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Comment Copilot is not a good product (Score 1) 85

At all.

Because MS limits tokens and caches noise

Apart from that, the number of people with REAL jobs don't need LLMs to interject and assist. Marketing department loves LLMs because they're not particularly bright or creative, mostly employing 3rd parties to do the heavy lifting and now AI to do the rest.....

This is the bit the LLM cult is missing. If I already know how to do everything I need to do, why in the everloving fark would I slow myself down by roping in a sub-optimal Copilot product to take a stab at producing something worse?

Comment Re: There is no greater code smell... (Score 1) 48

with multiple offsite libraries in the browser,

Recalls to mind the hilarious fallout when that hubspot garbage libraries starting shipping malware to every site using them.

If I spot this behaviour in any code change - you're fired. We don't need more Wordpress garbage.

Comment Re:Since DDR4 came out... (Score 0) 61

Public Service Announcement

zurkeyon is a habitual AC hero who loves to REAP what it has SEWN. It is, additionally, a raving loon.

So when you meet an AC acting all brave and mouthy whilst also displaying complete ignorance, chances are you're dealing with this particular chuckledink.

Additionally, zurkeyon loves too post random inflamatory comments because zurkeyon is developmentally challenged.

Responder beware

Comment Re:Completely misses the point (Score 1) 88

then there's approximately zero danger in running the app

You have zero idea of what an "app" is or what it represents, nevermind grasping all the inherent risks.

I get to monitor our internal users' personal device and they are almost all infested with C2, malware, miners and a whole slew of other filthy apps because users are woefully incapable of assessing risk.

Comment Re:It is not either/or... (Score 1) 198

Psychiatry is perfectly capable of distinguishing why someone is struggling with school.

Nonsense. Psychiatry is not a robust science - if we could even classify it as "scientific". Psychiatric treatments end up being "Let's throw a bunch of crud at the wall and see what sicks!"

Youre arguing from an authority that has none.

Submission + - AI is Killing the Internet. Don't Let It Kill the Classroom Too. (realcleareducation.com)

schwit1 writes: AI isn’t merely churning out fluff. In one striking example, bots fueled a disproportionate share of the online discourse following mass shootings, and AI actively spreads misinformation. Online content is increasingly spun up by algorithms for other algorithms to amplify. This deluge of automated content is drowning humanity on the internet.

Lately, it seems that a similar dynamic is charging into our college classrooms with developers of educational technology at its vanguard. Let’s call it the Dead Education Theory, and it works something like this:

A college professor uses one of many dozens of free commercial AI tools to draft a rubric and an assignment prompt for their class. A student pastes that prompt into another AI app that produces an essay that they submit as their completed assignment. Pressed for time, the professor runs the paper through an AI tool that instantly spits out tidy boilerplate feedback. Off in the background, originality checkers and paraphrasing bots duel in an endless game of evasion and detection. On paper, the learning loop is complete. The essay is written. The grade is given. And the class moves on to its next assignment.

It’s entirely likely that this scenario is playing out thousands of times every day. A 2024 global survey from the Digital Education Council found that 86% of college students use AI in their studies, with more than half (54%) deploying it at least weekly and a quarter using it daily. Faculty are increasingly using AI to create teaching materials, boost student engagement, and generate student feedback, although most report just minimal to moderate AI use.

Exit quote: “Banning AI tools isn’t realistic; the genie has escaped that bottle. But instead of allowing AI to drain higher education of its humanity, we must design a future where AI amplifies authentic human thinking. AI will be in the classroom — there’s no question about that. The urgent question is how to keep humanity there as well.”

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