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36. Some of the richest companies on Earth are spending all they can to hype AI and pressure people

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Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:48 AM

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A CNN article says some students at Yale now can't even talk in class without using ChatGPT to coach them [View all] highplainsdem 13 hrs ago OP

Jfc. SheltieLover 13 hrs ago #1

No doubt. This stuff is scary. Talk about dumbing people down! n/t PatrickforB 12 hrs ago #7

For sure! And many people go for it! SheltieLover 12 hrs ago #9

Some of the richest companies on Earth are spending all they can to hype AI and pressure people highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #36

Yale is like an Olympic training camp for the mind tinrobot 13 hrs ago #2

We're also losing potential artists who will not follow their dreams and develop their talents because highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #38

LOL!!!! valleyrogue 2 hrs ago #44

"I want to comment, and I have this concept, but I don't know how to formulate the sentence myself." PeaceWave 13 hrs ago #3

And those Yale students at least got through high school, or most of the way through it, before AI use highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #5

I think the dumbing-down occurs fairly quickly EYESORE 9001 3 hrs ago #40

AI is dumbing down adults quickly, too. There've been studies of doctors and software engineers and highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #41

Yup. Straw Man 9 hrs ago #20

So it is working to perfection then misanthrope 9 hrs ago #22

That has to be incredibly frustrating for you. Do the students listen if you tell them they're just highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #42

The old saying... oldsoldierfadingfast 13 hrs ago #4

Wat ar u talkin about! FHRRK1 11 hrs ago #10

Those supposedly educated people will be addicted consumers of AI, victims of learned helplessness, highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #43

Shame on educators allowing this. chowder66 12 hrs ago #6

Most of the teachers I've talked to tried to stop it. School admins were pressured by AI companies, or highplainsdem 12 hrs ago #8

they'd never get away with this NJCher 11 hrs ago #11

Only because you are there watching them read the essays and create the response. Intractable 11 hrs ago #14

No way NJCher 7 hrs ago #23

I'm sorry that you don't understand what people can do with AI today, let alone tomorrow. Intractable 5 hrs ago #28

professors are given classes on this NJCher 1 hr ago #46

The only way you can prevent the students from using AI is when you are standing over them. Intractable 1 hr ago #48

I'm an AI hater and I don't see how there's no way they couldn't use AI unless they're doing all this in front of you. WhiskeyGrinder 5 hrs ago #24

will do NJCher 1 hr ago #47

I'm reminded of a Star Trek episode... BurnDoubt 11 hrs ago #12

THIS is getting scary. calimary 11 hrs ago #13

I agree. I didn't expect AI use in school to result this quickly in students thinking they need AI to tell highplainsdem 2 hrs ago #45

That's pitiful BeneteauBum 11 hrs ago #15

Ugh Lemon Lyman 10 hrs ago #16

Reknown or renown instead of renowned. LisaM 10 hrs ago #18

I showed this to my friend, and him and I both agree with you. TheRickles 5 hrs ago #27

The end of struggle and critical thinking. AllyCat 10 hrs ago #17

Yale grads that'll wonder why nobody will hire them. n/t flvegan 9 hrs ago #19

Prof. Kingsfield from the "Paper Chase" would destroy these students should they later decide to attend Harvard Law andym 9 hrs ago #21

My senior thesis in 1979: no_hypocrisy 5 hrs ago #25

I don't think anybody under the age of 60 could do that now. yardwork 3 hrs ago #37

The dumbing down of America continues. Vinca 5 hrs ago #26

Teenage Wasteland OC375 5 hrs ago #29

How long until the post-AI Renaissance then? BadgerKid 4 hrs ago #30

Clickbait article Johnny2X2X 4 hrs ago #31

Not clickbait at all. It was written by a young person, a Yale student. And there's been more and more highplainsdem 4 hrs ago #33

Exactly jcboon 4 hrs ago #34

Microsoft's own study.showed that AI dumbs users down: highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #39

Sounds like bullshit to me. ruet 4 hrs ago #32

It's nothing at all like the kids-using-litterboxes RW propaganda stories. It fits in with news stories and highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #35

My wife has changed her tactics. Happy Hoosier 1 hr ago #49