Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

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Yes, we can complain, however, let’s not bury our heads in the sand without a plan to adapt to what will be new norms. Many people in education screamed about how the Internet was going to ruin a student’s ability to write and do research. We adapted.
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Weird how AI is taking all the creative and tech jobs, and not the ones like cleaning the bathroom, or making fries. Can't wait for AI to be in all the Apps companies want us to use to order fast food, while they pay the people who used AI peanuts to do the physical work
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A friend and I were discussing his use of AI in food preservation. He had a batch of vegetables ruined because the AI didn't include the need to blanch raw veggies before freezing.
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I'm pretty sure ChatGPT is not "designed" to do any of that.
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I'm pretty sure it was designed specifically to attract lazy people. There's a lot of money to be made from lazy people who crave the kudos of being creative without putting the work in.
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As for what's destroying our children's future, here's one theory: it's all of us older people.

(I don't normally share video, but this one isn't long and the slideshow is great)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E
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We were supposed to make robots to do the drudgery and labor, so we would be free to write, make music and art. Instead we're having the robots write and make art while we do the drudgery.
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What critical thinking? There's NEVER been 'anything' in our educational system to teach and nurture it. EVER. The goal of our educational system is to produce SHEEP.
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You're not wrong.
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To be clear, I don't actually think it was designed with that intention. I just think that's the effect.

I legitimately don't think that it was designed to be used by the public, but when you've paid a lot of money for something, you start trying to jam it in places.
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This is the book to read.
Deeply researched and detailed.
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ALL WE HAVE TO DO is never use it and shortly we will be twice as smart as everyone else!!!
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I see it in almost everything students submit. Also tired of the line that we need to teach kids how to use technology the “right way.” They’re kids/human. We all want to do things the easiest/fastest way. Teaching the “acceptable” way to do it won’t change their lack of reading/writing skills.
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Im still trying to figure out what the right way is when it comes to AI.
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The same can be said of reality shows.
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I agree with you. I also think it’s weird when chatbots pretend to be humans (for customer service). It’s ridiculous. I can always tell. All this A.I. is going to put so many people out of work, but it really makes no sense for STUDENTS. They need to learn HOW to write first before they employ A.I.
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You’re 100% right. Having been a prof for three decades, I’m moving back to in in-person blue book exams in the fall, in a hopefully-not-in-vain attempt to foster critical thinking again. I was already incorporating more and more oral presentations to try to stem the tide, but now it’s come to this.
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This seems overly deterministic, AI has no inherent power to do this, it’s the social contextual nature that has been developed to be used this way. There must be academic institutional effort to curtail this culture from growing, but dismissin ai entirely as deterministically degrading seems unwise
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We can all imagine an alternative universe where the fascistic planet-trashing plagiarism machine is benign in practice.

It's just not the universe we actually have.
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We are also paying for the infrastructure and electric plants that they use to generate ai. All ai is about is taking away more jobs from American workers. The only jobs they want for us are the ones that all those people that were deported do. Ai cannot innovate, it can only copy and rearrange
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It is certainly making me dread this aspect of teaching...that is, the aspect of trying to motivate for genuine human engagement that can't be imitated.
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Flipped classroom model is going to be the only way forward.
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More evidence here: www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
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AI is spackle.

It can smooth over a gap if you're in a pinch for time, but you gotta finish it yourself for beat results.

And if it's the only tool in your toolbox, I don't want to go anywhere near the house you built.
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*best
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To say nothing of environmental destruction
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And if one more person tells me, " it is here to stay and we just have to accept that," I may become violent. That's a tale being told by those making $$ and gaining power through it.
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As well as the people who just overidentify with it and dismiss everyone else as "not getting it."
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With the expulsion of foreign students and the dumbing down of the natives, pretty soon a solid C scholar will be seen as a genius
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LLMs are 100% propoganda machines and not much more.

colehardman.medium.com/beyond-true-and-false-f24aeeea699b
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Making people doubt their intelligence is one of its most pernicious effects. I know my students are smart & can learn, and the damn techbros want them to believe they are just irredeemable bad writers, like learning doesn't matter. That's the intended function.
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billion dollar predictive text. it's shite. and most certainly is not intelligent.
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As a teacher, I can’t help but see ignoring the screaming of educators about the impact of AI on critical thinking as connected with all the other devaluing of education and devaluing educators. Which is all connected to so many more things.
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Especially since we’re already churning out MAGA folks who have zero critical thinking skills.
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It’s LITERALLY the plot from 1989 videogame science fantasy RPG classic Phantasy Star II:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy_Star_II
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Elon the Nazi & his infamous Doge crew, which consisted of Notorious Hackers are pilfering worldwide Unchecked !!

Everyone stay Aware, we can't use T-mobile & other cell companies, being connected to Starlink !!!!

We MUST find alternative cells, they
are LISTENING 👀
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Now that's a critique i can get behind. GenAI does a lot more than "scaffolding" to empower students. It replaces them with respect to creating text that others would have to read.
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From 40 years experience, I have found that new technologies are both useful and harmful. Calculators allowed students to solve more complicated problems, but for some students, math became which buttons do I push. AI, is just the latest challenge for educators. Perhaps the toughest though.
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Any tool designed to make life easier will ultimately be abused by the lazy to make life effortless.

It's like handing everyone the Teacher's Edition of a textbook. No one learns because they all just skip to the answer code at the back of the book.
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And the book has all wrong answers
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For now, smart people can still check AI (Llms) and see the wrong answers. What will happen when two generations of people were "educated" with AI, there won't be anyone left who knows the facts/reality. What's the point of universities? Students, teachers use AI. Useless,expensive degrees.
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You are 100 percent correct. It is frightening how fast students are losing their thinking skills
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To get us to a situation where we don't know how ignorant we are.
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BINGO, just like they tell students they can use a calculator to do their math problems, how's that learning anything except how to push the right button. Not very challenging to the mind.
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Adding to this to say that by the admission of their own terms of service, the very companies who provide these platforms know the potential harm, but control and profit is more valuable to them.
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Thank you.
As an English major and English Lit MA, watching the world slowly realize that our skills are actually useful is both refreshing and terrifying. More need to catch on before it's too late.
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we need a butlerian jihad
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This!
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Thank you, from a new follower.
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They’ll (I’m old) all end up living in a vessel resembling a terrarium, like the beings in those old sci-fi flicks and books.
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The last sentence here, tucked away at the bottom of the article, is interesting though. I don’t think there’s a way of putting AI back in the box but if AI literacy could be taught and utilized, there could be benefit. That’s a big if, but it’s the only silver lining in here.
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These are massively expensive systems to run, & the field is highly centralized, with only 3-4 credible players.

This goes back in the box immediately with just a whiff of regulation. But our electeds won’t do it, because they are of the same gullible and greedy class pushing it in the first place.
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I asked students to watch a movie, then read a recap and an essay about the movie written by AI. Their job: assess how AI had done. It was obvious to most that AI had produced the most superficial possible reading. Unfortunately, two students used AI to write their essays about the impact of AI!😭
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I completely agree; have turned 100% off of this tech.
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Hard agree. The last thing today's students need is more shortcuts and shorter attention spans. AI is literally just the Cliff notes(kids ask your parents)of this era. The whole point of reading work and writing papers was to develop critical thinking and research skills
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Everyday getting closer to the humans in Wall-E.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xToQ4cIHkk&pp=ygUNV2FsbC1lIGhpbWFucw%3D%3D
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It's the dumbing down of society
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It is also yet another way to move money upwards, consolidating it to the wealthiest class. Workers become obsolete. AI doesn’t need a salary or health benefits.
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Extraordinary book.
Essential reading for everyone.
Not exaggerating.

✨don’t miss ch. 9, 12
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And while the narrative is that human workers are no longer necessary, they still are, just more hidden, further exploited and alienated.

Every week another story breaks, hey turns out it was humans in a boiler room doing the bulk of the work for pennies.
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And it’s built by misappropriating the output of cultural workers—forcing them to be indentured servants in the creation of a world in which they are no longer needed. It is EVERY kind of exploitation rolled into one.
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youtu.be/EJ-OSJ7J64w?si=n1qfp4my-6LZbfaP
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I think that's part of a dichotomy. One part is monetary consolidation, the other is information consolidation and control - which I find more insidious.
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They are pushing reliance on AI so that a handful of already obscenely wealthy white men can become obscenely wealthier though manipulating all the information ever produced for their own narrow benefit while depriving everyone else of access to wealth, education, and a livable planet.
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And when they(AI) find us "Obsolete"....
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But it does need electricity and water. Our water.
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Just to add here. It's ruining internet searches, too. There's so much garbage coming back. Or worse: misinfo.
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have you tried kagi
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Chrome, at least, has some good blockers for Google. The AI stuff just doesn’t appear anymore. It’s so nice.
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I did a Google search on "who was the bald man seated behind Trump at the June 14 parade?" (I thought it was Nauta, but wanted to be sure).

Google's AI told me it was Eric Trump. 🤣
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If you're not already sub, Futurism is Top Notch (IMHO). They cover this AI hellscape well. Here's one recent apropos article.
(Also, search their site for "AI internet" and so many good articles)
futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
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It's ruined Google for sure, but *some* of my searches now are so much better if I use ChatGPT to do the searching. It depends on what I'm searching for, of course.
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Not to mention it's also an instrument of planetary destruction, due to the high electricity demands, and excessive water consumption caused by the use of ChatGPT. It's infuriating seeing some people being so indifferent about how generative AI seriously harms the planet.
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www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
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I don't think it was designed to render people helpless, truly, but it's definitely a consequence of how people use them. I'm an adversarial researcher on these systems and they are quite complex, even capable of a degree of synthesis in the right circumstances.
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The purpose is a system is what it does. If it is consistently is doing things like offloading cognitive load onto a computers hallucinations and hurting its users, then that's part of its purpose.
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This.

I’m introducing my Freshman comp class to Blue Books.

I may force them to check out library books.

I’m definitely going to make the initial draft of their papers be written in person, on paper, in front of me.

Welcome to College, version 1995!
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This is how it’s going to have to be. I teach asynchronous online, but I think it all needs to end, esp for dual credit students. Sadly it limits access for non-trad, but the AI detectors are no good. When they used AI for peer review, I lost it.
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Blue Books! I filled so many of them during 4 years as a History major.
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These 6 lines concentrate all about this topic.
We should engrave them everywhere !

Bravissimo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Spot on.

I remember awhile back when I was doing technical interviews (I/T), I would focus my questions to see how the candidate would analyze/solve an issue.
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100%. As a former college english prof., I can add my voice to this choir. Critical thinking and reading is/has been eroded at an alarming rate. It is more than just stealing. It's about students thinking it is okay to have someone/something think for them.
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Funny/sad story: Hubby had a student 3 years ago who was functionally illiterate, but the final paper was a masterpiece. The funny part? The student stole my hubby's dissertation and turned it in TO HIM. If you're going to steal, don't use your professor's work, LOL.

The univ tossed said student.
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And that's scary! You can never say who/what is "teaching" your children.
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partially agree, and don’t forget the way these bots are design to ‘please’ the user with the info provided, instead of factual info
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Yep,it's just a modern way of propaganda. Sad part is that these victims here can actually get the real(?) information, if they just would bother to do so. Simply get the wider picture of things and use their own brains.
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Its part of the Republican pro propaganda and no kids educated policy.
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I think Google's gotten worse since their AI has been given the top spot for information searches.
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You can quit google.
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google's been getting steadily worse since like 2013ish but yeah this accelerated it to a whole new level
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Google sucks now. I use ChatGPT for some of my searches and it does a way better job than Google. DuckDuckGo is also great; it is supposedly like a pre-2012 Google (2012 was the year Google Search was taken over by their marketing dept and thus began the decline).
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My 17-yr-old-is taking English 101 at the local CC so she doesn’t have to take English her senior year. On her first assignment, she got a 0 because the professor said she used AI. She asked how to prove she didn’t used AI. The professor said to shorten her answers, they were too detailed. What?
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I have no idea what we do about this. I tested some AI detectors by putting academic writing from the 1990s into them and they said it was AI content!
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AI is integrated in everything. My dual credit students use Grammarly, which has AI. Word has copilot, Google docs Gemini (I think). Using those can make the detector pop.
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Writing is thinking. The physical act forces us to voluntarily, and involuntarily, think in new ways. It can unleash creativity or simply aid critical thinking.
Outside of commerce, writing is as much about the process, as the product. I think of AI as a commercial innovation.
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👏👏👏! 💯 True!
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I’m old enough to remember when people were concerned that I would never learn to spell because of spellcheck. Our students use Grammarly and Zoetoro. AI seems to be next in this line. It’s not going away, so I encourage students to learn how to use it reasonably and cite it appropriately.
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Related www.forbes.com/sites/marcoannunziata/2019/01/11/the-great-cognitive-depression/
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Oh yes ma’am! You are right
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Yep, in the past couple of years I've noticed students even struggling with reading texts. Why read when an LLM can do it for you?
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For real. This and the mishandling of the COVID pandemic in the states is exactly why we're teetering on full on Nazi America.
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Hard agree.
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I always say that "a good droid is a dead one"
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Agree. AI is training a whole world to be idiots.
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First part of my your observation maybe true. But it's a unintended consequence - not conspirational
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I see it in coding and engineering too. AI lets students limp through academic assignments, but it’s not good enough to produce work at the level we need, so they flounder. Then we have to back up and help them develop foundational problem solving skills.
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Yes, you are 💯 right!
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”Cogito, ergo sum” is basically gone, some stupid algorithm is running& ruining it all. Sad and scary.
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Education is going to need to switch to a viva system with essays and dissertations presented in person, followed by questions on the paper delivered.

If you researched and wrote it yourself, this won't add to your workload. If you didn't, you'll quickly get found out as a fraud.
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Definitely she's right!
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Use of AI/ChatGPT needs to be an automatic failure. Make it impossible for students to coast through education by tenderizing their brain in the Lying Machine.
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The Luddites were right all along.
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I have gone back to almost 100% handwritten notebooks in class for student work the last few years and phones in a phone locker. The increase in student learning and betterment of their social skills has been phenomenal.
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Funny how pens and papers make humans act human. As I used to tell my students when you write, with your hand, it becomes a part of you.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Same. I've also been toying with creating a media literacy unit and am now thinking this needs to evolve into an LLM-literacy unit.
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Humans and each human experience is unique. AI can't replace or replicate it.
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bsky.app/profile/wildgorillaman.bsky.social/post/3lrfzzlcnzk2q
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The title is "Everything is Computer!"
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There's also an African (sorry, don't know anything more specific) folktale - I don't remember it exactly, but it was about people who trained monkeys to do all of their work, and then eventually even chew their food for them, and then finally the monkeys are the ones controlling the people.
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This is my experience, and belief as well. My confidence is served by history, and empirical data seen minute to minute in real-time updates since Prodigy/Compuserve days.
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Techbros are pushing it because it allows them to charge a subscription for a basic human ability. Thinking.
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Coupled with near-dearth of media literacy, it's a recipe for disaster
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I was never sure where / how the Eloi could have gotten so…. pathetic.

Now that path becomes painfully plausible.
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And wipe out common sense.
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And it's wrong enough, inane enough, racist enough, that were I to use it, I have to devote hours to correcting it, which sucks up my teaching and research time. Thank you for taking such a clear and principled stand.
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bsky.app/profile/astrokatie.com/post/3lrxfsxnkms2c
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Since it just grabs word sequences, I think a lot of their “answers” are just stupid people’s questions.

My son was looking up something (he works as a docent at the Boston Tea Party museum), and a google chatbot told him that Sam Adams is John Adams’ father.

Think it came from “is Sam Adams…?”
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Same Adams is not his father but it might have had something to do with his conception
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Big, neck-hurting nods
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My district is pushing this aggressively to staff. Seems like a main motive is that instead of giving teachers & disabled students more time/resources, AI is supposed to "make things easier" & provide "accessibility". 🤨 I hope they also realize test scores will go down because of student AI use...
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one of the worst things I've seen/ heard about: teachers INSTRUCTING their students to use Chat GPT rather than think their own way through a given critical essay question. WTAF, I thought when I heard this. truly.
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I will go one step further and say it is a theft of the mind.
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It's a great tool for old people like me who have a lifetime of context with which to create concise precise queries... and enough of a bs filter to not take it at face value. But for kids and young adults? Seems super bad
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And I resent the way companies are trying to force it. The other day Slack emailed saying they were adding AI to their product that already functions fine. I immediately cancelled that account. I don’t want it. It is not a benefit or feature. It is a yoke. I am happy on this hill even if I am alone
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thank you. I sometimes feel like I’m screaming in the void about this.
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Generative ai is trash and worse than useless.
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With you.
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You aren't alone.
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I’m on this hill, too. The dumbing-down is the worst part of everything g that’s happening. It’s what caused everything that’s happening.
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You're far from alone.
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You're far from alone. I remember tooling around in DOS while sitting on my dad's lap and being wowed by the GUI in like Windows 3.1 (3.0? I was a kid). I watched all this amazing technology rise up with so much potential and now it's just a tool for the enshitification of everything.
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You’re definitely not alone!
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You aren’t alone.
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You are not alone. It is clearly destroying people's ability to think.
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Former college professor of political theory here. I’m on this hill with you!
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You are definitely not alone. I’m gagging on AI everyday at work and pestered by it everyday at home. Don’t want it, didn’t ask for it! It’s an excuse to lay off more employees with the illusion of relief from technology. And it just mucks up the art and creativity I find solace in.
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Curious what part of your life Slack was for. Books? Magazine?

Also, hi! Hello!
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There’s at least two of us here.
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You are not alone.
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I am in full agreement! So tired of being asked if I want AI to help. Damnit, I am not helpless!
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you're definitely not alone. i'm no academic. i don't even have a college degree. it pains me to see young people waste their time, opportunities & future like this.
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You’re not alone. I’m tired of this technology being forced on everyone. We didn’t ask for it and the default for the functionality is always set to “on”.
Hard pass.
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you’re not alone. Carry on, Queen!!
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Have been on this hill from the beginning. An excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY about how the very idea of what 'human' means is at risk: lithub.com/were-already-at-risk-of-ceding-our-humanity-to-ai/
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Not alone.
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You're not alone.
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There is no consumer demand driving this mad dash in adding AI in the everything as well
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You are not alone.
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Nope. I have so far refused to use it for the same reasons you mentioned. And I work in IT. If it weren’t for software that isn’t easy to use on Linux, I would drop Windows. But I’ve turned off and uninstalled everything I can on Windows 11.
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You’re not alone.
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you are not alone!
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100% agree
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You're not alone.
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is this seat taken? *sits down, opens a book*
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You are not alone. I ripped Windows off all my computers over it, I wish there was a phone that wasn't pushing it. I refuse to use it at work; the company I work for has developed their own AI model and been trying to get us to engage it, and I simply refuse.
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You are not alone on that hill.
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You are definitely not alone. I’ve hated AI from the beginning. It’s going to accelerate climate change and completely remove critical thinking skills from those that rely on it
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I would also like to claim a seat on the hill, please.
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We're with you. We wrote a whole book on it! thecon.ai
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I am the same. The fact that these companies aren’t offering an opt-out option is appalling. Why is AI use a requirement for internet use now? I hate it so much.
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They are horribly and aggressively intrusive .
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I'm probably an outlier but I spend hours and hours finding lectures from people whose views I've read and taking in their intelligence.

That intelligence is a product of 1000s and 1000s of hours of directed study flowing through a human mind living on the same earth I do.

AI will NEVER be such
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You’re not alone. It will cripple young people’s abilities to excel at anything if they come to rely on it - then over time huge swathes of human knowledge and experience with real life will be lost.
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I’m with you on AI.
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A lot of itnis just repackaging old/existing features as AI

"Spotifys brand new AI will pick songs based on your past listening habits!"
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Let me join you on that hill. It’s a freaking curse.
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You are not alone.
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AI IS NOT INEVITABLE!
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You're not alone.
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You are not alone.
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With you on the hill. Will die here.
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You are absolutely not alone! AI is the worst!
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You are not alone
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You aren’t alone by any means.
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Trust me, you are NOT alone on this hill.
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You're not alone. I was really disappointed that Obama said it was inevitable. The majority of the talk was brilliant. I get mad that people come on here saying why doesn't Obama say something? Like basically leave him alone but, please don't promote the forrest & water destroying bad spellchecker.
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Not alone x 100000000000.....
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Banning it in my classrooms even as my uni system formally implements it across campuses.
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You are not alone.
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You are not remotely alone.
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On that hill with you. My job is ramming it down our throats. Really frustrating.
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So not alone.
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Definitely not alone.
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I'm also convinced that the term AI is being slapped onto things that aren't really AI too, just because it's a buzz word. Like things that used to be described as smart appliances or algorithms. Supposedly my phone uses AI to find stronger networks to connect to, but that just sounds like a sensor
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I had a 520+ day streak on Duolingo, but when they announced firing staff and turning to AI, I deleted the app and my account
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It's the worst, and its aggressive marketing is forcing me to reevaluate a lot of things around the technologies and services that I use. How far will I go to escape it? And what if no one comes with me?
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It sucks and it is anti-human.
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Have you noticed this hill is getting a little crowded now? You are most certainly not alone.
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Definitely not alone.
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you're definitely not alone on this hill.
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Every new mass market tech product of the past 10 years has failed. So now an apocalyptic level of capital is invested in AI. They absolutely have to force it on you. There is, however, an excellent chance that the industry will collapse. Open AI spent 9 billion to lose 5 billion last year.
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Completely agree. Can't stand that they are forcing it on us and I am running around uninstalling.
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"We're gonna need a bigger hill."
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You are not alone.
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I now have it on my MS Teams account from work. I do not want it. When I google something, the first thing I get is an AI summary. I do not want it. I teach scientific writing. I do not want my students using it when the whole point of the course it to teach them to write effectively.
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You’re not alone.
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You aren't alone on this hill. This AI "craze" is wasting too much time, too much money, too many resources, and TOO MANY BRAINS.
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It's probably a very big hill because there's a lot of us on it.
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I’m sick of it being forced on us in every avenue of our lives.
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It ONLY benefits the tech companies, now and long term.

I'm spending my time driving up search counts for "how to disable AI in [insert program]"
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It was a source of great disappointment to me to have to turn it off (twice) on duckduckgo but at least the option is there.

I need to get back in the habit of using non-google maps too.
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You are not alone!
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I wish the media lab would also consult more educators though cuz using SAT tests seems less than ideal, hopefully more to come
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My phone updated yesterday and added a bunch of AI crap. I really am considering trying to undo the so called update
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You are not alone.
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My sista you are not alone. I feel the exact same way!! 🙏🏽✊🏾
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I’m on that hill as well!
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I, too, am on this hill. AI isn’t just making people lazy and dumb, it’s also wrong way too often to even consider using it as a tool.
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not that you need me as an ally since you have many but I will die on that hill with you. You won't be alone.
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I fully agree with you Roxane!
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You won't be alone. However, AI rejectionists may find ourselves systematically deprived of channels through which to communicate, which seems like it could be isolating.
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you are absolutely not alone! it is a feature i do NOT want and it is clearly and rapidly undermining my students’ capacity to… have and express thoughts about literally anything. it is a tool to pacify critical thinkers and suppress creative thought. do not want!!!
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taking a break from grading 40-plus papers to say that you are not alone
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Not alone. It's use is depressing and horrifying. I know medical doctors using chat gpt in their essays.
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Sadly, my workplace uses Slack. I agree. I even told them I do not want, or need AI in slack. Half my messages are informal.
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Butlerian J-yo!!!
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you're not alone, i fucking hate AI too
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I ran a workshop based around this at #ALDCon25 this week - challenge participants to think of ways we can engage students in deep learning and criticality in our teaching
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Truthfully the game was lost when autocorrect appeared. Fewer people know how to spell much of their own vocabulary. And younger generations appear unbothered that they don’t know how to spell a litany of basic vocabulary. And then came autocomplete.
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And I guess if you want to get truly granular, Spell Check was the harbinger of things to come.
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I work in medical publishing and so many of our authors, who are instructors/department heads, see this every day. Guys, you do not want your OT or PT to coast their way into their profession.
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Nursing students too!! My mom is a professor. It’s not good.
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In the future, at many schools, grades will be determined by who has a subscription to the best AI. 🙁 At least the pupils whose pushy parents "help" with homework essays will have more competition now.

Except if some schools remember what their actual mission is supposed to be.
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Great way to stop critical thinking skills too.
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It's a fascist scam of a human masquerade for manipulation and minority control.

Which is why the oligarchs backing it ignore the inevitable loop of regression from modeling itself as well as the exponential energy waste endangering us all.

bsky.app/profile/roxanegay.bsky.social/post/3lry3mljcbk24
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It's an interesting argument that ChatGPT and its ilk are a deliberate plot to undermine human cognitive abilities, rather than assuming that the rapid uptake in use reflects students who are already disengaged from their studies, and want rewards whilst feeling no compulsion to work towards them.
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"It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology."

To be fair, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not the future.
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Stunning new book.
Its brilliant, courageous author is on Bluesky:
@karenhao.bsky.social

Artfully articulated, detailed, deeply researched, exquisitely organized, beautifully constructed.

Exponentially insightful.

EMPIRE OF AI • Karen Hao

Essential. Consequential. Riveting.
✨Don’t miss Ch. 9, 12
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I just started this and am already riveted.
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bsky.app/profile/maniraptor.bsky.social/post/3kvkxh5ju3n2h
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www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/
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The purpose of a system is what it does. So, yeah, it can be hyped as the next big thing for everything, but it’s the first medium (if it can be called that) to legitimately make us dumber.
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Ditto map reading & GPS

(Am guilty of this)
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I just started graduate school, and all 2 group projects have been me managing my assigned partners’ AI usage. The quality of their work is poor and I’m made to feel like a shrew for insisting they write independently.
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And to further erode trust in facts and legacy institutions.
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youtu.be/giT0ytynSqg?si=tyaZoRa6upr0bAU6
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I like to use AI for research, but it lies and makes stuff up, so what good is it? Using it for writing is bad enough, but using it for construction calculations, medical research, legal briefs..???? We're in real trouble!
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yikes

Triple here
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Can you think of any new technology in human history that cannot be used for both immense good and immense bad?

Also true that technology advancement is the best tool we have as a species to lift people out of poverty.
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The thing that shocked me the most about AI, other than how often it is wrong, is how much it falls over itself serving up excessive flattery & ass kissing. No wonder tech bros like it so much. 😬
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Yep. I use ChatGPT a lot and there is a tremendous amount of flattery and ass kissing. It often thanks *me* for the results of something it just did. I wonder how much energy goes into computing cycles to generate new complements. Will the future of tech be an army of ass kissing robotic yes-men?
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During the summer Olympics last year, google was advertising its AI, and the ads blatantly targeted African Americans. I thought that was telling of overall goals
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Thank you!!! I get so frustrated when people don't understand this.
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From the corporate world, I'm dealing with a couple of coworkers who are uncritically trusting LLMs. The quality of their work has been going downhill, and directly increasing my own workload as I have to explain why they can't submit and execute garbage.
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(Whispers) Letttt themmmm faiiiil 😈
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True! And let’s not forget the massive amount of environmental resources it wastes!
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