Did you see The Atlantic article titled ‘Colleges are preparing to self-lobotomise’? It was all about the erosion of critical thinking at universities where students generated essays with AI, only for professors to mark with AI. They skipped the writing altogether. And that’s a problem, because, well… what is writing? If you wanted a fancy …
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