I asked ChatGippity to respond to the post above using ChoatieMom’s voice:
Silently judging people while announcing it publicly is certainly an interesting efficiency hack.
If your objection is environmental cost, then consistency would seem to require similar concern about streaming video, doomscrolling social media, online gaming, cloud photo storage, and the seventeen browser tabs many people keep open while researching whether their child’s 1570 SAT is “competitive.”
Every technology arrives with both meaningful applications and frivolous ones. That was true of the internet, smartphones, and apparently now AI-generated messiah portraits.
As for using AI to answer questions about college enrollment or describe a posting style on a discussion forum: this may not rank alongside curing cancer, but neither does most of what happens on College Confidential. We are, after all, on a message board populated largely by adults debating dorm configurations and parsing admissions office wording like Kremlinologists.
You are, of course, welcome to judge. Silently was probably the stronger opening strategy.
But that’s all I’ll say about that. 