Matt Seybold
Resident Scholar @ Center For Mark Twain Studies | Host, The American Vandal Podcast | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies @ Elmira College | Lit & Econ
- While I want to think further about how AI enclosures are racialized (they are at the training level, certainly), I think treating public expenditure & forced adoption of AI as anti-literacy policy is imperative. They want to leave the next generation with nothing to offer but their obedience.
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldAs goes the library, so goes the entire project of higher education, and, in ways that are unclear to a lot of even very attentive faculty, there has been a budgetary war on libraries RAGING since 2009.
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldWhen people were getting their loans forgiven, I was saying that they should be PUBLIC about this both because it happened BECAUSE of organizing and also to alert others it was possible. Now if you are in default, BE PUBLIC [don't be shamed into silence]. This is an organizing opportunity.
- The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldIf class sizes were smaller, if teaching loads were lighter, if precarity weren’t a thing, then maybe instructor would have the capacity to address A.I. in humanities education. But that’s a lot of ifs.
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldOne thing to consider is what education would look like if it were free with no grades and no punitive frameworks that make learning about fear.
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldSo many of these students, when asked why they use ChatGPT to write or code, answer that it helps them get good grades. Meaning, there's an entrenched belief that the purpose of school, of assignments, is the grade. So maybe the first step in eliminating ChatGPT is eliminating grades as assessment.
the technodystopia is here nymag.com/intelligence...
- This is pretty good. It does mention how ChatGPT usage is closely tied to academic calendar, but not the crucial fact that OpenAI advertises discounts on TikTok/Insta during exam seasons. It’s playbook disruption. They are positioning themselves as solution to crisis they created.
- Reposted by Matt SeyboldIt’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.
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