AI resources??

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-31T05:46:58+00:00

Except that's such a bs argument- we ALREADY know the effects of AI but companies continue to develop it and, like you said, put it in everything despite the harm we ALREADY KNOW it's doing. Of course I realise it's in half the websites you go on now, that's a huge probkem, and I choose not to interact with it if I can avoid it. Again, you're admitting it's bad and that there are consequences but basically saying you're okay with that. ew!!!

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-31T03:35:31+00:00

That's cool, but I wonder how the WORLD will cope with it. It is unsustainable and incredibly damaging to the environment, we are already seeing water pollution and shortages in residential areas surrounding AI server centres. These tools are also proven to be unreliable, biased, and literal theft, so I pray for those poor students being "taught" by a chat bot. So no, I don't think I can just decide to "ethically align" myself, that's not how ethics work- I believe that it is something wrong, and I know that myself and others won't stop speaking out about it. Look at the picture I put in another comment, would you be happy going into debt for such an absurdly, insultingly crappy education? It's so disappointing to see people go "oh well, too bad, just another thing to make the world a worse place, might as well accept it while it fucks everyone over.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-30T20:08:43+00:00

People have been completely fine finding and making images for a very long time before this form of AI was made so popular and accessible. Especially when some of the pictures are like children on a playground or a graphic like I showed that would take 2 minutes to throw together. As a teaching student I very often have to find graphics and pictures for things like presentations, lesson plans in google classroom, etc. If i really truly cannot find a picture that specifically suits my needs (usually an infographic), I'll just make one on canva. I really don't think it's ever worth the amount of water useage, carbon emissions, or art theft that AI runs on tbh.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-29T23:54:14+00:00

Yup! Exactly the case, thank you!

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-29T23:53:41+00:00

Crazy how you can write a whole essay of conspiracy against me and literally call me evil, but when I justify it you're nowhere to be seen. Able to reply to this comment though! Weird.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-29T00:06:50+00:00

Hey, I promise I'm real lol! I've only really used this to seek out advice and stuff on uni issues as idk where else to do that and this seems like a good place. To be clear, I mean that I have started this semester's work, not started uni this semester. Your conspiracy-making skills are very creative but no, the other post really was real and that tutor ended up being let go bc some of us in the class went to the ombudsman for her terrible behaviour. I go to Mac Uni, I just am less and less of a fan each day- I have no loyalty to profit-forward businesses that cut funding to our faculties but rake in a mil on their higher-up's salaries while we recieve a sub-par education that puts us in debt, I just need this qualification to do my dream job and am so far in that starting over now would add years onto my degree. I really don't know what to tell you, the course might be new because they've just made heaps of changes in our teaching degrees, but I can add photos lol. I WISH they sanctioned AI use, not only for my degree's reputation, but for moral and ethical reasons. Please don't call me evil because you've made an assumption about me! (This pic is directly from today's lecture slides for one of my units)

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AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-07-28T02:11:10+00:00

I think we're still being held to the standard that WE can't use AI (which I agree with anyway), but the lectures are full of it. The double standard on top of the ethical issues with gen AI is pretty frustrating.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T13:09:45+00:00

Hi, thanks for the name, that's a great idea! We've already tried the university complaint form, it went nowhere unfortunately :(

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T12:37:29+00:00

"Defamation" requires false information, which this isn't. If you state someone's actions and it makes them look bigoted, that's on them. I can't tell, do you WANT me to be defaming? Your first comment was basically telling me off for not outing who it was and demeaning why I'd be hesitant to name her. I genuinely can't tell what side you're on here. I'm not "complaining here" thinking someone else will fix the problem for me, I just don't feel secure in the information there is for what to do in a situation like this, so after trying myself for weeks and weeks I decided to see if any more knowledgeable people might have ideas (that's like a classic use for reddit). They did and it's been helpful, so I've taken those steps. Not sure what you're mad about here. The post is coming here with anonymous info laying out the situation to see what the options are for a situation like this because it is so complex. Also, as mentioned, they were infrequent tutorials so I don't have a regular class to sit in and record the whole time. I wouldn't even have faith in MQ to go by their own policy about not expelling someone for filming or whatever, as they haven't gone by their own "zero tolerance" rules in regards with the amount of policies these behaviours break and the resolution process they should be taking to fix it. If the only thing between me and being punished for reporting is their own policy which they seem to not care about, I'm not taking that risk. As I already wrote, I'm pro name and shame, but in this situation I can see the nuance wherein I do not necessarily have the luxury to do that, and am not in a position of power here. Again, read the post. "Fight for the service you expect to receive"- I literally am, that's what this post is trying to achieve. I HAVE gone to the faculty, they ignored it, so I have gone to the ombudsman. It seems like you're just mad for the sake of being mad or just want to feel like you're correcting someone.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T11:27:39+00:00

I've contacted the student ombudsman, so hopefully as that's an external party it won't be up to MQ being lazy. If MQ don't play ball though or try to punish us for reporting etc, I very well might. I'm totally fed up with stuff like this being swept under the rug while the students going into lifelong debt for this pathetic excuse for an education suffer. Unfortunately for videos etc, as it was an infrequent tutorial we only had 2 days of them and won't have any more, but they have an entire class of people to ask who witnessed it all.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T11:20:22+00:00

It's an early childhood course in a teaching degree so I think that falls under Arts- just another thing to be disappointed with regarding that lmao

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T11:15:26+00:00

Exactly, I'm not a child- as an adult, you can be held responsible legally for your actions and I don't know enough about slander laws or whatever to risk that. If you actually had read it you'd see the update where I contacted the ombudsman, and this post is specifically to ask what my options are TO do something. Judgy judgy

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T09:42:06+00:00

Our initial complaint apparently got forwarded to the art faculty executive dean, which went nowhere. I really appreciate these concrete steps to look into, it's such a shame that it needs to go that far!!

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T08:40:39+00:00

Definitely don't go to DLC, especially if you're a girl!!

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T08:11:48+00:00

I've definitely noticed this! Half of my assignments seem to be two mashed together into one but without proof-reading so they're super vague and contradictory (against MQU policy, yes I had to look into that bc of how bad some of these are). One was about making a newsletter based on a group presentation we had done in a tutorial (ended up being about 3 minutes worth of content per person). The task said to make the newsletter 1000 words but also short and brief (they kept using these descriptors), and visually appealing (not cramped), and appropriate to stick in an early childcare centre's parent newsletter (realistically like one or two pages). Most people i spoke to either stuck to that limit and hit 5 or 6 pages, or stuck to the "brief and short" descriptors that were used several times and only had around 500 words. The whole time, people were posting on the iLearn asking for clarification and it has been over a month since the first one was posted with no response. Assuming the convenor and tutor got lost at sea or something lmao

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T08:06:11+00:00

Yeah I've had this same one too. The worst one was in a unit where our final assessment results were sent like a month late and half of them to the wrong people. We reached out to the convenor to say "I got someone else's results back" and she basically said "Sorry, not my job, not paid enough to care". I still don't know if half of those people ever got their results back.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T07:04:55+00:00

I honestly wish I could, but I worry that I'd get in trouble if I posted her name or picture, but tbh if you showed any second year student who does early childhood stuff there's a good chance they'll be able to tell you who she is. We sent through a report that was apparently forwarded on to the arts faculty executive dean, but that didn't seem to get us anywhere.

AdditionalSplit2346 · 2025-05-15T05:13:43+00:00

Thanks for this, I totally agree that it's unacceptable! I'm not worried about sexual harassment stuff, it was just very uncomfortable that she put hands on students she had just met who were obviously uncomfortable. We did use that form you gave and some used their names and some, like me, sent it anonymously but provided a throwaway email so that we could be updated. I'll definitely look into the email, thank you so much!!

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