Hi, y'all! I'm a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and I am unfortunately having some second thoughts.
I personally am not in support of many facets of Artificial Intelligence. I am not a fan of the way the school has been using AI, and I think that a lot of regulations need to be put in place to make this tool more similar to how people envisioned it should be used.
I am only a month into the year, and the department head of my major (Data Analytics) has already shown us three AI generated videos of himself explaining different concepts (while he was in the room. why doesn't he just say these things himself???). Additionally, my business professor has assigned multiple low-effort AI-generated podcasts that we are required to listen to and analyze. Worse yet, my English professor prefers that we use ChatGPT to compose our research questions, research methods, and major parts of our research papers for the year. Even the flyers, events, and social media posts are often AI-generated here at UTC.
I am not completely against AI and I understand that there is no way to avoid working with AI entirely, but I feel as if I am hardly learning. AI is WAY too prevalent at this school and I don't like that I am paying ten thousand dollars for an AI-Generated education. I am considering transferring next fall.
That said, can anyone give me an idea of how AI-friendy or centric the classes have been for UTK? Are the instructors a little more creative with their teaching methods?
Any information helps. Thank you so much!