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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

ghusto wrote: post #68
Dependance wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question : does it need to be said ? It's like the /s sign. Can some people not, for themselves, realize that this text is meant as a more or less a joke ? And before you ask, yeah, I am aware some of the people are on the spectrum, but still... Is humor that hard to grasp on the internet ?

When it's this poorly executed, yes it needs to be said. I was going back and forth on whether it was for far longer than I should have been.

> When it's this poorly executed, yes it needs to be said

Isn't that a mark of great satire? That the argument sort of works within the zeitgeist, thereby showing the zeitgeist to be corrupted.

Over-the-top satire is funny. But it's clumsy. The fact that some people who are being satirised will agree with the satire is what makes it great.

Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by low_tech_love »

It’s a joke and all but also not really? You might have to go do a chalk talk at some point, and that is basically the only part of this article that is actually not real. The rest (about how everyone in academia is prompting everything) is absolutely VERY real.

The word around all the scientific communities which I’m in contact with (to be honest, not so many) is basically “oh, there is no way to stop it, so we’ll embrace it”. All the conferences which I’m active in (say a handful of them) are just pretending nothing is happening and dealing only with blatant and obvious exaggerated cases. If you’re good at prompting, you’ll prompt, and there is no way in hell someone that doesn’t prompt has any chance at all at, well, anything academic really.

Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by rolph »

alterom wrote: post #56
ofjcihen wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think sometimes it is but only if the humor relies on a tone. When it’s satire I think the main blocker of recognition is if you have an emotional reaction first. As an example, if you are a diehard AI influencer or something you might miss the joke entirely because of the severity of your initial negative reaction. Just my two cents. Glad I could contribute to completely beating the humor out of this post :)

No, no, dissecting humor to death is the funnest part of the experience :D (I, too, am autistic)

i think you may enjoy:

45 Different Types of Humor with Examples in 2026

https://humornama.com/featured/education/types-of-humor/

Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by tejohnso »

low_tech_love wrote: post #72

It’s a joke and all but also not really? You might have to go do a chalk talk at some point, and that is basically the only part of this article that is actually not real. The rest (about how everyone in academia is prompting everything) is absolutely VERY real. The word around all the scientific communities which I’m in contact with (to be honest, not so many) is basically “oh, there is no way to stop it, so we’ll e…

The "not really" aspect is so significant that it's barely a joke. It's more serious and thought provoking than a simple joke. I guess that's how good satire works.

This in particular I found quite interesting:

"My research is a collaboration between me and several large language models. We are co-investigators. When you ask me to explain my research without ChatGPT, you are asking me to speak on behalf of a collaborator who is not in the room. "

As people start to regard these LLMs or agents as collaborators rather than tools, it's going to become more realistic to make a statement like that. When I use a hammer, I can't ask it what type and size of nail I should use to do the job. It can only help me with the physical hammering. But when writing with an agent there is a conversation and some decision making that it is responsible for. I might go down a path that I otherwise would not have thought of on my own. And then there's the possibility that I also talk to it about my personal life and have an emotional relationship with it. I could easily see someone wanting to credit their AI agent as a recognized partner in their work.

Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

SteinsGoat wrote: post #76

I mean... this has to be satirical, right? Surely nobody in the field of academia is this limited in their ability....

Sounds like you should feed the article into ChatGPT to find out whether it is satire.

Re: I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

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Post by InsideOutSanta »

root_axis wrote: post #64
firefoxd wrote: post #62

Do note that this was written in December 2025, and we have experienced leaps in capabilities since then. Her methods are outdated. Since January, I've been employed at 3 jobs, fulltime, by using ProxyAI [0]. I'm Chair in several universities. For all I know, I'm also part of several projects. Don't let this kind of blatant discrimination affect you. The future is bright. Note: the service is free once you give it ac…

The TAM for ProxyAI is even bigger than SpaceX's. Hopefully they IPO soon.

The TAM is infinity, since agents need their own agents, which need their own agents, and so on.
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