Stronger Than You

nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths

if you use chatgpt to write your english assignments that is bad. you should not do that

this has been accelerated by watching my roommate who teaches freshmen composition slowly become ben_affleck_smoking.jpg as he has to fail multiple students every semester for using chatgpt

like. this is bad and this person should feel bad lol this completely misses the point of writing assignments. the point is the production, not the end product

critical thinking is a genuinely important life skill, whether or not you pursue higher education. fascism relies on anti-intellectualism!

AND IT’S TERRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. what are we doing here

Whenever our class would harass our teachers about why we have to learn X thing —why do I need to take precalc, why do I need to take an English class —it’s because you’re not just learning the material, you’re learning how to think.

evil

People really hate thinking huh

Nietzsche would have a field day over this tbh

give it 10 years and reading and writing at a basic adult level will be a rare skill

THIS is the allure of AI, why techbros think it's neato keen: they hate mental effort. They don't want to read, or attend meetings, or view long videos. They want summaries.

These are the frat boys who never studied, who didn't do any work in group projects, who paid somebody else to take their exams.

If the machine can write responses, that'd be great too. Just read & answer all my email like it's me, then summarize using a short video of a hot naked anime chick reading the news.