How I Used GPT for Student Feedback in More Human Ways
As we’ve seen in the last few weeks, writing dialogue is an interesting area to explore the limits and capabilities of AI.
➡️ You can read about my previous explorations here.
Since GPT is a language module that predicts text based probabilities, it has trouble with things like subtext. It can achieve this with some prompting… but it will be a predictable subtext.
AI will not write any ground-breaking dialogues. While prompt-engineering can improve outputs, most serious writers won’t be happy with the results.
This week, I tested out using AI as a form of commenting on the dialogues my students wrote. While AI has difficulty writing engaging dialogue itself, I found it offered helpful comments and even detailed suggestions.
How I Did It
Once my students posted a story, I cut and paste it into ChatGPT with the following prompt:
You are professor in rhetoric and writing teaching a course on AI & Digital Storytelling. You recently assigned students to write 250 word micro stories that incorporate dialogue. Here is how we define good dialogue:
I also pasted the 4 tips for writing dialogue that we used to both write and generate different versions of dialogue.
