Young People Can’t Stop Using AI — But that Doesn’t Mean They Like It
Students at multiple universities torched tone-deaf commencement speakers who tried to tout the benefits of AI College used to be different. We had computers, sure, but when it was 5 a.m. and you were
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Students at multiple universities torched tone-deaf commencement speakers who tried to tout the benefits of AI College used to be different. We had computers, sure, but when it was 5 a.m. and you were staring down a 9 a.m.
deadline for a 10-page paper, there was no algorithm there to save you. You got used to the taste of 5 Hour Energy, or you accepted failure. Muscles honed by long hours in AOL chatrooms helped us crank out hundreds of words in the blink of an eye. But they were at least derived from real thoughts, however bleary they may have been. Students today exist in a world in which machine-learning tools like ChatGPT have completely upset higher education. They’re using AI to write papers that professors are using AI to grade . Robot-assisted cheating has killed Princeton University’s centuries-old honor code . Teens now entering college are already hardened by years of outsourcing their education to a machine. The media frenzy surrounding AI in higher education has largely painted the Gen Z and Gen Alpha students adapting this new world as lazy or entitled, content to skate by on artificial brainpower. But it also sells college students a bit short: many of them are still smart enough to realize that AI is going to hurt them more than it helps. The people who don’t realize this, unfortunately, are university administrators planning graduation ceremonies. This graduation season, multiple universities have trotted out utterly tone-deaf big-tech boosters in order to inspire a generation of students about to enter one of the most dismal job markets in recent history.
Key points
- deadline for a 10-page paper, there was no algorithm there to save you.
- You got used to the taste of 5 Hour Energy, or you accepted failure.
- Muscles honed by long hours in AOL chatrooms helped us crank out hundreds of words in the blink of an eye.
- But they were at least derived from real thoughts, however bleary they may have been.
- Students today exist in a world in which machine-learning tools like ChatGPT have completely upset higher education.
This article was independently rewritten by ManyPress editorial AI from reporting originally published by Rolling Stone.
