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How to Participate Without Using Generative AI Directly

You can investigate AI systems without generating new AI content.

This pathway is not a fallback or a consolation prize. It is a full participation route for people who object to direct tool use, lack access, need a lower-risk classroom option, or want to focus on evidence, consent, policy, and critique.

AI use is optional.
Direct generation is never required for participation.
Refusal is valid.
No one has to use a tool they object to.
Evidence still matters.
No-AI work still predicts, compares, documents, and explains.
A.

What You Can Do Instead

Observe

Analyze pre-generated examples

Use curated screenshots, frame strips, prompt packs, or facilitator-provided outputs. Your job is to name defaults, assumptions, failure modes, and evidence without producing anything new.

Simulate

Run unplugged simulations

Act out prediction, pattern matching, diffusion, temporal drift, or model-card review with people, paper, cards, whiteboards, or classroom materials.

Critique

Build a critique

Write an evidence-based critique of a system, output, policy, dataset, interface, classroom use case, access tier, or consent risk.

Teach

Make a classroom activity

Turn one camp idea into a lesson, worksheet, discussion protocol, gallery walk, unplugged game, or assessment that works without student logins or generation.

Consent

Create a consent checklist

Define what can be recorded, prompted, screenshotted, named, archived, or shared. Make consent visible before anyone is asked to participate publicly.

Compare

Compare outputs without producing new ones

Use frozen examples to compare vague prompts, revised prompts, model defaults, confident claims, video failure modes, and access differences.

B.

What to Ask For

A shareable artifact

Bring one thing that shows what you found: a critique, model card, consent checklist, classroom activity, annotated example, comparison, or unplugged protocol. It does not need to be generated by an AI system.

Evidence and consent

Point to the evidence behind the artifact and name what can be shared publicly. If the work involves another person's words, image, or classroom context, consent comes first.