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College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by MattGrommes »

readingnews wrote: post #17

I am not sure what opinion I have on this one. - Deans are paid a lot. Our dean make a quarter mil. - Mass shooting emails should _probably_ have a human touch. - Heck, any human tragedy email should _probably_ have a human touch. - Does the university want to pay the Dean to write emails? - Does the Dean want to write emails? - What is the Dean doing for a quarter mil a year? - Probably playing around with ChatGPT?…

Most emails from Deans are actually written by the communication department of the University. In case that changes your thoughts on the matter.

Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by kayodelycaon »

jemmyw wrote: post #26
trpv wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe a little bit less sinister than that. Just a way to promote the product in every email originating from their devices

Regardless of the reason, I think less of anyone who doesn't turn it off. Made me cringe so badly when I sent an email from a new email client that added something similar and I hadn't checked the signature. One reason I feel that way is that the only time I'd see it in a work context is if it's a phishing email.

I see it all the time in a work context. At three different jobs.

No one really cares where I’m at. I have my laptop signature set to:

    Thanks,
    Kayodé
    
    $NAME
    $RANK
    $SERIALNUMBER
I leave it there even if using “Thanks” isn’t entirely correct and my name is repeated below it. Everyone else here does something similar.

My phone signature is the iPhone default. Just like everyone else.

Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by onetimeusename »

MattGrommes wrote: post #32
readingnews wrote: post #17

I am not sure what opinion I have on this one. - Deans are paid a lot. Our dean make a quarter mil. - Mass shooting emails should _probably_ have a human touch. - Heck, any human tragedy email should _probably_ have a human touch. - Does the university want to pay the Dean to write emails? - Does the Dean want to write emails? - What is the Dean doing for a quarter mil a year? - Probably playing around with ChatGPT?…

Most emails from Deans are actually written by the communication department of the University. In case that changes your thoughts on the matter.

What would you say you do here?

Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

But I was under the impression that ChatGPT would help people be more kind and compassionate in their correspondence if they struggled with that before?

Wouldn’t someone start by creating some basic points about what they want to express and then edit the response?

Isn’t ChatGPT supposed to be a “jumping off point” for these kinds of thing?

Are people mad because the author was transparent about their use of editing tool? Should the Dean have been less transparent? I don’t put in my correspondence that I use spelling and grammar checks in Word, so why would you say you used ChatGPT?

Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

gedy wrote: post #5
felipemesquita wrote: post #2

If you’re just wondering how students knew that the email was written using ChatGPT, the last line of the email weirdly reads “Paraphrase from OpenAI's ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, February 15, 2023”.

This is the mind boggling part. What were they thinking? Was this copy pasta from OpenAI and didn't proof read it?

ChatGPT doesn’t insert itself as a citation, it was added deliberately. For what reason is the question…I don’t say I use spellcheck when I write something with Word.

Re: College deans suspended after ChatGPT used to email students about mass shooting

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

jdkee wrote: post #27

"Samuel Lu, a sophomore, told the student paper: 'It’s hard to take a message seriously when I know that the sender didn’t even take the time to put their genuine thoughts and feelings into word. In times of tragedies such as this, we need more, not less humanity.' " Those Deans should be fired.

Or maybe they shouldn’t insert the “citation” that they used ChatGPT to help edit their correspondence. Ignorance is bliss. This story is a huge nothingburger and the Dean did nothing wrong.
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