Today I was startled to come upon Thompson Rivers University’s instructions for how students may use AI, which included the following (poorly written, ungrammatical) instructions:
“You may use AI generated output if your professor permitted you to use it to discuss it critically. For example, if you are permitted to prompt ChatGPT to write a poem in the style of Susan Glickman or prompt DALL-E to create an image in the style of Dorothy Knowles, and include the output in your work to discuss it’s style, etc. You should still include an acknowledgement of how you used the AI tool and a citation for the output (see the Citing AI page). If you are using generated images, audio files, and/or codes, check if your AI tool mentions any use or copyright restrictions on the works it creates.”
See: https://libguides.tru.ca/artificialintelligence/appropriateuses
Why on earth would anybody need to ask AI to generate a poem in my style in order to discuss my poetry? They could simply, oh, I don’t know, read an actual poem I myself have written and then discuss it. I do not understand this world anymore.