this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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Taught for a while. Last few years students went from turning in plagiarised essays with small enough tweaks to pass detection to full on LLM-written bullshit that they couldn't even explain when asked. The turning point was when parents started defending their kids submission of AI slop, even when it would begin "As a language learning model,..."
Really it just comes down to laziness. We can't ignore it as a tool, but man is it going to make a lot of people dumb. I also foresee many of the dumb ones thinking they are actually the smart ones, and self thinkers will be viewed as stupid. Definitely not out of the question.
100% agree. I regularly use spellcheck and access encyclopedias / dictionaries to doublecheck myself. I think grammarly was a great invention. But, once it went from analyzing voice/tone/mood to fully written block text many people just assumed they didn't have to learn to write anymore. My humble brag is that I don't use predictive text on any device. That makes me slower than others to respond. But in my mind it means I have to think about how to articulate just a bit more and, personally, I think I read more closely because of that too.
Wait...are normals actually using predictive text? Now I'm depressed. I remove that crap on every device