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A topic that has garnered increasing interest in the digital humanities in recent years revolves around the mass media’s depiction of emerging technologies such as big data, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. Generative Pre-training Transformer (or ChatGPT) in particular has caught the attention of journalists, who are currently framing them in either alarmist or utopian terms – although several are also using equivocal language when describing its design and deployment. In this paper, framing theory is used to explore how two South African news media outlets, namely, News24 and Daily Maverick, are portraying this generative artificial intelligence tool in the context of higher education. As a discourse analysis method, frame analysis enables scholars to examine how ChatGPT is conceptualized and problematised by the news media. Recognising the discursive practices the media employ to make certain features of this tool either more or less salient is important; these practices may have a significant influence on how the tool is received and utilised in educational spaces. Academics who have a layperson’s knowledge of ChatGPT may, on the one hand, overstates its capabilities, leading to misconceptions that could inadvertently obfuscate its negative (ethical) consequences. On the other hand, little to no knowledge could also result in a dystopian view that obscures the ways in which the tool could be leveraged to enhance teaching and learning in tertiary spaces.
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