Dan Hassler-Forest
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
- Reposted by Dan Hassler-ForestAll AI writing reads like Joey's writing in Friends after he's discovered the thesaurus
- After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵
- I finished my deep dive into that extraordinary 20-film "Frank Capra at Columbia" box set today with the documentary MR. AMERICA, which featured especially insightful commentary by the wonderful @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social. 👍🏻 www.sonypictures.com/movies/frank...
- I read some student papers this morning that had used ChatGPT to "improve structure and phrasing." The problem is that these students unfailingly mistake bland and generic writing for "better" writing and end up submitting essays that have been Frankensteined into unreadable garbage.
- Reposted by Dan Hassler-ForestChatGPT might be destroying education, but on the plus side it's losing hundreds of billions of dollars with no realistic profit model in sight AND it's hastening climate change.
- no contest
