I was a sophomore in college when ChatGPT came out, so I witnessed some of this firsthand. There was much more anxiety—it felt like the rules were unclear.
And I think both of our stories touched on the fact that for this incoming class of high-school and college seniors, they’ve barely had any of those four years without ChatGPT.
Whatever sort of stigma or confusion that might have been there in earlier years is fading, and it’s becoming very much default and normalized.
Normalization is the thing that struck me the most. That is not a concept that I think the teachers have wrapped their heads around.
Teachers and faculty also have been adopting AI carefully or casually—or maybe even in a more professional way, to write articles or letters of recommendation, which I’ve written about. There’s still this sense that it’s not really a part of their habit.
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