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Maybe people are more interested in engaging with human interlocutors than with machine ones, no matter what the argument.
Essays as coursework has never been just about engaging the argument itself. Authorship matters because it matters that the argument…
If anything, this exchange illustrates the problem: judgments are being made on stylistic impressions (“this sounds like AI”) rather than…
The existential threat is not to higher-ed as such but a particular (and now common) higher-ed business model: the one…
I think Paul is absolutely right. For the humanities it is an existential crisis, not just some minor issue that…
Is the joke here that your comment is very obviously written by AI?
Sagar’s claim that LLMs pose an “existential threat” to universities rests on a set of conflations that do not survive…
…"the best-known philosopher in the English-speaking world." I assume what they meant was the "best-known philosopher in The Weekly Standard offices," where apparently no one has heard of Peter Singer, Jurgen Habermas (who is better-known than Scruton even in the English-speaking world), Martha Nussbaum, Anthony Appiah, Charles Taylor and on and on.
(Thanks to Robert McGarvey for the pointer.)
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