Personal websites used to send people elsewhere. This is my lazy attempt to do the same. These are articles, papers, and websites I found interesting or wanted to find again. I did not write any of them. I will eventually clean this up.
AI, writing, and education
Academics are kidding themselves about AI
Ten suggestions for better criticism.
AI essay writing reveals problems with universities, not students
Disclaimer: not written with AI.
How AI undermines academic norms
An argument that current academic practices no longer ensure high standards.
Critique of Pure Reasoning Models
A review of reasoning-model performance and the standards used to evaluate it.
Can Good Writing Be Generative?
Expert-level AI writing emerges through fine-tuning on high-quality books.
Experts preferred human writing in 82.7% of cases under the in-context prompting condition, while 62% preferred AI writing after fine-tuning on authors’ complete works.
The AI Paradox in Academia: When Writing Too Well Raises Red Flags
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
Maggie Appleton on chatbot sycophancy, user passivity, and systems designed to challenge users.
New College Board Research: Faculty Express Near-Universal Concern That Student AI Use Undermines Original Writing and Critical Thinking
Fluency Illusion: A Review on Influence of ChatGPT in Classroom Settings
Exploring How AI Literacy and Self-Regulated Learning Relate to Student Writing Performance and Well-Being in Generative AI-Supported Higher Education
Writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less
Are we teaching students AI competence or dependence?
From Plato's ‘Literacy Crisis’ to Generative AI: What Writing Studies Can Teach Us Right Now
Beyond Detection: Rethinking Education in the Age of AI-writing
Academic Integrity and Teaching With(out) AI
Universities and research
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Hannah Shelley on problems with Google Scholar search and indexing.
Some Wikipedia citations to retracted papers persist for years, study finds
Eight tips to sail through your science or engineering PhD
Navigating change at Memorial University
The SAT Abides
The web and elsewhere
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