[wohoef]

I'm quite worried by this post. After reading the first paragraph it is obvious that this is AI generated, or at least heavily edited by AI. Read some of the other comments on this post for examples of how this is obvious.

The author is a professor in Computer Science at Yale. As well as an ex-research at Microsoft and IBM. You would think this person has the necessary writing skills to write this article themselves. There is no excuse to use AI for writing this. It makes it much harder to read. And always leaves me wondering if I don't understand the point the author is trying to make or if there wasn't one to begin with.

Overall I'm just annoyed by how often I see people use genAI to write stuff for them. Do they think people won't realize it is generated by AI? Do they just not care? Or has it become socially acceptable to write emails, articles, and memos with AI? Just give me the f***g prompt. Then at least I don't have to deal with reading the AI slop.

Let alone how ironic it is to write an article that talks about AI in education, with AI.

PS: I'm not trying to attack the author. This is becoming a widespread issue and I don't want to single him out.

[MagicMoonlight]

You're seeing behind the curtain. It turns out that professors at Yale are morons, just like everyone else. As are the people that work at Microsoft and IBM. Almost everyone in the world is.

We have a lot of good marketing to try and persuade people that everyone isn't a moron, but ultimately you can't change the fact that they are. That's why you'll notice that 99% of work in every organisation is done by a handful of people.

[bombdailer]

People don't care, in fact the average person finds LLM writing to be some of the best since it's so good at effortlessly conveying information (of what value..?). That ease of course comes with the loss of the real intent of the author. No longer their words, bearing no mark of effort and discernment, it becomes assimilated into the corpus of all that unthinking, unfeeling machination that lingers breathlessly with no pulse. No life exists in those empty words, no one who will take the stand to defend them, to hold them as true by the fire they alight in oneself. No, the LLM provides a cold flame, only pretty to look at - providing only the image of warmth. But perhaps the LLM reflects the soul of the modern person, who in becoming more machine like, comes to find their home amongst the shadows of that dim blue light.

[marssaxman]

I do not understand why so many people are so supremely confident that they can accurately identify AI-assisted writing. The "tells" they cite generally strike me as unremarkable features of normal human writing.