After decades of using free online services, and seeing the consequences of being the product and not the customer (see Soshana Zuboff “The Age of Survailance Capitalism”, or the Netflix documentary “The social dilemma”.), I’m getting less stingy and I try to pay for services that are truly useful to me, especially for my work.
Based on the courses I have designed and taught to over 300 university professors titled ‘ChatGPT, opportunity and challenge for teaching’, and at the request of the UPC Vice-Rectorate for University Policy, I have written this draft decalogue of recommendations. With additional contributions, this document has been presented to the community of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. This is my version with some additional revisions.
I keep seeing more signs that Google will have to get its house in order to stay competitive. Like this one [https://archive.ph/7BYDG]. When that happens, many free or very cheap services will simply be discontinued. Let’s not forget that “Google graveyard” grows every day.