Professors Will Accept Generative AI Before They’ll Accept Laptops in Class

By Lauren Matz | Photo by Adrianna Egan

Get your “chat” out of my face. Like actually. Chat is NOT my friend. And I don’t even care if that makes me unpopular among my peers– or, as it stands now, among my professors.

What fucked up dystopian world did I wake up in where professors are accepting– and even encouraging– the use of AI? 90k a year just for my film professor to tell my class it’s okay to use AI to develop our ideas. Who knows, maybe that is industry standard nowadays. I watched the new Stranger Things season and let’s just say… I would NOT be surprised if ChatGPT was in that writers’ room. 

They keep saying AI is becoming a part of our lives and we have to learn to accept it and use it wisely. First of all, girl. No we don’t. We could all loudly shun AI so much that it becomes embarrassing to even THINK of using it. But you SHEEPLE don’t want to cheat the old fashioned way. 

Second of all, you know what else has LONG been a part of our lives? Regular technology. Laptops. Hey girl. Hi Prof. Is it a goddamn sin to take notes on a Google Doc? And don’t get me wrong, I endorse handwritten notes. I am entirely tapped into the notion that you learn and recall better when you physically write instead of type (plus I like admiring my own handwriting. I worked hard on it!) But some of these bitches talk a mile a minute and don’t upload lecture content or even BOTHER to make accompanying lecture slides. Desperate times call for desperate measures. How is it more socially acceptable to use AI for my work than to *gulp* TYPE my notes???

The defense of AI is getting out of HAND. Literally– those AI generated photos have one too many fingers to look even remotely acceptable. So girl, I urge you– put the clanker down and put that sexy little brain to work. Even if you have to type your notes to do so <3