6d ago

Canadian education report riddled with fake AI references

‘There was an error made’

time: 4 min 10 sec

3 comments

The way these people treat the written word confounds me. Whenever I cite a source, it's because I've read it and know what it says. The fact that "AI" facilitates the process of deciding on your conclusion and then filling in bullshit to prop it up makes "AI" corrosive to a person's moral fiber.
- Afterthought: This kind of brainrot, the petty middle-management style of ends justifying the means, is symbiotic with pundit brainrot, the mentality that Jamelle Bouie characterizes thusly.
  It is sometimes considered gauche, in the world of American political commentary, to give words the weight of their meaning. As this thinking goes, there might be real belief, somewhere, in the provocations of our pundits, but much of it is just performance, and it doesn’t seem fair to condemn someone for the skill of putting on a good show.
  Both reject the idea that words mean things, dammit, a principle that some of us feel at the spinal level.
Burke and Goodnough are working to rectify the report. That sounds like removing the fake stuff but not the conclusions based on it. Those were determined well ahead of time.
In a better world, those conclusions would've been immediately thrown out as lies and Burke and Goodnough would've been immediately fired. We do not live in a better timeline, but a man can dream.