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Jeff Sparrow, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

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If you work at a university today, you talk a lot with the dead. I don’t mean that as a metaphor – or, at least, not entirely.

Generative AI trains on people. Its algorithms learn from humans, requiring our quirks and idiosyncrasies to improve. If the models are exposed predominantly to the output from other AIs, they degenerate and, eventually, collapse.

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