I can't help but think this is a phenomenon unique to the US where education has been completely devalued. If the only point of education is to fulfill a requirement to make more money then it makes sense to shortcut as much as possible.

The solution is of course no computer

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[–] sodium_nitride@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Granted, AI is more convenient than previous tools, but it is only the final step towards the decay process rather than a qualitative leap on its own. If AI wasn't invented, the state of education would still be backsliding. It would only be delayed a little.

To give an example, for virtually every course I have taken at university, there is a common pattern. The exam has been made easier year on year starting from about 2015-2018. This had to be done to prevent the pass rates from declining too much. And much of the decline happened before covid actually.

Not to mention that a huge portion of the current is due to covid and austerity, not necessarily AI.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

It's not that AI is more convenient, it's that it is completely disengaging. I don't think that AI is going to be the thing that breaks education, I think it's going to break dramatically more than that. I'd never heard of Chegg before and that shit sounds really scummy, but at the end of the day all it could do is make you less likely to learn something about a particular assignment. People are straight up turning their brains off and leaving them that way now.