Not all generative AI tools are created the same. And not everyone is on board with all, or even any, use of these tools. This page features voices and ideas around pushing back against using generative AI tools.
- Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies: A Quickstart Guide. Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Megan McIntyre, Maggie Fernandes. “This guide positions refusal as a disciplinary and principled response to the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies in writing studies. We created this guide to add to ongoing efforts to think through approaches for responding to GenAI in writing studies, and in higher education more broadly.”
- 2024, Dec 17. AI Fight Club and what it hides. Henry Farrell. “My current cause for vexation is the controversy over AllDayTA.com, a new Large Language Model (LLM) based service for professors.”
- 2024, Dec 22. Different Critiques of AI in Education. Maha Bali. A worthwhile read on some of the “types of arguments people use when they want to critique or resist AI in education”.
- 2025, Jan 21. How did AI become an inescapable virus in my writing tools? Josh Bernoff.
- 2025, Feb 11. Against AI-Shaming. Maha Bali. “It is totally OK for someone to want to resist AI, without being shamed by others for being a luddite or being fearful; and we also need to accept that for some people in their disciplines and practices, they do feel like AI is helping them, even if we don’t understand how.”
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