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GalacticNorth said:

This is the crux of it.

LLMs are only exacerbating the existing problems of grading. Namely that learning is not the valuable thing, rather getting the required grade or credential for a career is essential. This is only made worse when the education itself is expensive.

In one sense students cheating is the rational response to this environment. I don’t think any solution at the level of individual classes is possible, we need deep systemic reforms.

If education was free, if living was cheap (whether by UBI, socialist policies, whatever), then courses would not have to be rushed and grades would carry less importance so students wouldn’t be incentivized to engage in “workload management”

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