In another thread, @flooppoolf@lemmy.world made a post leading to the question “How long until we need to include a lesson on crafting appropriate AI prompts in order to help students use them as tools and not as unpaid ghost writers?” Are we already doing this?
I definitely discuss acceptable use and try to keep the guidelines brief and familiar (Treat it like a not-too-bright friend who’s a patient sounding board). But how far do you all think we’ll eventually have to wade into the weeds on this?
Stack Exchange is attempting to provide that type of space for learning: https://genai.stackexchange.com/
Unsure how well it’s doing as it came after many questionable decisions at SO and the community in general did not welcome it, but there appears to be answers on questions!
Academic librarians are already here with prompt engineering to obtain (more) accurate responses, particularly with finding keywords to use, etc. Maybe surprising to some, but faculty are our biggest requesters for how to do it “for research.” We also give a bunch of caveats, because we don’t want to be tracking down hundreds of fake references from AI either.