AI and Education
2025-05-19 21:14:46.384119+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop
Thesis: ChatGPT is destroying education, students keep using it to cheat on homework and exams.
Antithesis: ChatGPT has no understanding of facts or semantics.Synthesis: Homework and exams don't measure understanding of facts or semantics, and can be fooled by plausible-sounding bullshit.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ @xgranade@wandering.shop
It'd be nice if tech companies didn't take an accelerationist approach to exacerbating and widening every problem that already existed in society, but they have.
The best defense, in some ways, is to fix the shit that's always kinda-sorta-maybe worked. In this case, yeah, it sucks that ChatGPT is DDoSing existing problems with academic evaluation methods, but it is... fixing those *is* a form of resisting the further incursion of AI into educational settings.