[ryandrake]

> Now, what happens when you give those same children access to an LLM that can do essentially ALL their work for them? If I'm right, those children will increasingly lean on those LLMs to do as much of their schoolwork/homework as possible, because the alternative means they have less time to scroll on Tik Tok.

I think schools are going to have to very quickly re-evaluate their reliance on "having done homework" and using essays as evidence that a student has mastered a subject. If an LLM can easily do something, then that thing is no longer measuring anything meaningful.

A school's curriculum should be created assuming LLMs exist and that students will always use them to bypass make-work.

[jplusequalt]

>A school's curriculum should be created assuming LLMs exist and that students will always use them to bypass make-work

Okay, how do they go about this?

Schools are already understaffed as is, how are the teachers suddenly going to have time to revamp the entire educational blueprint? Where is the funding for this revolution in education going to come from when we've just slashed the Education fund?

[ryandrake]

I'm not an educator, so I honestly have no idea. The world has permanently changed though... we can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. Any student, with a few bucks and a few keystrokes, can instantly solve written homework assignments and generate an any-number-of-words essay about any topic. Something needs to change in the education process, but who knows what it will end up looking like?

[usefulcat]

I would think that at least part of the solution would have to involve having students do more work at school instead of as homework.

[jplusequalt]

Okay, and how do you make room for that when there's barely enough time to teach the curriculum as is?

[usefulcat]

Obviously something has to give.

[jplusequalt]

This is what I meant in my other comment. Proponents of AI (not necessarily you) haven't seriously considered how these tools will impact the population.

Until they come up with a semblance of a plan, teachers will experience an undue burden to slog through automated schoolwork assignments, cheating, and handle children who lack the critical faculties to be well functioning members of society.

It's all very depressing.

[ThrowawayR2]

> "If an LLM can easily do something, then that thing is no longer measuring anything meaningful."

An automobile can go quite far and fast but that doesn't mean the flabbiness and poor fitness of its occupants isn't a problem.