As Halloween approaches, the university community is discussing a spine-tingling topic: the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI).
Professors have imposed strict limits on AI use in their syllabi, allowing it only for sentence structure or grammar purposes, to preserve academic integrity and human creativity in an era where computers are becoming increasingly skilled at imitation.
The "spookiness" of AI was highlighted when Martin Luther King Jr.'s estate intervened after AI-generated videos of King began circulating online, prompting OpenAI's Sora 2 video model to block users from generating such content.
This incident underscores the concerns surrounding AI's potential to distort legacy and reality.
Author's summary: AI's rapid growth sparks concerns about academic integrity and human creativity.