Project 2 Remeditation

The speaker is a student named Mackenzie Kennedy who is introducing Part 2 of Project 2 in their Literacy and Technology course. They will be discussing their opinion on AI usage and the importance of being literate in AI. AI usage refers to using AI tools for entertainment or academic purposes, while AI literacy involves having the knowledge and skills to navigate AI systems and tools safely and proficiently. The benefits of AI usage include completing assignments more easily and improving critical thinking skills. However, there are downsides such as plagiarism and copyright infringement. Plagiarism can occur when AI outputs contain information from other sources without proper credit, leading to academic consequences. Copyright infringement can occur when AI tools use content from sources like the New York Times without permission. Students need to be aware of these issues and develop AI literacy skills to avoid them. Understanding the algorithms and credibility of AI sources can he Hello, this is a Dean Mackenzie Kennedy. I'm a student in Professor Hensley's Literacy and Technology course. I'll be introducing Part 2 of Project 2 to everybody. My topic for Part 2 of Project 2 will be presenting my audio of my opinion on AI usage and why it's important to be literate in AI. AI usage and AI literacy is not the same. AI usage is merely using AI tools for either entertainment or academic purposes. However, AI literacy is something different. AI literacy is defined as having the knowledge and skills needed to think, use, and navigate systems and tools of AI in a safe and proficient manner. In other words, AI literacy is just the mechanisms and tools necessary to navigate such things in a safe manner so that you can avoid the pitfalls of it. It's not the same as the usage. The benefits of AI usage is being able to complete assignments in a easier manner, especially when you want to complete an essay at the last minute and you don't have time. So you go to AI to write it and you just turn it in, and that's what makes it efficient and easy for students to use. Not only this, believe it or not, AI usage actually benefits our critical thinking skills, like thinking critically. The reason being is that AI gives us the visual data and schism to comprehend these topics and store it in our brains, which makes us much more engaged in the topic. When we're much more engaged with the topic, it's easier for us to do well in our assignments and develop skills needed to understand abstract concepts. On the other hand, the downsides of AI usage is running into plagiarism. Believe it or not, much of the data that generative AI has is not updated or it's used from other forms. According to Megan Marone's article on access.com, the plagiarism detector copy leaks found that 60% of open AI's GPT's outputs contained some form of plagiarism. And as a student, we should know this because if we're using AI to write our papers or complete assignments, we don't want information that's been used from other websites because that's plagiarism because we're not giving adequate credit to the original source of that information. And when a lot of times when students submit their assignments on online portals, these online portals can detect the plagiarism. And as a result, the student would get a zero or be on academic appropriation. And you don't want that. Another issue is copyright infringement. Due to the fact that much of the information in these generative AI tools is from other forums like New York Times or even websites, a lot of these forums have noticed the correlation between the content in their articles to the content the generative AI has put out to its users and they've decided to take action. In fact, New York Times filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Word and Open AI because they believe that their usage of their content without their permission constitutes copyright infringement. But why do you need to know about copyright infringement and why New York Times is suing them as a student? As a student, you need to understand and know why these lawsuits are happening because once we know that these are the consequences of plagiarism and copyright infringement, we could find ways to get away from that and not run into these issues. So knowing about the copyright infringement lawsuit would help students understand the negative consequences of using AI. And as students, we can use our AI literacy skills to avoid plagiarism by assessing the sources that the AI sources put out for credibility and accuracy. Once we're able to do that, we're much more likely not to use what AI put out in the first place. We need to understand the algorithms of AI and ways to benefit us so that we know how these AI tools work. And when we know this, we're much less likely to even be tricked or write a paper that's been plagiarized by AI. I believe that the ups and downsides of using AI can be utilized to our benefit as students so that we could use our AI literacy skills to be more proficient in this medium. And as a student, I believe that being literate in AI can help us avoid the pitfalls of using AI and use it in a safe and proficient manner. If you want to know more about this topic, you can read part one, which is the essay I wrote on this topic. I wish everyone a good rest of their day and have a good afternoon.