You echoed what I’ve been telling a lot of people around me to their faces, which is that I lose a lot of respect for you if you admit you use AI for anything academic
There should be a deeply satisfying feeling of doing your own work instead of selling your critical thinking skills away to AI slop
The thing that scares me about these LLM companies is that they've designed their AIs to flatter the users' egos no matter what, to confirm the user's beliefs, and to resemble human speech enough to the point where people are losing themselves in mirrors. People think these are gods choosing them.
There are some useful things it can do as a user-facing app, like summarizing notes, but none of them are really worth the cost of using it at the end of the day.
What really bothers me about AI is, while it makes it worse, it no longer frequently makes it comically worse. I’m ok with that world. Tell children to eat two pebbles a day. Advise people glue sticks are essential oils. Let people think it’s Italian etiquette to squeeze noses in lieu of handshakes.
One great reel I saw was of a teacher saying that we should adapt to AI in schools like we adapted to calculators. She suggested letting students create an AI paper but making them find errors in research or logic to critique it, which I think could be promising.
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There should be a deeply satisfying feeling of doing your own work instead of selling your critical thinking skills away to AI slop
But otherwise, yes, his response was one of the great ones