Comment on Why do people hate AI so much?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
In my experience, people who use LLMs as educational tools… don’t actually learn very well. They think they are, but they don’t retain the knowledge nor do they seem able to infer from or apply the knowledge very well. There are even some early studies that are showing that using LLMs decreases cognitive ability, and considering how many kids and young people are using it to get their way though school and even higher education… I think we’re using AI to raise a generation of stunted minds. That’s going to be a bigger issue as time goes on and with the state of the world and who owns the LLMs… it looks like a grime, sad future thanks to this tech.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 19 hours ago
I would definitely be curious to see the research on that. I do think there are dangers with regard to relying on AI too heavily, but as a complement to existing technologies, I don’t think it can hurt any more than a calculator hurts your ability to do math.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Here ya go.
It’s important to remember that it doesn’t really matter how you, personally, use their product or think it should be used, it matters how it is used by large swaths of society. Don’t get fooled into promoting some billionaire’s tool to shift wealth further upward and further denigrate the working class in your quest to get out of spending 15 minutes searching for the right D&D character picture.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Ok, that’s one study. Here is a review of dozens of studies that shows a positive impact on education.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X25001699
FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 11 hours ago
The study you linked doesn’t just show a positive impact on education. That’s only half the study. The other half is about the negative impacts. That study is giving a full picture of ai use in the classroom, about where it helps and where it hurts. They created 6 categories for how ai is getting used in the classroom and explained the positive and negatives found in those studies for each category. Some categories see more benefits or more harm than others
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
I think it’s genuinely too early to say definitively one way or another, but anecdotally, the people I see educated with LLMs are a lot less capable than people who aren’t.
Only time will tell how badly we’ve allowed ourselves to get fucked over to benefit a few ultra rich companies.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Here’s another fun piece you can read.
The incoming AI apocalypse isn’t about Skynet drones or malicious AGI, it’s about creating generations of vastly less educated and cognitively deficient lower classes and restricting traditional education to the wealthier echelons of society, gatekeeping the poor out by cost alone.
rabiezaater@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Fully agree that children should not be exposed to ai content, and age restrictions would be warranted (which ironically I think a lot of people on the fediverse would not be happy about).
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
That’s the thing.
Your specific opinions on how LLMs should be used or not use don’t affect how they are being used.
A system is what it does, plain and simple, and LLMs look like they’re doing serious damage to our societies to really just benefit the wealthy.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I fully believe that the US government plans on replacing teachers with AI. It is all part of a grand plan to eliminate the Department of Education and defund schools nationwide. Once this crisis comes into full view we will be presented with this plan and we will no longer have a choice unless you have enough money to send your kid to private school.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Because using AI atrophies the part of your brain that handles critical thinking…
The more you use it, the less you notice how you can’t do things without it.
If AI worked, that would be normal. The problem is it’s just good at conning people into believing it.
That’s why you can’t realize if it ever takes off and people start using it, they’re going to make it shittier and more expensive.
But again, the people already relying on AI have lost the critical thinking to see that coming. It’s like a bus driver closing their eyes because a bridge is closed. The bridge is still closed, they didn’t solve any problems. They just don’t see it coming now.
What you’re doing is asking all the passengers why they’re still screaming if all they need to do is close their eyes…