AI corruption everywhere.

My institution's educational research group invites us to attend a presentation by a commercial software company who wish to sell us their AI product. The invitation actively promotes the product, with no further qualitfications or provisos.

The product: a tool that lets students query our learning materials, so that they don't have to read them. Also, a sister product that does the same for academic readers of research papers.

Tools that are explicitly meant to help students and scholars to avoid ... having to read academic works!

And these commercial products are actively promoted by a research and pedagogy branch of my university.

These developments are not new, of course, they have been gathering pace all through the past three years. But each such announcement still manages to shock me.

Intellectual and moral corruption and corrosion, everywhere I look.

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