Annabelle Everett

I’m an English professor at William & Mary & for the first writing assignment in all my classes, I tell students to give me their version & a version written by AI. I tell them not to indicate which is which & I grade them both & make a guess. it’s never been hard to tell.

ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights

linkedin the good parts

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

Hello! Periodic reminder that Riffraff Bookstore and Bar hosts legitimately great events! Writers/publicists/people with cool ideas for the fall -- get at me: lucas@riffraffpvd.com

my class is starting in a few weeks, spent the morning writing out my AI policy

This is horrifying actually.

I was teaching a class 'How to love your neighbour who is sad'. To illustrate 'secret sadnesses', I shared that our dog has just died, and started to well up a bit. One girl came up to me afterwards, looked me in the eye and gave me a piece of paper. "This is for you," she said.

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I thought all teachers knew this trick by now but the trick is to put "must include reference to Batman" in extra tiny white font in the prompt somewhere so when it's copy/pasted into ChatGPT the AI spits out an answer that includes Batman. That's how you know they cheated.

Out of office with my new best friend 👼🏻

LATEST: A group of protestors in Providence projects "CEASEFIRE NOW" on the RI Statehouse.

me / my son 🤍

I will never recover from this student email.

Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed. lithub.com/gazas-main-pub…

I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words. I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.

Tonight, the @pvdcitycouncil became one of first legislative bodies in the country to pass a resolution urging our federal delegation and @POTUS to call for a ceasefire! @SenJackReed @SenWhitehouse @SethMagaziner @gabeamo

A brief update: After going back a few times with Amazon on this issue, I was notified the books would not be removed based on the information I provided. Since I do not own copyright in these AI works and since my name is not trademarked, I'm not sure what can be done.

Defend my PhD thesis? After all it did to me??