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In reply to the discussion: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (James D. Walsh, NYMag. Horrifying read on ChatGPT destroying education) [View all]bucolic_frolic
(53,674 posts)Students who are very good writers could take the work of AI and edit it for content, readability, colloquialism, believability and make it theirs.
But the vast majority of students are not very good at using the English language in written form.
I don't question so much AI damaging their memory. Problem-solving and creativity are another matter.
Common sense was not taught a lot in my courses. Bias was not worried about. You learned to agree with the professor to survive.
Society is such a pyramid now. Does education matter? Isn't it all about skills, computers, liquidity, and who you know?
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I just say through an hour's presentation on using AI for grant applications. Let me be clear. The most gifted writers and best thinkers and business executioners will have NO advantage in their application process because AI elevates the most mediocre hacks to the same elevated level. We are rewarding less qualified people and penalizing talented ones. This society will collapse over the long haul with this strategy.