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Multiple educators and institutes are grappling with a plague of cheating. This is just a recent article : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48708991

LLMs are found to erode skill

> https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

LLMs have largely been a net negative on human education systems.



If some subset of people use calculators to cheat or their skills atrophy how does that have anything to do with whether or not they serve a useful purpose?

LLMs will revolutionize education for those that care to learn. They will have at least as large an impact on access to knowledge as wikipedia had ~25 years ago.


I went down this rabbit hole, and if you see the MIT study, its not calculators anymore.

Also - which kid (or adult) wants to study instead of just play?

Furthermore, Wikipedia (and calculators) were largely free, nor did they come with a side of white collar work automation.




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