As a person in the middle of Gen Z, I've been accustomed to Artificial Intelligence and modern

technology as a whole. I’m no engineer but I’ve worked with programs to benefit me and my
work from time to time. However, I tend to be very anti- artificial intelligence for the most part, as
an artist, a vocal performer, and a creative writer.

Before we get into that, I would like to talk about some AI applications recommended by this
assignment that I would find useful.

Google Assistant is quite helpful with remembering things for me. I have ADHD and lists help
me remember things, but remembering to do my lists is a huge struggle I face. Being able to tell
Google to remind me of something is really helpful. I also appreciate the organization
components of it, as I can have google put things in files or move things around whenever I
need it. Google’s search engine is also unmatched, being able to provide thousands of answers
to one question. Incognito is also helpful, as sometimes Google can provide you answers based
on your own bias curated from previous searches, so incognito provides a way to get new
information on the same topic. However, I don’t love giving all my information to a single
corporate conglomerate as I tend to be a bit stingy with my information as I’ve been hacked
several times. I don’t trust any digital thing to be 100% safe, but Google, despite its tendency to
store personal information you didn’t give, is highly accessible for people who need its tools, so
there are equal amounts of pros to their cons. Google is never going away, as it is unbelievably
helpful and I believe it will develop even further to be rivals with companies like Open A.I and
other sites.

I use Siri as an Iphone user for spell checks, as I have terrible spelling and grammar. I also use
Siri to help set my alarms and such, which she does promptly. However, when it comes to
asking her for information online, she tends to provide answers that are quite vague, or she
doesn’t really answer the question at all, but provides an article with the answer somewhere in
there, which can be inconvenient especially if you need the answer right then. Siri also tends to
listen when you don’t want her to, which can feel like your privacy is being invaded every once
in a while. In terms of Artificial Intelligence, Siri is simple and helpful but a little less helpful than
Google. As long as Apple exists, Siri will exist and as they improve their makes and models, it
will improve with them.

Before we get into GPT, I would like to discuss the ethical positions and my moral position of the
rapid development of Artificial Intelligence. These technologies are helpful in certain capacities,
and I firmly believe that these things were made with the intention of benefiting the average
person with little things. I have used Artificial Intelligence to generate prompts to help me figure
out what to draw, or help me reword some sentences that I feel like weren’t clear enough. I also
use Grammarly, which helps me fix my grammar mistakes and spelling, as I struggle immensely
with those things on my own. I can acknowledge that A.I has it’s place in our modern society
and has really effective and ethical uses in academia. They’ve saved me from writing poorly
worded essays, and given me ways to review my work and places where I can improve it. All
and all, my usage of A.I has been rather limited but still wildly beneficial.
However, I am just one person, who uses and trusts A.I very little. Some people use A.I to
generate whole essays for them, or use it to create art or even use it to recreate peoples voices.
Now, these things aren’t necessarily bad, but we need to remember that these machines are fed
the information in order to spit it back out at the user. A.I art is essentially theft as it feeds off of
pre-existing artwork and rearranges all of them to make something new. Majority of the artwork
that is used to feed A.I is not given consensually by the original artists, and it’s been a huge
debate on whether or not regulation needs to be tightened.

My school, Texas A&M University, has policies in place to prevent A.I usage in terms of it
creating whole essays or completing assignments for any course unless permitted by the
instructor. College is meant to hone educational skills so that person, when they step out into
the world, has all the skills and knowledge to be a functional member of society. We should be
encouraging students to present their own work that they created, even if it’s not at a flawless
collegiate level. Professors, tutors and counselors all aim for students to succeed, because it
reflects well on the university, which means they can keep their livelihoods. Applications such as
GPT are widespread, and it can be challenging to know what a student knows and where they
are struggling if they are using A.I to complete every assignment. Regulation of these things
need to be tighter at a political and a higher educational level.

ChatGPT and its fellow sisters like GPT-3 can generate essays and responses and other
academic works for a person to use. Of course, if you’re struggling to figure out where to start
an essay and need a little assistance, you can use A.I to give you ideas, but to use it to do the
work for you generates a dependency on the machine itself. Open A.I, the company that created
ChatGPT is in hot water, because a programmer who used the application fed it a code and it
began to spit out random people's private information, such as email exchanges, text
messages, posts on social media, etc.

Evidence attached here: https://stackdiary.com/chatgpts-training-data-can-be-exposed-via-a-

divergence-attack/

We have to regulate A.I now before we let something truly powerful out of the box and it starts
with academia. ChatGPT and the like are mostly used in academic settings, and young, poor
college students are pretty vulnerable to having their data stolen and sold by companies such
as Open A.I. We need to promote a safer, more limited use of A.I, not only to promote original
work from students, but to prevent them from having their sensitive information being spat out to
a random stranger.

A.I in limited uses is a phenomenal tool, and teachers can benefit from it by using A.I to help
them get ideas for assignments or help them grade papers. Everything about A.I is useful in
moderation, but once you begin to use it more than necessary, it not only becomes lazy, it
becomes dangerous. I feel a bit odd answering questions asked by A.I about how I feel about its
usage. However, I understand that I have to start being familiar with how A.I operates and I will
continue to use it in small ways that boost the overall work I did, instead of doing the work for
me.