The Homework Machine by Shel Silverstein
I didn’t ask him to specify, since if I had he’d surely have said he meant me and the octopus both, for the étude. “So guys says ‘Pay up,’ bartender says ‘Wait a minute,’ pulls out a guitar. Guy gives the octopus the guitar, octopus tightens up the E-string, closes its eyes, plays a sweet little fandango on the guitar.” Pressure building up, I
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ihaveanessaydueatmidnightthatireallydontwanttodo.com
This points to a product called JotBot, but the URL (and the social media framing) point to the probably common ethos around AI writing: most people hate shaping prose essays, and so AI delivers the ultimate shortcut.
Many are wailing that this technology spells “the end of high school English,” meaning those classes where you read some books and then write some pro forma essays that show you sort of read the books, or at least the Spark Notes, or at least took the time to go to Chegg or Course Hero and grab someone else’s essay, where you changed a few words to... See more