{"id":36864,"date":"2025-01-19T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/all-tomorrows-cultures-anthropologys-sad-ai-archive\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:04:49","slug":"all-tomorrows-cultures-anthropologys-sad-ai-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=36864","title":{"rendered":"All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropology’s Sad AI Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"


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There
\nare 3 approaches to generative AI in the classroom: 1) an outright ban on it;
\n2) a limited use policy that covers certain assignments or parts of
\nassignments, and 3) an open approach that allows students to do what they
\nwould. None of these are fool-proof, whatever the intentions of the professor.
\nUltimately, generative AI are third-party, black-boxed products\u2013more tempting
\nto students, perhaps, than Wikipedia, but also more treacherous. I feel for my
\ncolleagues in the humanities attempting to wrest essays from students on
\nShakespeare or Aristotle: generative AI is all too good at producing a mediocre
\nessay on these subjects. I also understand my colleagues in the computer and
\ninformation sciences, who utilize these chatbots to help with their instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But with
\nanthropology, there are several caveats. 99.99% of writings on other peoples of
\nthe world are drenched in ethnocentrism, colonialism and racism. The internet
\nis awash in complete nonsense about \u201ctribes” and their \u201ctraditional culture,\u201d
\nand, in generative AI, all of this is ground up and, like sausage, pumped into
\nprompt-driven content. Yet typically, students don\u2019t know enough to be able to
\ndistinguish a \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cbad\u201d response from ChatGPT or Gemini.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is
\na somewhat longer way of saying that students often tried to utilize generative
\nAI in my introductory assignments and take-home exams, and their grades
\nsuffered for it. Not because I was penalizing them for cheating; proving that
\nthey\u2019ve used AI is almost impossible, and generative AI detectors are
\nunreliable at best. Instead, the questions that I asked were all about the
\nanthropology I\u2019ve taught in classes, and generative AI is, unfortunately, only
\ntoo willing to spit out all manner of palaver. Only someone who knows what to
\nask can minimize the racism and colonialism inherent in generative AI engines.
\nThe default is ideology. And hallucinations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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One
\nthing I want to include next year is some process of education. I really think
\nthat students don\u2019t really know any better. The least I can do is show them
\nthat it\u2019s not so easy and explain why that is\u2013that generative AI is not giving
\nthem the \u201ctruth.\u201d Or, rather, it is: the truth of colonialism and racism that
\nunderlies Western thinking about non-Western peoples. Anthropology\u2019s sad
\narchive. But to someone who\u2019s never taken anthropology before, this stuff looks
\ncorrect to them, and the temptation is too strong, especially in the panicked
\nmoments before a deadline. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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