Hi, on Point Podcast listeners, this is Magna Chakrabardi with a special first person episode.

On today's main show, we talked about chat GPT and how it might change our world when

it becomes nearly impossible to distinguish between what a computer generates and what

a human would.

Well, as a part of that hour, we wanted to hear from listeners whose lives might be impacted

by this new technology.

Essentially, it's everyone, but some are feeling it sooner than others.

It's natural to be concerned that folks might use chat GPT to write stuff for them, like

essays.

So, you might be even more concerned if you're a teacher, like Daniel Herman, who's a high

school English teacher in Berkeley, California.

But he says he's more curious than concerned for now.

I started hearing about OpenAI and the thing that was going to be possible, where you

or I could write two sentences of an article and say, finish this in my style.

And then, I guess a couple of weeks into December, I saw that it had been open to the public,

and I just started playing around with it.

And of course, the first place my mind went was some assignments that I give my students.

Every year, I teach two sections of junior English, and the focus of the spring semester

is each student has to choose two books entirely their own choosing, and they work for a couple

months writing this 15-page paper, putting those two books in conversation with each other.

And it is, for many students, a real struggle.

And there's no place that they can look and spark notes to find how those two books go

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