Comment by wcchandler

I’m a working professional but going back to school for my Masters. The amount of students using GenAI for everything is mouth gaping. At first I thought it’d be popular in the work force, partly through forced usage. But students (those just out of undergrad) are eating it up. Hitting their limits. Scheduling their work around it. And turning in the slop straight from the outputs. Nauseatingly, the instructors aren’t discounting their work. Our grades show averages, and it’s obvious those with AI answers are receiving high marks.

Surprisingly, instructors are also leveraging it. For their grading. For their feedback. For their communications. I even got a note that had the heading “here is a ready to post announcement for canvas, written in your voice”

I’m floored. This is the next generation of workers. It reminds me of those who started using Google correctly, back when I was in undergrad, ~20 years ago. AI is here and it will be dominant, no matter how bad it becomes.