LLMs are a perfect fit for education
(unfortunately).

In his Report on Knowledge (1979) Lyotard wrote that in postmodernism the test for knowledge was no longer is it true but is it useful. Marketisation has now ensured that this is the basic premise for higher education.

LLMs are similarly driven not by truthfulness but utility.

LLM and HE is a marriage made in hell.

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I also suspect that many of those who hated postmodern theory with a vengeance are now embracing LLMs.

Irony or hypocrisy?

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