If an early-generation language model can produce essays that professors cannot distinguish from those written by humans, perhaps the whole essay thing isn't qu

If an early-generation language model can produce essays that professors cannot distinguish from those written by humans, perhaps the whole essay thing isn't quite what academic snobs tend to think it is. The solution, like everywhere else AI is making inroads, isn't to try to restrict its use so the academic dead horse can be beaten forward for a few more years, it's to think long and hard about what the future of the field can meaningfully look like. "Congratulations, you just got your B.A. in English literature! Also, your laptop can now do everything you learned in college better, faster, and cheaper than you." This is a dead end. There's no sugarcoating it, and there won't be "business as usual" for much longer.