I wouldn't really have much to say about this:
https://nitter.net/butterbooter/status/1994133109395345545
But after seeing it 10 times, I realize that there is an aspect of the situation that might not be obvious, and if someone was, for example, going to watch one of these videos that I bookmarked rather than watching,
The British Man Pretending to be Japanese | feat. Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper, Arin Yumi - YouTube
The definition of I just work here - YouTube
‘I’ll kill you,’ off-duty cop yells before fatally shooting man who tried to grab her gun - YouTube
No Rae, I respect you too much - YouTube
The Most Shocking Japanese Speaker Ever - YouTube
PewDiePie Former Editors Conspired Against Him - YouTube
THIS Is Who Students Think Attacked Us on 9/11?! - YouTube
Elon Musk Just Doxed Everybody - YouTube
Yes, AI Will Take Your Job. But What Happens NEXT Is Worse - YouTube
then it might not be a waste of time to read what I have to say about this instead.
About using automated solutions: basically the way I re-learned how to play Age of Empires II was to the change the first player, me, to AI. When doing this, AI plays the game as normal, but you can also give commands to units. It can be a little frustrating at times due to the AI trying to countermand your orders, but it's sort of like an interactive tutorial, teaching general patterns that are broadly correct.
When I started, I remembered little: I would not have been able to name buildings like the blacksmith and university, or which buildings depend on what. Even after some months, I still thought it was a bug when I was unable to build a market, due to not having a mill. So the AI was much more competent than I was at first. And yet, using the AI did not prevent me from learning. (I still was never really able to play normally due to poor system performance, forcing me to constantly pause in order to e.g. make menus disappear that wouldn't otherwise disappear, or stop the screen from scrolling.)
About writing specifically. I don't think I ever read anything written by a classmate, or that any classmates read anything written by me. Basically, I never had a reference for the quality of writing other people could offer.
So if people's writing is bad when they aren't allowed to use 'AI', I don't know if it would have been bad even if 'AI' didn't exist. I know reading skills have been getting worse, and that Covid in particular led to people in the US having a lower quality of education during those years, but I don't know what the general trend was (for stuff like maths performance) before 'AI' and Covid.
Basically, 'AI' is available in every country with Internet. The availability of 'AI' has not stopped young people in Korea and China from being in classes for most of their waking hours. The trend towards lower classroom performance in the US is honestly not too different from something like young people being potty-trained at a later age, which has nothing to do with their native intelligence or 'AI', and everything to do with how their parents treat them.
I honestly think a more likely effect is that the use of 'AI' to write words simply results in more words. This includes words like the ones used when submitting job applications: someone using 'AI' will be (is) able to provide more unique words, tailored to specific job openings, which probably means more job offers. What if someone writing on their own can only apply to 50 jobs, but someone using 'AI' can apply to 50,000 jobs?
My perspective, basically, is of someone who saw resources like Sparknotes that were available 20 years ago as providing negative value. To be honest, I only struggled to read a book once: The Mists of Avalon, which was the required summer reading for my 12th grade class, but I neglected to start reading it until like a week before school started, and reading it (while taking notes) took so long that I only finished the essay hours before school started, so I spent the first day of school sleep-deprived. So just as I asked, "why would someone who has plenty of time for fun activities and hanging out with friends not just use that time to read the book that their English teacher has decided is important?", I would ask about 'AI', "why would someone not take the time to write their own words for an assignment?"
So, maybe someone could use 'AI' to learn how to write better by following its patterns. But if the goal is only to save time, then someone might let an 'AI' write for them without even reading its output themselves, and then they are not learning anything, but then I have to ask: what are the incentives this person has, such that they are indifferent to the possibility that they will not learn anything from school?
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