Laurie Cubbison

Specifically I’m thinking about GenAi as source user and patchwriter.

Cue Philip K Dick

I find myself groping toward a rhetorical theory that gets at these issues from our field‘s perspective. I’m not very far along IMO but I’m trying to articulate how LLM writing is distinct from how novices and professionals write.

Having a disability or chronic pain is not only about limitations when you can't do something. It's also about the price you are paying for doing something.

Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?” “Nonsense. Yo...

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 1

"I have to believe that once the storm settles, there will be rebuilding of some sort. Whether it's private money that's already out there, or incredibly pissed off new money, or things will be restored, or what, I don't know…”

Good advice from Hax on the arts and all.the.other.shit: part 2

"…but there's a lot of talent and conviction and organizational chops hitting the streets in the next few days, weeks, months. Something will coalesce…that's what people do. They regroup because they can't help themselves."

I would agree. Is there an obvious difference in how they use their social media to promote their work?

What would you say is the genre difference between writing on Bluesky and Threads?

This is a must-read: @marthawells.com on AI and slavery.

We think we should be all that but secretly believe we’re nothing but irrational and non rigorous.

It still can’t do it. It can identify the type of source it is, but it can’t evaluate according to criteria. It can only tell what criteria to use.

I want my students to see the limitations for themselves. Only then will they resist the temptation.

I had students try to use AI for source annotations, but it could only recite how one would evaluate sources without being able to read and evaluate them itself. The mismatch was obvious.

I’m with you. I’m at a regional comprehensive and all our issues, not just AI, are neglected with the focus on the Ivy League.

Earth as seen from the moon

Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/a...
Again saving for my next time teaching AI in film and literature

Saving for the next time I teach AI in film and literature