Second Post of the Day
Most people know that I do NOT like AI. In fact, I detest AI and do not use it.
Can I be fooled and miss something that is AI? Of course - AI can be quite sophisticated. But I can usually recognize its use when I am doing research or writing, be it for a blog entry, sewing project, or something else.
So, with such a distaste for AI, can you imagine my dismay when I got this email?
My reaction was instantaneous and I said aloud, "Oh, no you don't!"
Academia.edu is a reputable site for educational researchers. We use it for publishing and storing papers that we have written or for finding papers to use as we do research for papers that we are writing. It's a respected site, though not quite not as big or essential to the educational community as Research Gate.
Regardless of how reputable the site is, using AI on one of my papers was a serious issue to me. I opened the email to see more about what Academia.edu was doing. My dismay grew when I read the email.
As I looked closer and saw the length of the podcast, I could only wonder what was included in that podcast. The podcast was just 4:45 long; that paper could not be read completely in that amount of time.
I was curious but I was absolutely not going to click on the link to hear it. And, while I am glad that this so-called podcast is private to me, I am NOT happy that it has been created.
This particular paper generated a lot of interest when it was first published in Research in Science Education in 2002 and it has been heavily used by other researchers for years. My guess is that Academia.edu selected it for that reason, perhaps hoping to make it more usable by researchers who want the information and prefer the podcast approach.
Whatever their reasons, though, I am not happy about discovering AI being used with my work. AI is creeping into everything, everywhere.
We truly have let the AI genie, for good or for bad, out of the bottle.
