Oh, you'd be surprised.

I used to teach english for non native speakers, and after chatgpt's debut in 2023, almost every single essay, homework, and presentation was entirely done with LLMs. We had to demand handwritten essays, and presentations had to be done in the classroom (we gave the theme, they worked out a presentation, and then presented it the same day without leaving the class).

And even then, some students would ask to go to the bathroom, use their phones, memorize a whole ass paragraph from chatgpt and then come inside class to write it down.

As all the others say, they want the cert and the status that comes with the cert.

It's part of the reason everyone needs three years experience for an entry level job, a good student fresh out of education is worth little but then worth a lot if they learn fast. A bad student fresh out of education won't learn at all and will be an active detriment, if only because they're taking a seat someone better could take.

People who use AI for everything aren't guaranteed to be bad students, but bad students probably will use AI for everything. The trick will be figuring out the difference.

Wools that just want the cert

Increasingly higher ed in america is being treated as a degree mill, where students are "customers" and the degree is a "product."

It's disgusting, but it's a natural consequence of a commodified education system in which colleges and universities are treated as businesses.

I personally think we need to cut out the parasitic administrators and let the department faculty run the schools like co-ops, and possibly hire out the few administrative tasks that are actually necessary.

That would be far cheaper than paying these enormous administrative salaries, so it could lower tuition while increasing faculty pay.

But has anyone considered those poor shareholders?

The mentally bankrupt

Just for the cert or whatever at the end.