- I vaguely recall some people getting super upset (like, end-democracy-about-it upset) over the learning loss associated with one semester of remote school in the recent pandemic?
“Massive #s of students are going to emerge... who are essentially illiterate. Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate + having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.” This isn't the only reason AI is bad, but it's why it is bad for students.
- I tried to good faith earnestly think about what I would use ChatGPT for, and I came back with nothing. This isn’t a brag, maybe it would be different if I worked in tech, but I can not understand why anyone else would use it
- Reading your reply I just realized that as someone who occasionally writes, both fiction and non-, not *once* have I even considered using an LLM even to assist. So I think I am bragging?
- Right? Like I just wrote out a thorough printmaking tutorial for beginners yesterday, and it never once occurred to me to ChatGPT it, and thinking about it now I’m certain it would have fucked it up anyway
- And then there’s the thinking part of it, inextricable from literacy, and beyond. We need to reverse course from machine dependence.
