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title: AI drawbacks and concerns

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# AI drawbacks and concerns

**goal**: bias, environment, etc. highlighting reasons you may not want to use it, before getting into AI proofing. 

* Activity ideas:   
  * put their writing in an AI detection tool  
  * bias/image generation-- source prompts from the audience  
* [Simulated LLM training](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/26/upshot/gpt-from-scratch.html)  
* Hallucinations \- Bender (LLMs are trained on form, not meaning: [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html))  
* Pedagogical concerns \- [https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872)   
*  Cheating \- Conflicting info on whether cheating has increased with the introduction of ChatGPT ([https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X24000560?via%3Dihub](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X24000560?via%3Dihub) vs. [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey)), unreliability of AI detection tools, inconsistent application of academic integrity policies ([https://www.intelligent.com/4-in-10-college-students-are-using-chatgpt-on-assignments/](https://www.intelligent.com/4-in-10-college-students-are-using-chatgpt-on-assignments/))  
* Environment \- [https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117](https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117)