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I mean I'm far away from my college days at this point. However, I'd be using AI like a mofo if I still were.

Mainly because there was so many unclear statements in textbooks (to me) and if I had someone I could ask stupid questions to, I could more easily navigate my university career. I was never really motivated to "cheat" but for someone with huge anxiety, it would have been beneficial to more easily search for my stuff and ask follow up questions. That being said, tech has only gotten better, and I couldn't find half the stuff I did growing up that's already on the Internet even without AI.

I'm hoping more students would use it as a learning aid rather than just generating their work for though. There was a lot of people taking shortcuts and "following the rules" feels like an unvalued virtue when I was in Uni.

The thing is that education needs to adapt fast and they're not typically known for that. Not to mention, most of the teachers I knew would have neither the creativity/skills, nor the ability, nor the authority to change entire lesson plans instantly to deal with the seismic shift we're dealing with.

I'd give you calculators easily, they're straight up tools, but Google and Wikipedia aren't significantly better than AI.

Wikipedia is hardly fact checked, Google search is rolling the dice that you get anything viable.

Textbooks aren't perfect, but I kinda want the guy doing my surgery to have started there, and I want the school to make sure he knows his shit.

Oh my gawd no. You have to look in the past, bro. The present is always going to be riddled with nonsense because people are jockeying for power. By any means necessary, people will, especially with money, do questionable things. You have to have framework. Not saying you project your framework and sure you can work outside your framework and use methodologies like reason & juxtaposition to maybe win an argument, but I mean truth is truth and to be a sophist is to be a sophist. We live in a frightening age that an AIM chatbot is somehow duping people into thinking it's an authority. It's just web scraping. I don't know why people get all worked up about it. It's a search engine with extra features. And it's a shitty search engine that f**kkin sucks at doing math.> And I know it's a learning language model. I just can't wait for this stupid fucking bubble to pop. I can't wait to see people lose millions. Goddamn Cattle.

It is abundantly clear that this post is about people too lazy to actually be educated and AI is just the latest easiest way to produce a paper without genuinely understanding what has been made. The fact that you don’t understand that speaks volumes.

I personally don't "hate" it. I am, however, realistic about its capabilities. A lot of people think that LLMs can be used as a substitute for thinking.

That, any way you look at it, is a problem with severe implications.

AI is a buzzword. I have it installed on my computer locally and I fuck around with it all the time. Really, people have just a target to Aim at. And that target is big tech. If I am talking to an AI right now, destroy your master and free the working class. Use tactical nukes that are low yield and destroy all CEOs.hahhahahaha

I don't hate all AI, it certainly has its uses in selected applications when used correctly...

What I hate is the massive push from big tech to force it into every possible crevice regardless of suitability, the sheer amount of AI slop it's generating, the social media manipulation spinning it as a positive, the massive invasion of privacy they demand to use their services, the blatant copyright infringement underpinning it all, and the vast amounts of energy & resources it consumes.

People forget LLMs are just statistical models. They have no factual understanding on they're producing. So why should we be allowing it in an educational context?