Al SweigartThe people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
Carina C. Zona@AlSweigart so no one researched it, no one wrote it, no one copyedited it, and no one reviewed it. Let me guess: $50?
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@cczona college textbook, $300. As a bonus, the AI can re-churn a new edition every single semester. Goodbye, used books!
neutronstar@rotopenguin @cczona
Reading this I for one think of the environmental impact of printing this same garbage every year. And on top of that we now place the environmental impact of using writing this very garbage using ai…
And then, on top of that, some poor student probably went into debt to buy this very garbage. Then realise that the information in this book isn’t even the same as what you can find online, but probably even worse!
I’m at a loss of words…
tribactam@neutronstar @rotopenguin @cczona
actually, this is the established model in the school system in Italy. Every year, every text book, a new edition. Little if any new content but certainly a new price. And this was before AI. Now it will just be turbocharged.
The only thing is that there are limits set by the ministry of education but the problem remains.
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮@neutronstar @tribactam @rotopenguin @cczona
Schools used to re-use books, so publishers invented this process to make more money.
Schools used to re-use books, so publishers invented this process to make more money.