how to get smart again: building a media syllabus

The humanities isn’t dead. I can promise you at least that much. Yet, it is difficult to ignore the copious amounts of articles being published every day, reporting the decline in humanities majors, the increase of cheating in college, or how humanities may not survive the era of artificial intelligence. In the age of generative artificial intelligence hijacking and taking over actual art, humanities sometimes feels like a vestigial afterthought in today’s society. The convenience epidemic of immediately going to ChatGPT or whatever AI site as the first line of defense has diminished our ability to create. Why would we, if we can ask a machine to generate new content for us at the click of our fingers Never mind that it’s causing irreversible damage to our brains and the climate. It saved you two seconds of having to use your brain. It saved you ten seconds from having to think of a reply to an email. It saved you an hour of brainstorming for an essay due for class. My post on how to g

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• Neel K