[Yaina]

It's somewhat besides the point of the piece and might be unfair, but I can't help to feel an immediate sense of distrust for any piece of writing that uses AI images.

Anyways, tying lending terms to the value of the degree sounds like a horrible idea, because how do you even determine that?

Seems to me the big issue is A) that the loans are managed b private companies with ridiculous terms and that even public state universities can basically behave like private companies by increasing prices this much.

Why can't the government not just radioactive prices for their own universities

[csa]

> It's somewhat besides the point of the piece and might be unfair, but I can't help to feel an immediate sense of distrust for any piece of writing that uses AI images.

Im guessing that you’re probably not representative of the target audience, or the author doesn’t know his audience well.

The image is thematically appropriate. I don’t think the author is trying to bamboozle anyone with that image.

[in_cahoots]

My problem is that it’s extremely poorly-done. The chain seems to sprout from the first student’s hair. If the author couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the first thing people see when they click on the webpage, how much thought is put into the rest of the article?

[topheroo]

Same here about distrusting pieces that use AI art. It’s like… a signifier of something hard to describe — values, qualities — that makes me want to listen to someone’s point of view less.

[AnimalMuppet]

It's a sign of low effort, maybe? If they're not putting much effort into the art, maybe they're not putting much into the writing, either. Maybe not even into the thinking.