I can't imagine being this wowed or scared about a bunch of fancy markov chains and (non)linear regression functions.

The answer to that last problem is:

1. Even if you dont want to the llm filtering resumes will kill your odds before you even see a human if you dont have the credentials

2. Course loads can be some bullshit, like individually they seem reasonable and then you take 4/5 and just never have free time again.

They dont make ai work, but they do make it appealing

I’m so glad my town is still using mid 2000’s tech so I never have to come across this shit regularly. I only hear about it in big cities where every other person sings it’s praises and see nothing wrong with how they use it for every little thing.

They’re more concerned with some fictional “AI taking over the world” scenario than the more bleak reality of it stunting everything.

15 years ago the equivalent was people googling something and always using the first link as gospel truth

these things are just glorified search engines that mangle up all the results and hide the leftovers from you

I mean it's acting as a great filter for a bunch of people who would've picked up the closest available tech any other time to do their work for them.

Before AI, it was websites that offered homework/essay writing services by outsourcing it to students in the global south, or just copying work and changing a few words to pass it off as your own.

Before that, it was copy-pasting Wikipedia/websites verbatim or paying something in meatspace to do the work for you.

We sorta end up with an amalgam of those previous things more sensibly, such as using Wikipedia for preliminary research and looking for useful primary sources, or using online services that offer personal tutoring or guides on subjects. It's dialectical materialism in play at an academic level.

AI is just yet another technology that will be abused because it's in the valley of being massively overhyped socially but poorly understood by its users and its moderators. It sucks because these people may get an easy ride through their education only to find that they know nothing that'll get them a stable employment or transferable skills to make them rounded human beings. On the upside, in a sense, this is no different to every generation before us; people ride the technology of the era to avoid learning the skills that are fundamental to picking up the next technological boundary.

TLDR yeah the short term is gonna be really annoying and shitty but I do believe this is another techno-fad that'll blow over and the people getting it easy right now are just delaying their education temporarily.