High School Principal's Welcome Email was likely Chat GPT Generated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not OP - but I ran GDS high school principal (not Head of School) welcome letter through GPTzero and got approx 80 percent likely composed by LLM

Not a surprise at all for this extremely low caliber high school head. She also compared herself to Gandhi and Mother Theresa in the letter. Like them, she faces lots of criticism. Not kidding at all BTW

Really poor interpretation of what was actually said. Give it a break.

[Anonymous]

Those checkers are notoriously inaccurate. This seems like a very silly thing to get worked up about, especially on such weak evidence it even was Chat GPT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me. If it frees the principal up to do the other 20,000 things he needs to get done, then fine.

If it is forbidden for students to use, then it's hypocritical.

No it isn't hypocritical at all.

Students need to do their own writing because they are at school, in part, to learn to write. That's not why the principal is there.

It's like saying I am hypocritical because I'd be upset if my kid's personal trainer lifted weights while my kid sat and watched, but I used movers to lift my boxes the last time I moved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those checkers are notoriously inaccurate. This seems like a very silly thing to get worked up about, especially on such weak evidence it even was Chat GPT.

+1. Someone ran the US Constitution through one and it came out as 88% AI generated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those checkers are notoriously inaccurate. This seems like a very silly thing to get worked up about, especially on such weak evidence it even was Chat GPT.

+1. Someone ran the US Constitution through one and it came out as 88% AI generated.

These checkers are incredibly inaccurate. I do not like the idea of people using AI and claiming the work as their own either, but I do hope people stop posting this witch hunt nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP - but I ran GDS high school principal (not Head of School) welcome letter through GPTzero and got approx 80 percent likely composed by LLM

Not a surprise at all for this extremely low caliber high school head. She also compared herself to Gandhi and Mother Theresa in the letter. Like them, she faces lots of criticism. Not kidding at all BTW

Really poor interpretation of what was actually said. Give it a break.

I’m not PP but I think you can get the true point of the letter and still chuckle at PPs joke about Ghandi and Mother Theresa. I will agree with PP that the letter was a bit off - even if you appreciate the most basic of its intended message.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me. If it frees the principal up to do the other 20,000 things he needs to get done, then fine.

If it is forbidden for students to use, then it's hypocritical.

That’s like saying a calculator is hypocritical.

Students need to learn the long/hard way so they understand why things are right/correct; for example, need to know how to write so that if you later use AI to write discourse for you as a professional, you can properly review and edit it. But adults are free to use whatever accelerators they want to get through their jobs.

[Anonymous]

I’ve heard that some principals also calculators and the internet. Abhorrent! Just awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn’t bother me. If it frees the principal up to do the other 20,000 things he needs to get done, then fine.

If it is forbidden for students to use, then it's hypocritical.

Private school teacher here. It isn’t forbidden for students. We teach them how to use it as another tool. Why would we forbid it? That would be like forbidding computers, calculators, Grammarly, etc. Kids are going to use these anyway, so shouldn’t they know how to do it appropriately?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP - but I ran GDS high school principal (not Head of School) welcome letter through GPTzero and got approx 80 percent likely composed by LLM

Not a surprise at all for this extremely low caliber high school head. She also compared herself to Gandhi and Mother Theresa in the letter. Like them, she faces lots of criticism. Not kidding at all BTW

Really poor interpretation of what was actually said. Give it a break.

I’m not PP but I think you can get the true point of the letter and still chuckle at PPs joke about Ghandi and Mother Theresa. I will agree with PP that the letter was a bit off - even if you appreciate the most basic of its intended message.

I agree w/ you. It was poorly written - even if the LLM wrote it! She ties the " I acknowledge that it's impossible to please everyone" immediately to "the most revered figures like Gandhi and Mother Theresa"

Sloppy/clumsy at best

+ +

here is the segment so the "give it a rest" person above can try to defend

At GDS, we strive to create a positive experience for everyone, and it's natural to feel disheartened when well-intentioned actions are met with anything less than steadfast approval.

However, I've learned that there are two essential ways to approach feedback. Firstly, I see it as a valuable opportunity for growth. It allows us to examine our actions and ensure they align with our intentions.

Secondly, I acknowledge that it's impossible to please everyone. Even the most revered figures like Gandhi and Mother Theresa had their critics. I remind myself that each person comes from a unique place with their own set of experiences, shaping their reactions. We can't always understand where people are coming from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not OP - but I ran GDS high school principal (not Head of School) welcome letter through GPTzero and got approx 80 percent likely composed by LLM

Not a surprise at all for this extremely low caliber high school head. She also compared herself to Gandhi and Mother Theresa in the letter. Like them, she faces lots of criticism. Not kidding at all BTW

Really poor interpretation of what was actually said. Give it a break.

I’m not PP but I think you can get the true point of the letter and still chuckle at PPs joke about Ghandi and Mother Theresa. I will agree with PP that the letter was a bit off - even if you appreciate the most basic of its intended message.

I agree w/ you. It was poorly written - even if the LLM wrote it! She ties the " I acknowledge that it's impossible to please everyone" immediately to "the most revered figures like Gandhi and Mother Theresa"

Sloppy/clumsy at best

+ +

here is the segment so the "give it a rest" person above can try to defend

At GDS, we strive to create a positive experience for everyone, and it's natural to feel disheartened when well-intentioned actions are met with anything less than steadfast approval.

However, I've learned that there are two essential ways to approach feedback. Firstly, I see it as a valuable opportunity for growth. It allows us to examine our actions and ensure they align with our intentions.

Secondly, I acknowledge that it's impossible to please everyone. Even the most revered figures like Gandhi and Mother Theresa had their critics. I remind myself that each person comes from a unique place with their own set of experiences, shaping their reactions. We can't always understand where people are coming from.

I tried to leave the letter with the grace to take away what I thought was the intended message -- but it iss hard to "un-see" the odd tone and the fact that it reads more like a reflective and defensive letter about herself. It was not what I would have expected for a "welcome back to school" letter (especially when it is the first communication for incoming 9th grade families).

[Anonymous]

NP. It’s clunky, but her point just seems to be that if even revered figures like Mother Theresa have critics, of course everyday normal people will never be able to make everyone happy at the same time. It doesn’t feel to me like she’s saying she’s equivalent to Mother Theresa.

But I’m not a GDS parent and couldn’t care less either way. I suspect if the reader already liked the person who wrote it, it would seem benign, and if they already disliked the person who wrote it, it would seem self-aggrandizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. It’s clunky, but her point just seems to be that if even revered figures like Mother Theresa have critics, of course everyday normal people will never be able to make everyone happy at the same time. It doesn’t feel to me like she’s saying she’s equivalent to Mother Theresa.

But I’m not a GDS parent and couldn’t care less either way. I suspect if the reader already liked the person who wrote it, it would seem benign, and if they already disliked the person who wrote it, it would seem self-aggrandizing.

I was a new reader with no prior opinion of the writer - it was atypical for a "welcome back to school" letter. And, I've seen probably 40 of such letters in our time between various HOS's and division-level principals. But I am the "grace" person above and have deciphered the most positive take from it. (I don't think it was AI - it felt too specific and loaded for that).

[Anonymous]

You’re probably right and yes, that would bother me. I expect better from educators than the mediocre generalizations and platitudes of chatgpt.

[Anonymous]

Nice.

Your tuition dollars at work.