"I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit," writes Troy Jollimore, "That faith has been obliterated." He is quick to blame AI, but I think he should look into a mirror. Let me explain. I've been reading Mark Carney's book Value(s) and there's a section in chapter 6 where he notes, "commodification - putting a good up for sale - can corrode the value of the activity being priced." Now Jollimore can't understand why students are so eager to turn to AI to write their essays. It's because they're writing them as a form of exchange: submit an essay, get a grade (and eventually, a degree). We (educators) made it this way. AI did nothing more than reveal what we had done. Via Daily Nous.
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