AI is being used for homework, and it's passing
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What the fucking point of essays anyways?
The point is to establish competence. Can you produce something, to spec, on time.
If you want to know the value of such an exercise, just look at all the people who can’t do it.
I have doctoral writing skills and a lexicon that staggers the average folk. I write literature as a passion and even I agree that essays and most school work are useless nonsense. Everything up to collage should be how to pay taxes, cook, change a tire, fix things around the house and so on. Beyond that is for academia.
Knowing how to write and therefore reason at a college level takes at least the elementary school years to develop.
The failure of K-12 schools to improve overall literacy has resulted in universities dumbing down entry requirements and course writing requirements.
This, in turn, has contributed to the collapse of higher ed, which is being accelerated by the critical studies indoctrination scandal.
It seems to work like this: The less literate the incoming classes, the more gullible they are to neo-Marxist indoctrination, not having read anything besides pop fiction or comic books, if that.
It is impossible to advance an illiterate person to fluency in one course like freshman composition; in fact, people buy their degrees while not being able to write as well as a high-schooler.
The only thing I recall learning from it was how to get good at procrastinating and fabricating a bunch of linguistic bullshit.
If an AI can do what they are supposed to do those people are useless and are easily replaced.
To write well. Digest information. Recreate it through understanding and demonstrate that.
Now it's just a check the box that most students get passed through anyway. That's why nobody can spell anything or understand how to read anything either.
That's down to mass production education. The so-called teachers are nothing but workers on an assembly line passing these retards from one point to another until they can be handed the diploma that shows they've done nothing but spew the party line.
To demonstrate the degree of someone's literacy, fluency, and ability to reason.