No More Active Producers of Meaning

Ouch. This quote highlighted by Ben Williamson in a LinkedIn post is worth checking out:

… by accepting generative models’ normative rationality, the University reframes learning and research as essentially consisting in the evaluation of models’ outputs.

Instead of teaching students to become the active producers of meaning, analysis, and arguments, students learn to become the evaluators, modulators, and improvers of synthetic output.…

Additionally, by serving as the evaluative supplement to models’ output, researchers forfeit the idiosyncratic and creative dimension of knowledge production, the ability to invent new approaches and new forms of knowledge.” (Source)


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