but at this point you are usually asked to sign a statement that your submission is not AI-assisted. Or a statement about the extent and nature of AI use.

it’s in a flux i suppose, I don’t know—but it would defeat the purpose of publication I guess. machine-assisted work is supposedly replicable with no effort so why waste resources on publication?

translations and editions are publications

and sure, not next week: but the excitement is about how a lot of highly skilled intellectual work will be conveniently replaced by one prompter. Which sounds nice, unless you contemplate the cultural consequences.

for as long as such are trained and exist, because there are jobs for them.
I don’t think you have actually thought about how expertise gets produced and what it actually is.

most experts mostly do mundane work. like the stuff mentioned here. on the scale we are talking about this is about jobs: not about uniquely brilliant individuals finding something fun to think about. And the truly brilliant experts emerge from a cohort of competent professionals—

and at last—the fulfillment!

but maybe never waits in queue

a strong guy who always appears here on cue

a heavily drawn curlicue

And, I'll just step out of my historical lane for a second and say that the 19C railroad industry--a bubble these guys love to invoke as precedent--wasn't trying to pump railroad into everything. There was no Railroad School. No Railroad Healthcare System. No Railroad Personal Assistant.

Until there were no more experts because no one would hire them because, you know, Gemini…
I am sure this is a happy outcome.
Tell me what I am misunderstanding here.

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

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I am very sorry to hear. You not being a permanent fixture is a reminder of just how impossibly exploitative this system built on broken hopes really is.
Or rather, this system built on breaking hopes.