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They don’t want literate people. The majority of American adults read below a sixth grade level, and about a quarter are functionally illiterate - source
(Though my personal favorite statistic from that page is that 2/3 of illiterate Americans were born in the US, who often the same people who complain endlessly about immigrants speaking multiple languages)
Is that stat just English literacy?
If someone can read Spanish but not English, are they deemed illiterate?
How do I test my own reading level?
AI literacy as in using AI to answer all your questions, aka brainrot.
And by “literacy” they mean “promoting the use of”.
So the mega corps that need AI to be integrated into every facet of our society are now going to force feed AI down your children’s throats. Isn’t this country the best?
With all this discourse about AI one thing just keeps being the best indicator for something being wrong: If it were so great and pefect, it wouldnt need to be forced into everything. People would just integrate it themselves.
This is akin to promoting the use of a product as mandatory in the school system. Oh yes, line cow milk.
“literacy” -> marketing
How about including an AI disinformation in this literacy class? Or using AI as a search engine to do fact checking. But I think they really mean “use AI for everything in schools and feed the data back to us” classes.
they already have data how AI hurts students ability to read and write proficiently.
You mean not using AI for fact checking?!?
Like, teaching them how to fact check everything AI says, because it’s rubbish?
I mean as a search engine it is more efficient than google as it stands. And it can give references. Like everything though it can be forced to be biased and enshittified so hard to predict if it will stay that way.
It’s not forced to be bias they have that inherently built in.
And they will make up refrences all the time, or even “understand” wrong.
LLMs have their use cases along side search engines but they aren’t replacement for them
Yet gun education is still not a thing
Regular education is barely a thing.
I’m usually opposed to teaching abstinence, but I’d much rather teach abstinence to gun use than teach kids how to load and store a firearm safely.
They want to make future generations unable to think for themselves, and to be dependent on their tech their whole lives
The education needs to happen, but not for the reasons they are doing it - kids need to know how ai works so they know why it doesn’t in many cases. Disspelling the magic answer machine idea from everyone’s minds starts with learning how it works and how it doesn’t.
We don’t need a new course for this. It just needs to be appended to existing information literacy courses
Thats the one thing that is a necessary out of all of this. Its already out there, so learning the fundamentals and its limitations is the best case. It should be highly applicable to the concepts of LLMs which are broader and can be used for good purposes.
Of course, the techy kids and even teenagers may dabble in AI in their free time, with a bit more thought put in. Even if gen alpha isnt the most fond with AI.
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the best practices (actually learning the techinal not just “write these types of prompts.”)
With Google and Microslop pushing for this, I imagine the important parts beyond “this is how you prompt” will somehow get left out.
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gross
Cool create the problem, make the public pay for it
The movies didn’t lie, it was a real shit.
We really need to address the schooling issue.
