[CJefferson]

This is my biggest concern. Speaking as someone who recently had to read 60 AI generated reports (the whole issue of how much students are using AI is one discussion), it was genuinely soul-destroying reading the same phrases, seem sentence structures, same arguments over and over. Depressed me the whole of the next day.

[olsondv]

Every student is forced to read the same materials and books. Tests are designed to test how close they remember the same correct answers. It’s always been rare that a novel interpretation or idea has come out of a classroom. The modern, structured education has never been designed to generate creative people.

[organsnyder]

I hear this sentiment repeated a lot, but I've never seen it to be true in practice. My kids' teachers absolutely do nurture creativity, and I don't think our school district is particularly unique.

[jjkaczor]

True - but it did have the benefit of giving the majority of people who passed through it the same benefit of a baseline understanding of "things" - those with aptitude and talent (and time and privilege) could take that further and build upon those fundamentals.

Now however, if people are not even internalizing those fundamentals in order to even re-write things in their own words, using their own "mental model" (perhaps correct, sometimes not) - I fear they won't even develop "mental models" and abstractions...

[AbsurdCensor]

Wouldn't that be the same even if AI wasn't involved? By and large, it's the same books, the same training for students, the same hammered in structure, so the output from students would be reasonably similar. No one is coming up with new allegories out of The Scarlet Letter at this point.

[consp]

I've had a few hundred reports over the years as a teaching assistant (digital but must be your own) at the algorithmics course of my university. If I saw that LLM generated uniformity as described they'd all have gotten a plagiarism mark. There were many differences in how people describe things and you could easily see if someone understood the subject or not. That is gone with LLMs as I see it now.

[CJefferson]

No, not at all. Students all have different voices. Yes there are similarities but if I read two pieces of work that sound in the same voice I assume there has been cheating — except this year everything is in the same voice.

[liendolucas]

Man if I ever had to read 60 AI reports, I'd quit on the spot.

[kolinko]

Why? Just get AI to grafe them and give you the outliers to judge