They bought them because they were expensive 🙄 I'll never understand IT gets to make educational decisions

I’m really glad LAist asked, but there is something so infuriating about seeing them trot out these idiotic responses with such self-assurance and receiving absolutely not pushback.

The fact that university administrators do shit like this (CONSTANTLY) without consulting the faculty who have passed many layers of review to be the acknowledged experts in this field just proves how very very little respect admins have for the knowledge they’re supposed to cherish.

Did they synergize it with their MOOC on the blockchain? Did they at least lost it beside their NFTs on Yahoo? :-D

It's bad enough when companies blindly slap AI onto things and call it an improvement. When universities do this, it undermines the very mission of higher education.

CSU has internationally renowned experts on education, digital learning, surveillance and capitalism, social welfare! But sure the CTO read a laundered press release in TechCrunch.

How are other people supposed to come to universities’ defense when the people making decisions openly flout the institution’s own expertise?

All of this. It’s so infuriating. They’d rather pour money into outside consultants and shiny toys they learned about in an hour at some higher ed administration conference than consult with the field experts they hired to teach their students. Make it make sense.

It’s such a glaringly obvious indictment of management culture but somehow it doesn’t matter because it just happens again and again and again.

Uh huh. Of course the tech execs think the tech is inevitable

But there are places where a 20% error rate is OK?!

This is really depressing

CSU's operating budget is on the order of $9.2 Billion 17 million is a drop in the bucket www.calstate.edu/csu-system/a...

Couldn't they have just used the free version ? Or Google offers its LLM for free up to a certain extent too.

So they’re spending money on the tech that allows students to NOT write their own papers and has encouraged people to die by suicide. Makes sense!