Proposed Title: ChatGPT and Human Communication: Convenience, Agency, and Authenticity For my Critical AI Analysis Paper, I would like to investigate the concept of ChatGPT as an AI and its potential influence on humanity’s ways of communication. The tool can be used to produce emails, create content for social media, compose essays, and achieve other …
October 2026 archive
Oct 16
Thoughts on Reading 4 and Vibe Coding
On a complete converse from the last pair of pieces. The reading we have introducing vibe coding is actually why I an not an AI dooms-dayer to the core. I have been actively and extensively using AI since I could essentially beta test GPT. In more recent times I have been using LLMs (and much …
Oct 16
Readings Three: On Turkle and Chiang
These readings present two overlapping crises of the current AI moment, both of which have been on my mind a lot lately. With character.ai being sued into bankruptcy because of the multiple cases of harm resulting from engagement morphing into addiction for its users, you can easily see exactly what Turkle warns of in her …
Oct 13
Elyas Obad: Thoughts On All Readings 10/08/2026
I found Chiang’s comparison of ChatGPT to a blurry JPEG interesting because it explains how AI can produce information that appears accurate while leaving out important details. I think this raises a bigger question about how much people actually understand the information they receive from AI. Personally, I use ChatGPT quite often, not just for …
Oct 13
Proposal
Elyas Obad 09/27/2026 Jonah Brucker-Cohen For the Critical Analysis paper, I would like to analyze the inherent bias within the AI platform, ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI that uses large amounts of training data to generate human-like responses. Although ChatGPT is often viewed as …
Oct 10
Reminder – there is no Class on October 13, our next meeting will be October 20
This is a reminder, there is no Class on October 13, our next meeting will be October 20… Jonah
Oct 08
Week 4 Readings
Chiang, ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web – I really liked the blurry JPEG example Chiang used because it made his idea so much easier to understand. A JPEG can look clear while losing information and Chiang compares this to how ChatGPT can give us a clear answer that is not always accurate. …
Oct 06
Reminder – Next In-Person Class Meeting – October 20
Hi Class – we are not meeting in person until October 20th – Please use the time to work on your papers!
