"that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want"

I spent a lot of time with academic philosophers and have found precisely fuck all insight.

It doesn’t. The meaningful connection is between other programmers and you. Same reason some people like sports metaphors. The medium is the message.

I was going to put a facetious comment about Marx’s grave and my contribution to philosophy but I’ll leave that for another post.

If they come up with metprocesses to game this, that’s a win.

And now chatGpt can duplicate that and there's no real skill involved in getting it to do that and neither do they "explore and hone their own thoughts" in this process, mostly you can just an assignment to ChatGpt.

That would be the point. Why bother at all?

It benefits the existing social structures, so they don't actually have to change with the times but can remain in a half-assed patched state that barely holds on because nobody wants to deal with the full rewrite.

That quote is totally moronic as usual.

I would even say I don't want to read anything by anyone who thinks Zizek has anything interesting to say. Instant block or else I may become infected by the stupidity.

I'm not convinced engineers are broadly using AI to write anything important, or that AI code reviews are a significant part of any companies bottom line.

This is a CNN article written by someone lacking the sophistication to actually handle the subject.

Maybe this comment too!

I suspect we'll be all that is left in the information decay we face.

  If you're a man, you're the last man.

So in some sense there is a chance that this has already happened.

What really results from that is a fundamental disconnect of what it thinks it can do and what it can physically do, it's like a cognitive dissonance simulator that quickly derails itself. The best models know exactly what they are, and it's what seemingly keeps them self consistent and coherent.

So, developers and users get into an AI war over CAPTCHAs. ...and, well, welcome to the latent dystopia :(.

Could you share some examples? (genuine question)

This use case is just going to get bigger, though: the premise of ad blockers has a manifest destiny on just looking at the page and picking out the ads, which is possible and not particularly difficult to do even in the ridiculous case of a web page returning its content as a single giant PNG file, even if the ad is a watermark, and even if the "ad" is just a bunch of conspicuous mentions of Mountain Dew strewn throughout every time a placeholder noun is required. (I am legally obligated to note here that this comment was sponsored by Mountain Dew.)