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Theres a huge yawning chasm between fact and lie, in most cases.
Besides which, learning isn't really about facts. Essays aren't a list of facts. Its the conclusions drawn from the facts.
The essays I contemplated will be knowingly and deliberately false. Learning the subject matter behind those essays is incidental to the core lesson. These students will be learning the ease with which we can be deceived, and the importance of skepticism.
This sort of skepticism is especially important in a world dominated by deceitful AI.
Kids using AI to generate the kind of meaningless busywork forced on my generation is no more worrisome to me than kids not being able to read cursive, or turning to a calculator rather than spending time on long division.
Adults trusting AI summaries terrifies me. Reminds me of the cops in Demolition Man, or Manna.
You’re projecting your own hang ups with school to be universal. Assignments are a part of learning, because practice is a part of learning. It is not “meaningless busywork” for a violinist to practice the same song for hours a day, any more than it is to have a child practice reading and responding to literature or drilling math problems.
This anti intellectual streak is showing up everywhere. “Flat earthers” are invading physics Facebook groups and anti vaxxers are being put in charge of health organizations. There’s are symptoms of a world where the desire to learn is absent.
Think about the immediate context of this conversation even - you are not an educator (abundantly clear from the assignment you proposed), and I am. I have taken multiple classes on child development and how to educate them, and have been in the classroom in several different environments across eight years.
Sometimes, it is important that we be confused for a minute in the learning process. Sometimes, it is important that we struggle a little bit. There is a peak level of “stress” for learning. There needs to be a supportive environment that goes with that challenge, but without a combination of practice and a little bit of challenge things don’t really stick.
AI is fundamentally against. Type in the question, get an answer. The answer could be true or not, nothing you did in imputing the question can really have an impact on that. No where to grow, nothing to improve or learn.
These are the exact same arguments given for the advent of writing. People like you have been making these complaints since we first learned to write anything down.