Truly, it’s as if the purpose of assigning papers is to generate papers.
About to be Jokerfied by this blandly tossed-off statement in a piece about how the lie machines will never stop lying. Why concede that AI is "useful" in writing term papers? What is the purpose of writing assignments in education? Is AI accomplishing that purpose?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
I’m sorry to put it this way, but high school and college term papers, 99 percent of the time, have little value as completed work. They will never be remembered or read again. Generating them, in and of itself, is worth essentially nothing, particularly when they recapitulate existing work.
Particularly the idea of paying to go to college and then using an LLM to write your papers is throwing your money down a well. If you don’t want to do school, don’t do school! But don’t go into debt to learn nothing and end up with a stack of papers that almost seem believable.
They aren’t going to school to learn. They’re going because they think it’s a necessary box to tick on their path to get a job they can also cheat at and grift their way through in an effort to generate wealth.
May 5, 2025 15:30And businesses are hoping for universities to certify students so they don't have to, which generates the incentive for students to fake their way to a degree (if they can get the degree, nothing else matters). It's also a product of a business environment where being useful is at best optional.
It really is that. Absolutely dismal.
And businesses are hoping for universities to certify students so they don't have to, which generates the incentive for students to fake their way to a degree (if they can get the degree, nothing else matters). It's also a product of a business environment where being useful is at best optional.
