I'm skeptical that AI is rendering a generation of students illiterate. I think college is such a formative experience that a lot of folks treat it as sacred. And I think we underestimate the prevalence of casual cheating and the number of folks who were always there just to get a piece of paper.
Which is not to say that AI tools are not problems for higher education. But I think there always have been and always will be students who are there to learn and students who are there to check off a box.
thats a fair point, but the effect is that with cheating as a service that the piece of paper becomes less valuable as a credential. like the paper is not useful for differentiating between who went to learn and who went to go. so at some point why have the paper at all.
May 7, 2025 15:30When I was in school there were websites were you could pay a few bucks to have someone write a paper for you. We've had cheating as a service. It's also long been true there are jobs out there were a degree is just a formality. The rubber meets the road when you take a job you're not qualified for.
the rubber meeting the road hasn't been my experience. in my experience social reproduction is more preferential over past performance. and as we go through this process of elite cycling credentialism, scientism and belligerence are incentivized over knowledge or even capability
why im so anti ai
All of that has always been true though
