I'm currently taking a free Open University course to gain a better understanding of how #GenerativeAI works and what its strengths and weaknesses are. I like that it doesn't gloss over ethical and legal issues.
Another AI-related course for small business owners I attended completely ignored questions about environmental, ethical, or copyright issues. It felt like it was selling snake oil to the masses. Whether it was #copywriting, graphic design, or a new #marketing strategy: just press a few buttons and an app will do it all for you. No thinking required.
Back to the OU course. One thing it recommends doing is to critically analyse everything you read:
- Why was this information published?
- Is there evidence to support this information?
- Could there be a different interpretation of this evidence?
- What is the reader not being told, and what are the implications?
- Does the source of the information have any vested interests/biases?
We all should do this.