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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

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Relevant article https://web.archive.org/web/20250314201213/https://www.ft.com/content/a8016c64-63b7-458b-a371-e0e1c54a13fc

Admittedly the downward trend began sometime in the 2012s so it predates LLMs.

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