I would blame all of this on the goals of education no longer being about learning.
This was a problem before AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I would blame all of this on the goals of education no longer being about learning.
This was a problem before AI
Many of my classmates used chatgpt to write their code during the final exam.
tbf they wete already becoming useless, this just accelerated things.
schools have built themselves around around ratfucking public funds (via blank check loans to highschoolers, essentially), just like every other major industry in the US it seems
Well that's because the government doesn't want to fund them.
what is the source of this image? looks like there should be an article associated
Here's the article. It's an excellent read: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
This community really needs ~~better~~ moderation IMO.
Well if you are educated and you have kids then please be sure they get a good education because the opportunities for real educated people are gonna be limitless.
In what jobs, exactly?
The jobs that require actual skills and talent have never been compensated well, and the fluff executive jobs are reserved for Nepo babies and people with connections.
The only thing real education is going to be good for in the near future is increasing your knowledge and anxiety about how screwed everything is.
And also society suffers.
Tech companies spend fortunes of borrowed money they'll never recover *
Exactly. The LLM industry is operating at a loss of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Investors are just handing the world's wealth over to these companies that are going to go tits up the second they can't fund everything on hype anymore.
It's a race to become too big to fail.
oof :(
10 years before the first illiterate college grad.

Every time I see another AI headline, the Gamers Nexus "AI" video starts playing in my head.
degrees have bsen meaningless for a while if we're talking finding employment, LLMs just make it worse