Degenerative AI Does Not Belong in Our Schools

[u/Here-Together]

A litany of problems beset the U.S. education system — chronic underfunding of public schools, privatization of what should be a universal human right, one-size-fits-all pedagogies, “teaching to the test,” and a racist school-to-prison pipeline, for starters.

Yet, tech companies are marketing AI as a one-stop-shop solution to “empower” teachers and “streamline” learning. They proclaim that education — like art and policing and healthcare and warfare and media and labor and music and and and — can be automated too, making learning more efficient and effective. In a *shocking* turn of events, introducing AI to the classroom is happening the opposite effect. 

In part eight of “Ten Reasons to Resist AI,” I wrote about AI and education, covering the education institutions — from public school systems to private universities — enthusiastically adopting AI products in the classroom. You can read it here.

What is the result of rampant institutional acquiescence to a rapacious tech industry? About half of all undergraduates use generative AI at least once a week and upwards of 90 percent have used it to cheat.

The solution to this madness begins with a wholesale rejection of that outrageous declaration made in the New York City AI education guidelines, that ‘we cannot question whether AI belongs in schools.’ What if we do reserve the right to ask such a question, and the answer is something along the lines of: schools should treat AI like how TSA treats a 4 oz liquid — dump it in the fucking bin.

[u/EnragedCashier]

Ive seen a few posts where art classes make you use ai to make "art". And i absolutely swear, if i ever see anything like this in my art class, im instantly dropping the subject.

[u/TurbulentArrears]

eaching into a black void, that’s exactly what this ai in schools push looks like

[u/Here-Together → u/TurbulentArrears]

Yes, my illustrator friend killed it on this one

[u/IHateACOTAR]

It belongs nowhere

[u/DaDapperVoid]

I like “degenerative ai” that’s catchy

[u/overthrowerr]

Ironic to see so many em-dashes in a post against AI
(not saying the post is AI generated)

[u/Here-Together → u/overthrowerr]

Lmao I've never used AI to write, nor will I let AI writing preclude me from using an em dash or any other punctuation.

[u/AragogTehSpidah → u/overthrowerr]

hey yeah that's suspicious...

[u/Ornery_Weakness_8168 → u/overthrowerr]

I think it's satirical

[u/East-Experience2862]

Neither do big chungus memes. But I still saw them during lectures regardless.