Thank you so much! There were a few positive developments today actually, which I am taking as a sign to just keep moving forward 🤞

To be clear haha I'm not changing jobs or leaving 😅 But this is something I've always wished I could be invited to do, and though the circumstances are not as ideal as I imagined, this is still what I had always longed for, and prayed for.

(hugs) Huhu hang in there, and if you need anything, let me know! Hope next month is better 😢

Ahaha I thought it was just me who actually liked Alexander Hamilton better when played by someone else, good to know 😅 Somehow I could sympathize with and even forgive the character more (after he cheated) in the Solaire version.

This is prompted by another long but insightful essay on the issue, which another writer responded to by attacking the essay as full of fallacies. Lol, predictable. I have long learned that no matter how eloquent you are about your views, some people will never, ever listen.

And actually, it's not even about their actual views on the issue, or what the side they pick is fighting for, per se. Some people pick a side based on who is on the other side, and how they can use their so-called advocacy to attack those people in the guise of fighting for justice.

And looking at the AI-generated team's output, none of them felt...truly them? It was just the same art I've seen generated before. There were elements that were supposed to describe them, but it still did not feel unique. It was, in every sense of the word, soulless.

The prompt was simple: "Draw or create something that describes you." It was interesting, actually, how differently everyone interpreted the prompt. There were those who made word clouds, others drew simple emojis to describe their interests, and some made simple origami.

Our group drew on paper with pencils and crayons, the traditional way. I know my drawing was pretty bad ahaha (it was pretty much like a kid's drawing, lol) and not all the students were good at art too, but at least we all sat down and thought about how to interpret the prompt, ON OUR OWN.

Aww thank you! I just have a lot of ~feelings at the moment ahaha, but let me see if I can actually sit down and write a proper paper about it. It's really getting out of hand, huhu.

I have SO MANY THOUGHTS as I sit in this workshop, but I unfortunately am seemingly the lone dissenting voice among my colleagues. And I am not the best at explaining why something makes me deeply uncomfortable. It would be nice if someone else also shares these feelings. 😔

Thank you! 💕

As for "We don't see a lot of actual patients, how will we learn, so we need AI to simulate patients" -- WHY are they not seeing patients? Maybe there are structural problems that need to be addressed first, that have to do with equal access to health care and the like.

And on the argument that it saves time by performing tedious tasks, maybe in the first place these tasks should not have been formulated in the first place? Maybe the problem is efficiency and unequal task delegation in the faculty, and that has to be addressed.

It does not take a lot to read more on it, especially on the damage it does to the environment and communities, as well as artists and other creatives, and even critical thinking of people in general.

Hugs!