the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers - ThreadSky

mikedrucker.bsky.social • 77 days ago

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

Reposted from Christine Kooi

UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...

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oliviaunicorn.bsky.social•76 days ago

I hate these people so much. Almost as much as they seem to hate all of us.

marclivolsi.bsky.social•77 days ago

I’m so fecking tired of “disruptors” blowing stuff up so they profit from the enshittification of all public good.

“The Enshittification of The Commons” is herewith a principle.

contrails.bsky.social•77 days ago

We need to teach A.I. about the evilness of billionaires, and how harmful they are to the human species. Billionaires/wealthy are the real threat to all our futures.

markricehistory.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is why my immediate response to anyone promoting the "quality" of AI and/or all-online course offerings is to ask: "What's the ratio of online to in-person classes offered to Harvard undergrads?"

juadog.bsky.social•77 days ago

Every instance I come across of AI in everyday life is second rate nonsense dug up from the input into the system. AI is even incapable of accurately doing subtitles on a video. The same word will be spelt and typed differently on every other occurrence. Clearly not reliable for decision making.

genxkaren.bsky.social•77 days ago

I watched a YouTube video that pronounced 4chan as “FourShawn” but pronounced 8chan correctly. It was facepalm all around.

abbie4science.bsky.social•77 days ago

and students will pay for that?

mitchellcolbert.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yea, it is the inevitable next step of the war on public education. Underfund public schools until they can only afford robot/AI "teachers," while the rich get to send their kids to government-subsidized private schools with actual human teachers.

jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social•77 days ago

Who the hell would pay for that?

madamehardy.bsky.social•77 days ago

As I understand it, Waldorf schools are wildly popular in Silicon Valley. If, of course, you can afford them.

cv-danes.com•77 days ago

And be rich enough to have actual human servants.

kristaxavier.bsky.social•77 days ago

The words “human teachers” and the implications therein sent a chill up my spine dude

pameladisrupts.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is just the beginning. Typically stuff like this is tested out in niche spaces before mass roll out. Rather than pay and support teachers they’ll just “innovate” them out. Then we wonder why our literacy rates & ability to think critically are in the pits of hell.

lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social•77 days ago

Human-taught classes will be a luxury. AI slurry for the masses

asakiyume.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is EXACTLY what I've been saying. Same with medicine, same with everything else. "You-all learn from a chatbot. We get humans."

asm-145psalm.bsky.social•77 days ago

Be nice to Siri. She’ll eventually have grandchildren.

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•77 days ago

Asa teacher, we were told technology would take our jobs and we would need to pivot for decades.
Then COVID hit.

Good luck with the robots teaching your kids and wondering why your child lacks very basic academic and social skills.

drewc.bsky.social•77 days ago

A worker that can’t read or form bonds with other workers will never be able to improve their position. That’s the goal.

jennmelb.bsky.social•77 days ago

Spot on! Take away the tools which once allowed workers (and women) to better their own lives and protect the profits.

scirocker.bsky.social•77 days ago

Used SNAP AI the other night to check some chemistry calculations. Only 75% of them were correct. That stuff is unreliable.

88corbs.bsky.social•76 days ago

Same as it ever was.

tonydelgado.bsky.social•76 days ago

My expectation is this will be revealed to be about the publishing treadmill, which requires you to avoid the time sink of pedagogy as much as possible.

aaronblackshear.bsky.social•77 days ago

And human doctors, and human therapists

kjr1990.bsky.social•77 days ago

"In the end it is the poor who will be chained to the computer; the rich will get teachers." - Stephen Kindel, Forbes technology editor, 1984.

His full argument runs past 280 characters, but he predicted everything that could go wrong with e-learning 40 years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0323/6106134a.html?sh=5866058356fd

huh-nope.bsky.social•77 days ago

A.I. and robotics will make humans obsolete to the elite.
The human species can perpetuate with less than 1,000,000 on Earth sharing 100% of Earth's resources in inconceivable luxury. Billions of 'takers' and 'eaters' is illogical.
KEEP giving the unaccountable rich more wealth & power.

stiney.bsky.social•77 days ago

The human teachers will, of course, still be underpaid.

lathc.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yep, when I lived in Silicon Valley I learned many of the tech CEOs sent their kinds to Waldorf, Montessori, etc. Also, none had facebook accounts.

scottmaceachern.bsky.social•77 days ago

While I was at Bowdoin, one of America’s largest MOOC proponents was sending his child there. It was going to change the face of education, apparently, except for his family.

scottmaceachern.bsky.social•77 days ago

While I was at Bowdoin, one of America’s largest MOOC proponents was sending his child there. It was going to change the face of education, apparently, except for his family.

ashtynbrianne.bsky.social•77 days ago

No one should sign up for this.

shinkeith.bsky.social•77 days ago

Same way the ghouls who developed smartphones and social media didn't let their kids use it.

edsurridge.bsky.social•77 days ago

The human teachers won't be nearly as good

lucysussex.bsky.social•77 days ago

It's a mindless fad, and I underline mindless

methodnull.bsky.social•77 days ago

thelionseye.bsky.social•77 days ago

Well, the kids have to learn about Tek War sooner or later

taradeenihan.bsky.social•77 days ago

Of course they’re starting with the humanities.

billieiswriting.bsky.social•77 days ago

It is a particular turd cherry on this crap cake that they are doing it for a humanities program class.

m00psy.bsky.social•76 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/m00psy.bsky.social/post/3lcpxhpibs22g

pulsararray.bsky.social•76 days ago

There are already previews of this. One selling point of some SV bay area private schools is precisely they don't use laptops or tablets in classrooms.

forceholy.bsky.social•76 days ago

I mean, the rich are already sending their kids to schools where cell phone use is verboten.

anjvs.bsky.social•77 days ago

Can’t wait to go into debt to learn all about nerniacular Latin to an evoolitun of nance langusages

okoyessmile.bsky.social•77 days ago

🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

bdonnelly.bsky.social•77 days ago

You mean the same ones that sold us all this mind control surveillance tech that we keep in our pockets but they won’t let their own kids get exposed to it?

jayslacks.bsky.social•77 days ago

The failure rate of distance learning classes are horrible. This will be worse. Students just won't do the work.

lakers-lover.bsky.social•77 days ago

They're also going to be the people allowed to keep their jobs even tho AI could do it because they already hold the power

shahinsaloom.bsky.social•77 days ago

The Fall, or Dodge in He'll. Stephenson knew a decade ago

shenloop.bsky.social•77 days ago

Excellent UCLA can cut professor Stahuljak's pay in 1/2 and cut student tuition... thank you professor Stahuljak.

yerabbits.bsky.social•77 days ago

why do they want to devalue their degrees so badly?

partsch.bsky.social•76 days ago

AI Crypto Technocrat in the Streets, Tradwifed conservative homesteader in the Sheets

wordlight.bsky.social•77 days ago

Remember folks, you can stop this from being the case with one simple trick

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•77 days ago

There won't be any human teachers left. Numbers are already down near critical level for some subjects

laviniaspeaks.bsky.social•77 days ago

Oh GOOD another entire sector they want to capture. -sobs in Artist and academia-

sunnymarrs.bsky.social•77 days ago

These power bros with too much ketamine, adderall, and false bravado somehow have a say

sunnymarrs.bsky.social•77 days ago

Wow. 🙃

sarahsunfire.bsky.social•77 days ago

YESSSSS just like the tech execs who ban tech in their houses and make their kids play strictly with wooden toys (wow it sounds made up when I put it that way but this is a thing)

actuary92637.bsky.social•77 days ago

Kind of like the rich people saying class size doesn’t matter who all send their kids to private schools who universally brag about their ultra low student to teacher ratios.

cosmic-snark.bsky.social•77 days ago

I taught my African American students how A.I. lies about slavery The Salem Witch Trials Onesimus. Cotton Mather. Amanirenus. And so many other historical events. Shocking lies! But PhotoMath is their friend.

catomama.bsky.social•77 days ago

And you still have a job? Shocking.

crazytalk.bsky.social•77 days ago

If you read what they're actually doing, it sounds fine/good to me:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence

easternblot.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yeah, it sounds like it’s not so much a “textbook”, but more that she used AI to help her turn her own lesson material into a more elaborate syllabus to make the lectures more efficient.

amosmagliocco.bsky.social•76 days ago

Nobody read the article. Fitting!

mikedrucker.bsky.social•76 days ago

I read the article. It sounds awful. Sorry.

crazytalk.bsky.social•76 days ago

Which part sounds awful?

writerartisteh.bsky.social•77 days ago

Ugh.

lrshedupodcast.bsky.social•77 days ago

AI Child warehouses for the poor

Expensive private schools for the wealthy

drramblings.bsky.social•77 days ago

I’ll never forget reading a profile on Bill Gates. He talked about when his kids were younger they used the kitchen computer and read in the library in their house. They limited screen time bc they knew.

antai-tr.bsky.social•76 days ago

Son ricos suicidas ya que la IA podría ser que elimine el capitalismo. Su mejor jugada sería intentar ilegalizarla

jennrgraham.bsky.social•77 days ago

This spikes my blood pressure. What purpose does this serve??

tonylizza.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes, that’s usually the way it works. “The poor get processed by algorithms and the rich get processed by people.”

ericleitzen.bsky.social•77 days ago

Techno-feudalism

davebrowne.bsky.social•77 days ago

Of ALL the courses to not generate with AI, Comparative Literature is the most to not generate with AI.

jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social•76 days ago

My husband used AI to generate some ESL lessons this week, but they’re only acceptable because his 30 years of teaching experience made him know what to ask for and how to edit the result. But the corporations are going to want the experienced people laid off and unedited AI to just do its thing.

rogueresistknitter.bsky.social•77 days ago

But they'll be paying for it with school vouchers on our dime.

notadcconsultant.bsky.social•74 days ago

Our democracy depends on an educated public and the voucher lobby is working hard to destroy public education.
#saveourschools
https://actionnetwork.org/events/school-vouchers-the-assault-on-public-education

atxsupermom77.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is so shameful. I never thought that our annihilation would be quite this stupid.

nml-dc.bsky.social•77 days ago

I think about this all the time, how rich people are able to protect themselves and their kids from covid and they can go back to live-in private education if they want. It's fucked up.

patentbuddy.bsky.social•76 days ago

I was talking to a ChemEng prof who suggested that ChemE have one class where reports had to be prepared using chatgpt. He also indicated that lab classes reduced the page number of lab results reports to no more than four pages.

gforce0ne.bsky.social•77 days ago

Can the classwork be ai generated?

deborahahrens.bsky.social•76 days ago

As someone who lives in Bull Gates land, this tracks.

foxessa.bsky.social•77 days ago

You damn betcha that will be the case.

Also they will brag about eating steak, while the rest of us eat insects.

justarandomface.bsky.social•77 days ago

It'll also be the same rich people claiming their companies earned record breaking profits with a payroll of two people

nosuperhero.bsky.social•59 days ago

Billionaires have already proven they have the ability to create alternate realities for 50% of Americans using algorithmic terrorism. Imagine what they have planned with AI.
#AbolishBillionaires
#SaveHumanityEatTheRich

jeffabbott.bsky.social•77 days ago

artisanal human education

nb0nfa1.bsky.social•77 days ago

100%

simpleniceness.bsky.social•77 days ago

Let’s start pursuing off-world colonies

ottersimple.bsky.social•77 days ago

On what planet does a comparative lit class need an AI anything? You use last year's syllabus and switch out the least relevant book for a book people agree is a pretty good sub. It takes like 15 minutes for a trained human being to generate this course - as it should!

laughatbrian.bsky.social•76 days ago

Having 6 fingers on each hand is a pre-requisite to this course.

jdcshaverford.bsky.social•77 days ago

Apparently lost on UCLA is the irony of the title of the AI generated textbook, "History and Fiction."

trixxyil.bsky.social•76 days ago

Educated people outsourcing themselves. We deserve what befalls us.

rollforsanity.bsky.social•77 days ago

In a number of sci fi futuristic books, the wealthy have human servants, the less so have to make do with robots

Sci fi writers tend to see things more clearly than we'd expect

carolh1.bsky.social•77 days ago

Course proposal listed seems ridiculous to me.

petnoodle.bsky.social•76 days ago

If I'd gone to UCLA I'd definitely quit donating to the alumni association over that. What a horrible disservice to the students.

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