The 20 Theses
Ferdinand Pauwels, Luther Hammers His 95 Theses to the Door, 1872.
We believe it is important that companies and individuals alike firmly stand for something. Though our product is not at all tied to any particular religion, Reverend Martin Luther was one such individual. We took inspiration from his work for our 20 Theses, which argue, among other things, that creative authorship is vital to critical thinking and rejecting dogma—skills that, incidentally, were Luther's whole thing.Students should not use generative artificial intelligence to directly produce creative literary work...
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Because doing so robs you of the opportunity for personal introspection.
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Because doing so erodes the integrity of your scholarship.
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Because doing so leads to the atrophication of your valuable writing skill.
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Because doing so narrows the scope of societal thought.
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Because doing so disrespects your innate creative capacity.
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Because doing so entrenches laziness that bleeds into the next generation.
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Because doing so suffocates any sense of pride in your effort (or lack thereof).
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Because doing so hinders your ability to explore the world around you on your own terms.
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Because doing so is not standing on the shoulders of giants, but rather soiling you.
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Because doing so makes the future vulnerable to dogma.
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Because doing so allows certain frontier labs to potentially monopolize intelligence.
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Because doing so reduces your capacity for other intellectually taxing tasks.
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Because doing so damages your relationships with your teachers and mentors.
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Because doing so damages the relationship between educational institutions and society at large.
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Because doing so prevents you from the joyful process of producing unique, personal work.
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Because doing so disposes you towards shortcuts in other areas of life.
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Because doing so jeopardizes the value of creative work produced with integrity.
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Because doing so infantilizes you.
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Because doing so produces a world that does not belong to you.
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Because, what point is there to creative work if we cannot draw on our own humanity?
Ferdinand Pauwels, Luther Hammers His 95 Theses to the Door, 1872.
We believe it is important that companies and individuals alike firmly stand for something. Though our product is not at all tied to any particular religion, Reverend Martin Luther was one such individual. We took inspiration from his work for our 20 Theses, which argue, among other things, that creative authorship is vital to critical thinking and rejecting dogma—skills that, incidentally, were Luther's whole thing.