I’m removing the BSD advertising clause
Some open source software I wrote decades ago was distributed with the
then-current BSD license, which included an advertising clause.
This hinders the code’s reuse and distribution, so I’m hereby declaring
that the clause’s requirements no longer apply to my code, and
that the corresponding clause can be deleted from it.
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The perils of GenAI student submissions
Generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT,
can help students as their personal tutor,
by allowing them to study what interests them,
by providing in depth explanations to topics they didn’t quite understand,
by assessing their work and problems with it, and
by providing shortcuts to parts of their work that aren’t directly relevant
to what they want to learn.
However, students sometimes
misuse GenAI
to derive answers for work they were supposed to conduct on their own as part
of their learning,
or accept its answers uncritically.
For the first type of misuse part of the blame occasionally
also lies with educators
for giving out-of-class assignments that GenAI can perform with ease.
For the second type of misuse students must learn to avoid using
unverified GenAI output.
Needless to say that in both cases the misuse of AI may also constitute
academic fraud and violate their university’s code of conduct.
Here is my take on the practicalities of the two cases.
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