additionally, we acknowledge that the system was trained in part through the exploitation of precarious workers in the global south. In t...