People are dumb. People will always be dumb, there's no getting away from it.

We are just apes after all.

You haven't ran into someone doing this on work emails?

They don't read the full email they get, just far enough to see if they got what they want. Then they plug it into an AI, and tell it to respond, then copy/paste it back to Outlook and hit reply.

They'll keep doing that, over and over. And it usually ends up with them insisting on a meeting to "discuss" where they essentially get in a loop of "it'll work, just do it"

And it's like pulling fucking teeth to get them to admit the only thing they're basing that on, is a chatbot told them it would work.

People are worried about the kids, and we should be, but it rotted adults brains even faster, and because of their age they've got a much shorter clock to stop using it before effects are permanent. Couple with Covid related IQ drops and the fact that time is linear and we'll keep getting older...

Society is fucked.

We need to seriously treat AI like an addictive drug that people aren't capable of limiting themselves with.

Most people who use AI to write something can't be bothered to make sure it is correct. It pisses me off at work so bad when someone "writes" a document or does "research" with AI and just copy pastes it into an email without actually reading to see if it makes sense.

I got so pissed of a couple months ago when people were telling me about a "great research document" that someone put together for something we had coming up that we desperately needed information about. As soon as they shared the document to me I realized it was completely AI generated and 1/3 of it didn't make a lick of sense. I wanted to yell at the person who created it to at least take 10 minutes to delete all of the obviously incorrect crap.

The students cheating are only making the people with preAI degrees more desirable.

"What sets you apart from the others?"

• "My degree is pre AI so you know I didn't cheat"

What don't get is how they didn't see the "invisible" text when they were copying it to paste it into the AI. Any tool I've ever used to select and copy text highlights it in a way that would show the "invisible" part. Was the question just so long that they could easily miss it?

I love the story but I'm a little skeptical just because of this one detail.

I went to college in 90 and its kinda a wierd time as not to long before people would ask if you where going to college but by that time it was where you were going to college. So it was just as going to college was sorta expected. I too am blown away by that number of students but I think im thinking more of my major area where people genuinely (I think) were mostly motivated to learn about it and do it as a career. Myself I really did like the liberal arts education so was by and large equally avid in non majors classes. Thing is since then college has just become more and more this forgone conclusion and the pressure to be in a major that results in a career that pays over what one is interested in, I think is much higher. So I guess im not surprised. We really need people to be able to work and make enough to have a family on a single income without going to college (heck you can't even do that going to college now) or this stuff is just going to get worse.

Oral isn't necessary and can overwhelm even very smart and knowledgeable students.

Just require all work is turned in handwritten. Tests are also done handwritten.

That's it. It's impossible to not absorb the stupidity of AI if you at least have to handwrite the answer.

It's impossible to copy/paste an answer into a test if it's handwritten.

The only thing stopping this is that teachers are used to the convenience of computer submitted work, remote learning, and disability workarounds.

At least using AI but proofreading and fixing AI's mistakes uses your human brain to some degree. If they must use AI I'd rather they be smart enough to comprehend what it puts out and do at least some critical thinking of their own.