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I was in a discussion yesterday about introducing young people (17-18) to generative text models. I noted that

Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers.

On risks:

One idea I had was to ask a generative model a question and fact check points in front of students, allowing them to see fact checking as part of the process. Upfront, it must be clear that while AI-generated text may be convincing, it may not be accurate.

On usage:

Generative text should not be positioned as, or used as, a tool to entirely replace tasks; that could disempower. Rather, it should be taught to be used as a creativity aid. Such a class should involve an exercise of making something.

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Thanks for your reply, I appreciate the correction and the info.

I hope my reply didn’t come off as too caustic - I thought your reply with an open request for discussion was refreshing regardless of the common misconception. You’re not bad for being wrong, and I do enjoy sperging about these things. I didn’t intend to demean you, just in case it came across like that (if not just ignore this - I guess I’m overthinking it 🤔).

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