Adobe maintains a library of “teaching resources” on its website, ostensibly intended for K-12 classrooms, most of which function as more-or-less blatant advertisements for Adobe products. No surprise there. But among the most unnerving and disturbing “resources” are the lesson plans that feature Adobe’s generative AI. Beyond the fact that the one or two-page handouts are lazy and uninspired — and not something a competent teacher would allow in their classroom — there’s something troubling about the idea that an educator would ask students to outsource their visual imagination to the Adobe corporation by “visualiz[ing] a literary character with generative AI.”
Absolutely not. Kill it with fucking fire.
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