Chris Troiano Gregory

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

Left: washing machine with the words “Critical Washing” on it. Right: Quote: “When we critique AI, we should do so with intellectual honesty and in a principled way. Utmost care is needed to avoid ethics washing, greenwashing, and generally — what we dub — critical washing. (…) Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.” —Suarez, Müller, Guest, & van Rooij (2025) https://zenodo.org/records/15677840

It was only a matter of time before someone tried machine learning their way into phrenology.

Got one of these last week intended for an Australian novelist who has my (not very rare) name.

The turning point for me to move from “let’s see how it can help” to “please don’t make me look at this shit ever again” was a faculty workshop where we practiced multiple ways to use chatbots to help plan lessons.

How tf would I know the immigration status of other people in an ER waiting room?

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

The battle is not keeping AI out of Canvas— that’s already been lost. The battle is giving individual faculty (not administrators, not campus IT, not ed tech consultants) the power to turn it off at will. That can happen through governance and advocacy.

We write for PEOPLE. These folks think I’m just waiting to automate everything that makes my job worth doing — reading what young writers have to say, and talking to them about it.

Excellent promotional video from OpenAI for their newest garbage.

Baseball map demo begins at 22:45.
www.youtube.com/live/1jn_Rpb...

Look at our awesome garbage!

Baseball map at 22:45 to 24:00.

Along with a concise summary of so much going on in higher ed right now, really thoughtful perspectives from these students. I was most surprised by the screenwriting class — all that WG strike and still … aspiring writers get this?

Is it weird that none of these people post on Truth Social, even when they’re at-ing DJT? Is Trump the only person there?

I’ve fallen down and ripped my pants at the knee multiple times.

They did form a supergroup! Perhaps this is what's half-remembered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bens

the malicious optimism of AI-first companies YouTube video by Angela Collier

I’ve watched @acollierastro.bsky.social’s incisive response to this interview at least five times. “AI would be terrible at that. And if it were good at that, you wouldnt have a job anymore.” youtu.be/dKmAg4S2KeE?...

Higher education is being called to provide services that have previously been done by companies: job training, market research, content creation. AI, as a manifestation of big companies, is extractive and that isn't new, just insidious on a new level. (Sano-Franchini #4C25)

this is a crazy island
with dinosaurs everywhere
i wish i never came here
they’re really getting in my hair

Harvey Danger - Plague of Locusts YouTube video by HarveyDangerMusic

No shade to the Man in Black, but @seantroversy.bsky.social really did something with Plague of Locusts youtu.be/3EIczyoRfpg?...

“There is something deeply offensive in knowing that some LLM is probably crawling through the tattered fragments to churn out mockeries of the very real sources, research, and energy that once backed my words. They’ll be vomited back on the shores of my browser, squirming and stinking.”

Whoever made high school students write about logos/pathos/ethos must be held accountable

I don’t even understand what is happening here. Is he posting screenshots of his own AI roasting him?