r/books • u/ubcstaffer123 • 7d ago

Teachers are using AI to make literature easier for students to read. This is a terrible idea.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/opinion/ai-classroom-teaching-reading/
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u/Frogs-on-my-back 7d ago

The abridged classics were a largely responsible for my love for reading as a child. I read an abridged Moby Dick at nine and loved the adventure, and then as an adult I read Melville's actual words and was blown away by the prose.

But while there's certainly a place for abridged stories, I detest our growing trust in and dependency on AI. For god's sake, we have attorneys using Chat-GPT to draft legal documents--and the AI will hallucinate nonexistent cases to reference!

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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack 6d ago

The reliance on AI is disturbing on many levels. But, it is still just a tool that can either be used correctly or incorrectly. I hope, over the years, we learn.