Who’s Writing Students’ Papers? (Guess!)

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“I owe it all to Artificial Intelligence!”

First I must make a confession. Upon graduation from college, finding myself almost completely Nowhere in the job market, I signed up with a business called Creative Research. We wrote students’ papers for them. It was one of the few skills I’d picked up in school and college. All those years–yeah, I knew how to write a term paper. So I did it for money, till they passed a law against it. It wasn’t ethical, but it did sort of smack of the inevitable.

But now–!

“Turnitin” has scanned some 200 million papers written–well, supposedly written–by high school and college students: some were peer-reviewed , published scholastic writing (https://districtadministration.com/ai-writing-students-use-artificial-intelligence-papers/).

Well look at that! Fan my brow! Looks like the kids are gettin’ smarter by the day. Or else the unionized teachers have gotten real good at teachin’ ’em. Maybe both.

Call it what it is. They’re cheating.

Mine the defenseless public for money and keep Democrats in charge of everything. That’s really all there is to it. How “intelligent” is Artificial Intelligence?

Probably more intelligent than the students who depend on it to write their papers.

Here’s My Podcast: ‘Does Technology Make Us Smarter?’

(Hint: No. Absolutely not.)

Here’s the interview I did with Andrea Schwartz for her “Out of the Question” series. We’re talking about The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/audio/does-technology-make-us-smarter-ep-155-guest-lee-duigon

Let’s face it: public education has always been a loser. “One size fits all” just doesn’t work for humans or any other living things. But now, with the social media and smartphones and stupidphones added to the mix, it’s worse than ever. By several orders of magnitude.

So we’re talking it over, and here it is for your edification and enjoyment.

I have ideal voice for print, don’t I?

‘Giant 5-Headed Snake’ vs. Oncoming Train

(Thanks to Susan for the, um, news tip)

Sorry I had to dump all that unedifying “education” nooze on you. But the nooze is the nooze, and I can’t help it.

For something completely different, here’s a giant 5-headed cobra trying to stop an oncoming train. Honk if you believe any of this is real. It would be upsetting to think this fooled anybody.

Which raises a question: have people grown more credulous? Immersed in high tech razzle-dazzle that they don’t begin to understand, have people really and truly gotten dumber by the day? The hoaxes get clumsier and clumsier… but that doesn’t seem to stop them.