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Okay, I need to talk about this.
I am currently a history student studying British politics in the last half of the 20th century, and, in this course, you learn how to analyse a source. A source. This means a photograph, newspaper, extract of a speech, etc. From that time period.
I’m British myself, so this is an A-Level course (a specialisation where you choose 3/4 subjects to study over 2 years), so you’d think they’d be fairly serious about this kind of stuff.
Except, after learning about a reaction to problems in Ireland, we were given a source, and the preface from our professor was that this source, was AI generated.
As in they AI generated something for us to learn and extrapolate information from.
They passed off an AI source as a genuine thing in order to manipulate the information we would learn from it.
React to this how you will, but, personally, I think that is fucking dangerous.
