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We're Training Students to Write Worse and to Use AI to Prove They're Not Robots

Posted by hn_acker |3 hours ago |3 comments

Ajakks 3 hours ago

This is excellent. This is exactly what we get for trying to prevent progress.

You can't stay still, it doesn't matter that you think this is worse than it was - it just is.

We need to teach kids from like kindergarten how to use AI in their lives - not for specific tasks, but as a tool that is omnipresent in their lives.

I'm a millennial, I had my math teacher give me the "you won't have a calculator in your pocket" speech - but I do tho, 100% of the time, he couldn't have been more mistaken if he tried.

Why are so many millenials acting like my math teacher??

leed25d 3 hours ago

Prompt: I would like to try a little test. I will give you a short piece of text, and you render it as though it were written by a tenth-grader. Here's the text:

We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

Response:

That's a fun exercise! Here's the headline rewritten in a tenth-grade voice:

Schools Are Making Kids Write Bad on Purpose to Show They're Human, But It's Actually Making Them Use AI More

hn_acker 3 hours ago

The original title is:

> We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI