New AI tools aim to help with grading, lesson plans—but may have serious drawbacks.

You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
0 points

I’d say probably the biggest one would be data entry/billing jobs.

Mainly, I take issue with the early adoption of these services. I’m all for using GPTs and image generators to generate boilerplate material that people can then review and save time with. It seems like a lot of the companies trying to use these services are looking to replace jobs that really need a human touch.

In this case, grading papers isn’t just to tell the student where they can improve, but the teacher as well. If the teacher sees a trend in a common failure point, they know they need to work on the lesson plan for that topic.

It also rubs me the wrong way that the chat services don’t have any qualifications to meet on top of the fact that they’re constantly changing and often have “bad days” where some things get configured wrong.

If we bring tools like this into something as critical as education, what happens when the workload that they’ve been used to covering with a GPT has issues for several days? It should be stable before you bring it to the masses.

At least right now, we should stick to using it for trivial things and occasionally assist with others. The idea of handing material over to a GPT (not even getting into many potential privacy concerns) and trusting it? I just don’t think we’re there yet.

You can undo or reverse a transaction in a billing software. You can roll back code changes, etc. but you can’t fix an education after the fact. That becomes a responsibility of the student which is unfair.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.zip

Create post

Which posts fit here?

Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.


Rules

1. English only

Title and associated content has to be in English.

2. Use original link

Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.

3. Respectful communication

All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.

4. Inclusivity

Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

5. Ad hominem attacks

Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can’t argue your position without attacking a person’s character, you already lost the argument.

6. Off-topic tangents

Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.

7. Instance rules may apply

If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.


Companion communities

!globalnews@lemmy.zip
!interestingshare@lemmy.zip


Icon attribution | Banner attribution

Community stats

  • 4.1K

    Monthly active users

  • 1.6K

    Posts

  • 6.1K

    Comments

Community moderators