MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussion

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discus

It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams.

Harder to quantify — but impossible to miss if you’ve spent any time in school lately — is the situation unfolding across classrooms, where students from all layers of society have become empty vessels that parrot the outputs of AI without critically engaging with the subject matter at hand.

One student at Yale University, identified as Amanda, told CNN that the monotonous prose of ChatGPT is even seeping into Ivy-league seminars. As the student and her classmates have observed, in-class conversations among peers are becoming increasingly flat and predictable, a symptom of students leaning on AI to think through discussions for them.

During one memorable awkward silence in class, Amanda told CNN she saw “someone typing ferociously on their laptop, asking [AI] the question my professor just asked about the reading.”

“Everyone now kind of sounds the same,” the Yale student said. “I feel like during my freshman year in college, I would sit in seminars where everyone had something different to contribute. Although people would piggyback off each other, they approached from different angles and offered different commentary.”

Amanda isn’t alone. One of her peers, Jessica, said that the start of every class kicks off an AI mad dash. “At the beginning of class, you could see every single person putting every single PDF [into AI],” the Yale senior told CNN.

Numerous studies have explored AI’s impact on human expression. One recent paper, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, argued that LLMs dull the ways their users approach issues, deploy language, and reason through problems. When we use AI chatbots to think, the authors posit, we’re silently exchanging our own human thoughts for LLM output: a homogenized aggregate of our chosen model’s training data.

Morteza Dehghani, a professor of psychology and computer science at the University of Southern California and co-author of the paper told CNN that the implications of this are “quite scary.”

“If people lose [cognitive] diversity or get into intellectual laziness, of course, that is going to affect our society greatly,” Dehghani said.

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Instructs Staff to W

Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the esteemed Wall Street Journal, just heaped praise on the sloplords drowning journalism in AI-generated dreck. 

In an email obtained by Semafor, Tucker congratulated a Fortune editor for being a likeminded individual embracing AI, and was so impressed by the magazine’s AI efforts that she forced her underlings to read about them.

Last month, the WSJ reported on how Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg used AI to crank out 600 stories in just six months at the magazine, which is more than what his colleagues write in an entire year. AI-assisted articles made up nearly 20 percent of Fortune’s web traffic in the second half of 2025.

As Lichtenberg happily admits, he was literally just copy-pasting press releases into a chatbot and asking it to spit out an article. And this, apparently, is the kind of gumshoe work that warrants being lavished with effusive plaudits from the editor of one of the US’s so-called newspapers of record. 

Per the Semafor scoop, Tucker emailed Fortune’s Alyson Shontell saying she “absolutely loved” the piece about “your reporter Lichtenberg,” before lamenting the broad resistance to AI in journalism. Tucker, naturally, viewed herself and Shontell as the pioneers bucking this trend.

“I love your totally clear-eyed, unsentimental approach to AI in newsrooms,” Tucker enthused. “It makes you pretty unique among our cohort.”

“I just did an All Hands meeting with our APAC staff (I’m in Tokyo) and told them they all had to read it,” she added.

Then Tucker dropped a hot take.

“Anyone who doesn’t get what you are doing at fortune [sic], or thinks it is ‘wrong’, should get out of journalism fast!”

AI’s role in the newsroom remains a hot-button issue in the industry, with recent controversies over the New York Times publishing content that was AI-generated or assisted — in both alleged and confirmed cases — spilling over into the public eye.

Despite how divisive the tech remains, newsroom leaders are championing its use whether their underlings like it or not. A senior manager at the Associated Press, for example recently told staffers that “resistance” to AI was “futile.” Meanwhile, major newspapers have launched high profile experiments with the tech, with mixed results. The Washington Post debuted a disastrous AI-generated podcast feature last December that fabricated facts and misattributed quotes; Bloomberg uses AI to provide summaries at the top of its articles; and The New York Times has used AI to help generate headlines for years.

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