University Turned Professors' Lectures Into AI Slop

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

no slop grenade

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations. If they wanted an AI essay, they would have asked ChatGPT themselves.

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on Twitter / X

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse:"Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used… pic.twitter.com/Rq6zUi5mRp— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) May 6, 2026

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

An inference cooperative for academic AI – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Universities, like other institutions, are currently being confronted with a dilemma: embrace the AI tools currently available from big-name tech companies, and be part of the future, or reject the miraculous machines and stick your head in the sand. This dilemma is a false one, on several counts. It is far from clear what role generative AI will have in the future of academic life, for one thing. And beyond rewording the choices, surely there are other options that this dilemma fails to consider.

Kevin A. Bryan - Eight Rules for Teaching in AI World

How should university teaching change due to AI? A professor's job is to decide what to teach and how to present this material. The job of the course structure is to ensure students learn that content. AI presents three issues: the link between performance and student knowledge has been broken, students need to be able to use AI effectively in their future life, and AI should let us improve how much students learn. We need to modify our courses, our expectations, and our evaluations because of AI, but we can do so in a way that makes education more effective than ever.

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.

This big university system is embracing AI. Students and faculty aren't all on board

The California State University system offers an early look at what happens when an administration commits to a technology that its own community isn't convinced will improve education.

Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)

Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

The Room Where AI Happens

A weekend at the Curve conference—an AI insider gathering in Berkeley revealed how people think about AGI timelines, China, creativity, and writing

Opinion | The Semester That Shook My Faith as a Professor

AI has taken something fundamental from the business of teaching and learning.

Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors.