When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

LLM use in research and writing doesn't just mean students aren't doing the work, it means they literally abandon the very skills development and knowledge acquisition necessary for any intellectual job, let alone to know whether or when LLMs are giving them bullshit or useful info. 2/n

When educators freak out about AI, it's not because we're lamplighters fighting the invention of the lightbulb, or because we're lazy and don't want to innovate our teaching methods - it's because there's a genuine learning crisis at hand, the stupifying of society. 3/3

I in the dark.