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Re:Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are faili... by antithesizer on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:20PM (#44870569)
yeah man, children being permanently maimed in 19th factories during 20 hour shifts, children using chat bots and subsequently (and therefore causally) getting bad grades... who can even begin to tell the difference??
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Re:Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are faili... by 0x6c6f6c on Monday August 11, 2025 @08:00PM (#44870852)
A hypothetical scenario, but what if the consequences are a severe drop in overall intelligence? There is a conflated sense of "knowing" that comes from these tools.

AI that teaches you? Cool, it is great you learned. But generative AI giving you full essays you can hand in without even learning a topic? It's not difficult to see how this could have negative impacts.

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Re:Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are faili... by unnamed76ri on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:19PM (#44871303)
Right. People who rely on AI to do everything, quite literally don’t know what they don’t know.
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Re:Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are faili... by cwillu on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:28AM (#44872416)
It's muscle: use it or lose it.
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Re:Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are faili... by unnamed76ri on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:23PM (#44871321)
Yeah, bad grades will be the only consequence. Of course that’s what I meant.
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