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why on earth do academics care so much about students cheating with #ChatGPT and don't seem to mind the emergence of a new kind of platform economy that further abstracts labor in a series of services that just barely work enough to fool VCs, laundering liability for products through "of course the chatbot is imperfect," and a new set of chokepoints for tech companies to serve as obligate passage points for data harvesting? Some of them even seem excited for it magically solving the problems left by our dereliction of responsibility for maintaining our own infrastructure like informational synthesis, search, and discovery.

oh wait no that tracks.