Adding Wall-E to the current list of dystopia's we're combining.

The last paragraph is especially good:

"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo," Nathan Schmidt, a university lecturer and managing editor at Gamers With Glasses, told 404.

(Likewise, I've always found it unfair how children are blamed or sneered upon for the effects of the inability of their parent generation to regulate intrusive technologies.)

Translation: Traditional education—that was designed to mass educate the lowest common intelligence level in order to reduce the training burden on capitalists who want cheap labor—isn't working very well when students have access to tools that reduce the amount of time they spend doing busiwork.

It's not so dissimilar to company managers who thought that the ability of AI to make employees more efficient at busiwork would somehow reduce their need for people to perform that busiwork.

I may not be describing it very well but it boils down to this: Students and workers are getting more efficient with the bullshit and nobody seems to know what to do about it.

Insert meme:

"You mean most of the time we spend on homework and in the classroom is just bullshit?"

"Always has been."

Now replace that with someone in an office asking, "You mean most of what we do at work is just pointless bullshit?" 😁

AI is really good at producing bullshit. It was trained on a whole lot of it! Why shouldn't we be using it to produce bullshit more efficiently?

You want students to learn stuff? How about we reduce class sizes to like 5 kids per teacher, get rid of homework entirely, and quiz the students constantly in order to find out what they missed/need to learn and focus on filing in those gaps. Then AI and grades wouldn't even matter! You'd always know where each kid was at (in educational terms).