Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster
Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends.
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This does not sound good for those people. Writing is a way of thinking. AI writing assistants are competitive cognitive artifacts. People who use AI to write most of their written communication will get worse at thinking through writing.
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Most people don't need to think, they need to write. And AI helps them in that.
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Most people don't need to think
No they just don't do it. The world would be in a much better position if people engaged their brains occasionally.
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If they can’t think or write on their own then what is their value? Why not just go straight to the LLM and cut out the middle man?
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Those people who don’t want to think need to be doing manual labor that doesn’t require thought.
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They prefer lawmaking.
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Hey this that you're doing is called gate keeping.
We got multiple versions of these every time a new tech comes along.
People defending typewriters. Or learning Latin. Or something better than a quill and jar of ink. Or paper being affordable.
Just. Stop.
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You seriously need to look up gatekeeping because that's not what it means at all.
Also you are making stuff up. No one has ever been against learning Latin, it is always being seen as something that a sophisticated gentleman knows, literally the opposite of whatever random nonsense you're claiming right now.
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There is published research that using AI makes people worse at critical thinking. It’s not gatekeeping, it’s a legitimate concern.
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I mean, books did make us worse at memorizing. I think its give and take. There are some things that are good to cognitively offload to an AI.
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I do agree that there are tasks that are good to offload to AI. I don’t believe that reading and writing should be. AI can be a great tool. Ironically, since you mentioned memorization, I can’t possibly retain 100% the information I’ve learned in career and so using LLMs to point to the correct documentation or to create some boilerplate has greatly improved my productivity.
I’ve used AI as a conversational tool to assist in finding legitimate information to answer search queries (not just accept its output at face value) and generating boilerplate code (and not just using it as another stack overflow and copying and paste the code it gives you without understanding). The challenge is that if we try to replace 100% of the task of communication or research or coding, you eventually lose those skills. And I worry for Jrs who are just building those skills but have totally relied on AI to do the work that’s supposed to teach them those skills.
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This is the way
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Oh, nice username. Almost got me there
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