Every year I spend in education, I become more convinced we’re confusing efficiency with learning. AI can be a powerful tool, but what happens when it starts replacing the very struggle that teaches us to think? Somewhere along the way, we’ve stopped asking how to protect learning and started asking how to automate it.
The people generating AI slop at scale are making a choice to strip-mine a commons—to extract private profit while pushing the cost of filtering and verification onto everyone else. Is the rise of generated content a technical evolution, or a fundamental breach of information ethics?
