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0 pointsyavor-atanasov14d ago0 comments

This thread made me think of education (as in schools). To paraphrase:

“Don’t post generated/AI-edited assignments. School is for conversation between humans”

AI can be a great tool for learning, but also can pollute or completely hijack the medium for human interaction and learning.

Having HN flooded with AI generated content will be sad as I like reading it, but losing that same fight at schools will be detrimental.

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chid14d ago

I haven't heard of any recent discussion on the impact of AI on schooling. I agree with you entirely but curious to read any recent thinking on this.

eptcyka14d ago

It is horrendous - it seems that oral verification is required to test pupils skills - this does not scale. People not using LLMs to finish assignments are getting penalized by lower grades, people using llms to finish assignmnets learn nothing.

lucumo14d ago

Why would oral verification be needed? Hand-written answers on paper in a proctored classroom should still work fine. That was the way most verification worked when I was in school, and still is the most used verification method used currently around me.

Homework assignments are harder, but those were always a bit difficult for teachers. It's not like cheating was invented by Gen Z...

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