There are so many reasons to despise the state of “generative AI,” and 404 Media highlights one more absolutely depressing and distressing reason: It’s intellectually kneecapping a generation of schoolkids and hobbling the teachers who try to impart learning unto them:

They try to show me “information” ChatGPT gave them. I ask them, “How do you know this is true?” They move their phone closer to me for emphasis, exclaiming, “Look, it says it right here!” They cannot understand what I am asking them. It breaks my heart for them and honestly it makes it hard to continue teaching.

Read the whole thing at Teachers Are Not OK, if you’re in the headspace to deal with feeling even more grim than usual on a Monday morning in this timeline we inhabit.