Ummm, yeah, ok…
WTactualF?
WKCR is the number one listened-to radio station in NYC. It is not ‘merely’ a student music station. Journalism is a core part of their coverage. And they covered the original protest in Spring 2024 at an impressively high professional level.
Here’s the latest BS out of academic libraries. Somehow this made it out of peer review.
Identity-based DEI training engages with amorphous and ideologically-laden topics such as the causes of racial inequalities and why “dismantling” white supremacy culture is required to eliminate them. Abstract ideas such as these are examples of what Lifton calls “thought-terminating clichés;” that is, a proposition that is both unfalsifiable and “relies on disabling the recipients’ critical faculties to cause itself to be replicated.” That DEI training materials are often accompanied by glossaries reflects a recognition that the words and concepts of the DEI lexicon, such as equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and white supremacy, carry specific meanings that are substantially different from their commonly understood meanings in the broader society. […] Getting someone to use words differently from what they believe they mean, or to repeat phrases that are not their own and that they do not really understand, is manipulative behavior and is a violation of that person’s freedom of thought.
… and so forth.
Don’t get me wrong, Kristin Antelman is – or at least was – a respected voice in academic library leadership. But this is beyond the pale.
The calls are coming from inside the house.
Damn, that load of clumsy mental gymnastics really is scary.
Reminds me of my school years in Venezuela. Our Math, Chem and Physics class we had to do all calculations by hand to show all of the work. When i came to the US i was shocked when it was ok to have not only calculators, but one could also have cheat sheets with formulas and more.
I don’t know if the current AI issues also exist in other countries (I think its likely). But I would hazard a guess that in the US kids being hugely dependent on AI is a symptom of the education system failing to actually educate the kids, and their over reliance on AI is due to their desperation to work with what they’ve been given.
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs.
(Gift article)
Now students are complaining on sites like Rate My Professors about their instructors’ overreliance on A.I. and scrutinizing course materials for words ChatGPT tends to overuse, like “crucial” and “delve.” In addition to calling out hypocrisy, they make a financial argument: They are paying, often quite a lot, to be taught by humans, not an algorithm that they, too, could consult for free.
For their part, professors said they used A.I. chatbots as a tool to provide a better education. Instructors interviewed by The New York Times said chatbots saved time, helped them with overwhelming workloads and served as automated teaching assistants.
Their numbers are growing. In a national survey of more than 1,800 higher-education instructors last year, 18 percent described themselves as frequent users of generative A.I. tools; in a repeat survey this year, that percentage nearly doubled, according to Tyton Partners, the consulting group that conducted the research. The A.I. industry wants to help, and to profit: The start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic recently created enterprise versions of their chatbots designed for universities.
Lazy ass mother fuckers.
Up is down.
Big is small.
Death is life.
ETA
Help me out here. If I read that correctly, it was pulled because it was actual crappy a/o fraudulent research, not because DEI or some political bullshit? That is actually kinda refreshing, if sad.