This Substack 😬 post about generative AI revealing how intellectually lazy and uncaring most people are is spot on, I think. If AI manages to get financially cheap, I foresee (unfortunately!!) that we will see it a lot because most people can’t read and can’t write it’s cheaper and politically more opportune to accept this and instead of struggling for education, to sink back into an imagined dark age where AI keeps up the appearances.

LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further)
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/llms-are-revealing-how-low-the-bar

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@alex haven't read yet, but I would want to avoid equating literacy with education. It is the "educated" developing LLMs and other "educated" using them. Text-to-speech and speech synthesis make tech accessible to a lot more people. Bernie Sanders had a conversation with Claude that way!

@tetrislife I have seen both and for those with lower levels of reading and writing capabilities, using gen AI seems to help or at least increase their confidence (speaking of my extended family, for example).

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