Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)
This is a really interesting point about education and learning, in general:
AI technology is based on the idea that the important part of creating things is the outcome, not the process. Can’t draw? That shouldn’t stop you from making a picture. Worried about your writing? Why should that stop you from handing in a coherent essay? The ads for AI all promise that you’ll be able to produce things without all the tedious work of actually producing it – isn’t that great? Well no, it’s not – it’s terrible. It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of why creating things has value. It’s terrible in general, but I am especially offended by this idea in the context of education, and in this post I want to lay this idea out in a little detail.
(tags: education learning ai process-vs-outcome working how-we-work)