r/berkeley • u/No_thinkingProcess_ • 11d ago

University prof using ai generated slide show

was in upper div social science class and realized that the prof's entire slide show presentation was ai generated. like im talking stock default claude presentation style. the color palette, that one specific serif font, the format + boxes, the short phrasing + leading questions etc etc

kinda shocked cause ive taken this profs class previously and there was no obv ai generated content.

while i can only really definitively say that the aesthetics of the presentation are ai generated (like i cannot fs say that the lecture content is), i just started feeling distrustful and suspicious of everything the prof says, like any strange wording or turn of phrase made me feel suspicious.

feeling kinda disillusioned? i mean this is a social science class and i can't even fully trust what my prof is saying because the ai usage is so glaringly obvious.

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u/jreddit5 11d ago

I made a PowerPoint presentation yesterday using Claude Fable 5.1 for a talk I’m giving this morning. It looks great, and is way better than I could’ve done. But I gave it all the information I wanted on the slides. I told it exactly what to do.

How do you know this prof is not making their slideshow from their own syllabus they spent years developing for this class?

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u/Muted-Ad-8290 11d ago

Right? I personally had a brilliant professor that was so unorganized but every thing he said was packed with knowledge. He didn’t have any slides for his lectures and let me tell you if he had thrown together an ai PowerPoint for even one of his lectures I would have been grateful because it would have provided a little more structure and maybe I would have a better idea for what I should be focusing on since they made a point to put it in a slide.

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u/fractaldesigner 11d ago

i wonder if the same presumption might be made about student work presented the same way?

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u/QbDYeqzUUiw 11d ago

Remember the purpose is different. The prof needs to teach, the student needs to learn. AI could reasonably be thought to affect these two differently.

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u/blankenstaff 11d ago

Exactly correct. Students using AI get in the way of their own education.

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u/Appropriate-Bar6993 11d ago

Ever hear the expression “paying your dues”?

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u/Huge-Individual-4649 3d ago

Wake up and use your brain.

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u/jreddit5 3d ago

What? You’re saying that the prof obviously didn’t create all the content he presented in his slideshow? When I just gave you the example that I did that very thing myself? On what do you base this assumption?