currently in education, genuinely feel like putting students heads through their desks because they think my specialized knowledge can be replicated by a line of code. No I know what you don't know and that you cheated because this wasn't in the readings and when you talk it's clear you didn't even do those. People are genuinely losing what little critical thinking they had and this is a nightmare.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Will probably result in a population even more susceptible to propaganda.

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago

100%. I don't think that was an intended consequence but it definitely is happening. People already chose not to think, no they can externalize it to a source that will by default agree with the status quo.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Out goes one kind of naivete, "Gramma said it so it's right," and in comes another: "the LLM has spoken; this is universal truth, not Gramma's small-minded rubbish." But now we can be smug against ol' boomer Gramma, so we lap it up all the more dearly.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The boomers with the “kids and always being on their damn phones” rhetoric did a lot to delegitimize a pressing issue that kids can now easily dismiss

But I’m not going to lie, it’s kinda fun to track this and see that those with a “hahahahaha good luck getting a job with that degree” are correct about things that actually matter in life.

[–] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, I've realised being on my phone a lot is probably a big part of a lot of problems in my life, but because old folks criticized it in such a silly way, it's hard to genuinely talk about it.

But yeah students are asking shit like "why make art" and this is actually scary as hell.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same here, though I’m reminded of one of my undergrad classes in my technological ethics course where my professor talked about trade-offs with phones and how you risk being left behind if you don’t use all the new phone programs/apps because it’ll be ubiquitous eventually

I think we’ve reached the ubiquitous part now