hm, this is my first post, i guess. i'm not going to talk to much here. i'm still a bit confused on how zonelots work, but i've kinda got it, from the looks of it. tomorrow is a day off, so i'll be finishing whatever that is left of the blog by hopefully tomorrow. i'm going to work on the artwork section and put one of my more earlier works from october. don't mind my writing stuff being in a different format from how i usually write here, i like it that way.

i wrote this much already, might as well ramble about something. there's this problem with the english teachers at my school and using ai. i learn in english program so i'd get the type of teachers who are basically just hired if they are good at english and are nice to kids. i actually learnt at another school, when i was in grade 7 to 9. it was ran by the same agency as the teachers at my new school, but they are very, very different.

the teachers at my old school pretty much stayed way longer, they don't usually have drama, most of the time. they don't even use ai (well, for the teachers i personally know, i am basically friends with one of them, shout out to matt. while the teachers at my new school are pretty nice, they have an ai problem, and i feel like it's getting worse as it keeps on continuing and continuing.

to start it of slowly, they basically use some ai generated stuff, putting it in tests, assignments, and sometimes encouraging students to use ai to review. they seem reasonable, at least to a person who does not care about the use of ai, of course. but lately, it's just getting worse, and worse.

they started ai generating literal slides. yes, actual slides. instead of like, i don't know, writing it on their own, they decided to use an ai model to generate a slide. you don't even need to put anything much, since you could explain it in class anyways, but i find it lazy and sloppy to just throw in prompts into an ai generator than to actually make a slide and explain the topic in your own words. and if that isn't bad enough, i had a substitute literally read from the slides, word by word, without any of his own personal comments. he just came there, read from the slides, and called it a day. it wouldn't have been so bad if the slides weren't ai generated, since if he actually read from a slide someone did themselves, it would've had more originality. but this? there's no originality at all. it doesn't feel engaging, it feels like you're just trying to make the class listen with no effort.

there was a conversation i had with the teachers two weeks ago, where i was going to find my old lingua franca teacher during lunch period (i miss you), but she wasn't free that period, so i talked to my writing teacher about competitons, which we had a talk about pictorial writing. i later ask him if the lingua franca teacher is free after my classes, he says that she isn't free, in fact, none of them are free. why? they had an ai class. a class about ai. they were taught how to use ai, basically, by this one teacher. i had a little chat with him, basically telling my opinions on ai, on how that making your teachers use ai is going to make them less capable of expanding their skills, how using ai art is basically bad in every way possible, and how it's and for the enviroment (he ignored that part completely.)

he had the same argument everytime. "it's helpful as a tool." he says. he disregards that it can actively make people more incapable of critical thinking (or thinking in general), he disregards the works of artists who had to see their work get stolen into a sloppy profile picture by a robot, he disregards literally anything bad except for "yeah, if they don't use it in a good way." except that there isn't much good in generative ai. getting your coworkers to get more dependent to generative ai isn't going to save them, it's just going to make their work more sloppy and jus straight up daunting to listen to, which brings me to my next point.

yesterday, for a review for a test we had to do. i was expecting him to basically go over the topics briefly like how he would usually do. instead, he pulls out this video, literally ai generated to its core, for us to watch. instead of teaching, he literally put a prompt for an ai, that sounds like those people who would fake being nice to you when they deeply despise you, to review the materials instead of him. that was pretty much my final straw. instead of getting creative with it, instead of taking the effort to review it in your own way, you chose to use an ai instead. and this is the same guy with the ai generated ghibli ripoff piss filter profile picture, by the way. he has used ai in multiple classes, including tests, which he could've just written it himself, heck, even a made-up scenario would be great. he could've just find a source as well. but he just uses the ai anyways, and it's just getting ridiculous.

the lesson that you'll learn is, generative ai may make your job easier, but it's lifeless, it's sloppy. if you teach in a sloppy manner, students who notice will notice that it's sloppy. at least put in the work and write everything by hand and then putting it in a google slides presentation, or use stock photos. at least these two is a way to support artists and creativity.