Prompted: Should Students Use AI, and How?

When ChatGPT Writes Better Than Your Average Term Paper, Maybe the Problem Isn’t the Student—or Even the Tool

Joel here. I’m pleased to introduce Prompted, a new occasional series exploring generative AI and the humanities.

The format? Epistolary! Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal) and I exchange discursive emails about the often bumpy intersection of culture and humanity’s latest cultural technology—namely, large language models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude.

We’re publishing these exchanges to…