Do you like employees with critical thinking skills? Do you like novels, TV shows, games? Do you appreciate instructions and warnings that keep you from getting hurt?

You'll lose all these things if our students don't learn how to write.

And the really fun bit is that I keep getting told by STEM profs that GenAI is inevitable, and that we'll end up "just using it to automate the low-level tasks, while we write out the complicated stuff, like with statistics engines."

As if the dead salmon problem wasn't a sterling example of how that's gone for them.

As if they haven't spent the last forty years shitting all over my entire field, calling it unnecessary. And no, that's not an exaggeration. A number of years back, I nailed a student for blatant plagiarism, and her father--a STEM prof--deadass told my chair, in conference, that Rhetoric and Writing Studies wasn't a real field of study, and so it didn't matter if someone cheated in it.

Honestly? I've been feeling less afraid of the federal takeover by the far right lately, because they're too goddamn dumb to make it work. You can see the structural cracks forming that will undo them.

But this? GenAI and the loss of creative thinking?

That will undo us all, as a society.

Anyway, these folks say it better than I do:

refusinggenai.wordpress.com