Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned into AI Slop
Arizona State University has launched a platform called Atomic that generates AI-based learning modules from faculty lectures. Many professors are upset about their lectures being used without consent, often resulting in inaccurate and out-of-context content. The university's lack of communication regarding this initiative has led to feelings of anger and betrayal among the faculty.
- ▪ASU's Atomic platform creates AI-generated modules from faculty lectures by cutting long videos into short clips.
- ▪Professors have expressed their distress over the use of their lectures without prior notification or consent.
- ▪Testing revealed that the AI-generated content is often academically weak and inaccurate.
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Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed by their lectures being used in this way—as out-of-context, extremely short clips some cases—and several said they felt blindsided or angered by the launch. Most say they weren’t notified by the school and found out through word of mouth. And the testing I and others did on Atomic showed academically weak and even inaccurate content.
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