"The irony was hard to miss: the same month our union received layoff threats, OpenAI’s education evangelists set up shop in the university library to recruit faculty into the gospel of automated learning. The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115650272749921009
One of this article's many great points: Using #GenAI is a "metacognitive mirage".
> When participants used #ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed [-47%] in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged
> Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning not to learn.
#cognitiveDebt #StochasticParrots #MRI #brainDevelopment
#Chatversity replaces learning with cheating.
