Medium impact
AI is devastating higher education, but the system was broken
What happened
Generative AI is being trained on obscure, often outdated books, while students increasingly submit AI‑written essays that appear polished but are produced by algorithms using those same texts. Lecturers find grading such work futile, feeling they are evaluating work created by dead authors rather than the students themselves.
Why it matters
This challenges the integrity of higher‑education assessment and highlights how a pre‑existing broken system is being further destabilised by AI‑generated content.
Is this a big deal?
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