I recently met with an artist working on a project that would promote arts education in rural communities. He was gushing about how ChatGPT had helped him write a grant request, enabling him to secure three-year funding. “For someone like me who isn’t very good at structuring my thoughts, ChatGPT is heaven-sent.” This story was in stark contrast to the rants of a fellow educator earlier that week. According to her, grading essays has been frustrating because students submit largely artificial intelligence-generated work (AI). She kept seeing the same fluffy phrases and poorly used qualifiers. While she wished her students had put in more effort to edit their work and make their essays more humanlike, we both concluded that their writing skills might not yet be developed enough to […]
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