I’ve had a shower thought about how we write in school, and especially about why AI can pass these exams with flying colors.
As someone who has been taught in school how to write essays, I think I can say I’ve found a pattern. School teaches to write within a very strict pattern, which creates tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of essays written in exactly the same fashion, and those numbers are just from Israel, which, I believe doesn’t have a special system of conformity to the lowest common denominator.
Those conforming essays are then fed to the AI through the internet (It’s common knowledge the AI reads everything, right? If this is news to you, look up the “artist strike against AI”), and that makes it so essays written by the AI are made to that template the schools teach.
The AI is a lowest common denominator machine, that’s all, the only reason to fear it is if you are the lowest common denominator in your field, which I (hopefully) am not. That’s the reason the AI can succeed in school creative tasks, they actually aren’t creative at all.
School writing is meant to teach you to conform first, with actual writing secondary in priority, and sadly, that fits the system I know painfully well.
In conclusion, I’ve found that our school system is not built to cultivate excellence, but to destroy it.
To break out of that, (as I, at least think I have) One must wish and actually work on learning to write well, which is what I'm doing here, and learn to stand out, which not everyone can do, but all should build towards.
This is part 1 in a series of essays I will write describing my problems with the school system I’m in. I do not yet know what the next part will be about, but I know it’s coming.