P.S. to my post this morning about Artificial Intelligence

P.S. Plagiarism — yep. Using AI for homework might be plagiarism. My policy was “It’s your funeral. You plagiarize you don’t learn what you are here to learn, but that’s your call. I’m not going to hunt down your work and have an embarrassing office hour with you, but I will know whether it’s your work or not.” You can imagine that this stunned most of my students. I would do the same for AI. 

P.P.S. AI will never love writing. Its reading will be nothing more than “harvesting.” AI will never love teaching, either. Idealistically, perhaps, I believe that humans will always love those things. And why? I’m sitting here with a hundred books people have written. AI? Maybe, but probably not. Some of them are obviously works of love. Some are works of both inspiration and love. It’s magical what we humans can do. 

Not just that, I’m editing my fourth article for Colorado Central Magazine — a paper periodical (and online) that people actually subscribe to and read. The editor is a young woman, in her late 30s. Most of the contributors are in her age-peer group along with a bunch of writers younger and older — people my age and older! Some contributors write about introducing their small children to hiking. Others write about what it was like when the railroad was big in the West. She is the magazine’s third editor. It’s been around for something like 50 years. None of the articles are written by AI. It’s obvious.

Featured photo: Me at San Diego State with the first edition of Martin of Gfenn, the photo was used by a Swiss newspaper to illustrate an interview.