"When it comes to cheaping out on social programs, the UK government might be a world leader. Once a shining example of what social spending can bring to a country, the UK has spent the past few decades gutting government programs, leading to a crumbling rail system, the destruction of child services, and rising education costs. And just as old programs are gutted, new initiatives seem doomed before they even start."
"Nowhere is that more clear than the University of Staffordshire, where for the past two years, students taking part in a recent government-funded apprenticeship program have been taught to code not by a professor, but mainly by a large language model. The AI adjunct was first detailed by The Guardian, which reported that the program's 41 students complained of AI-generated voice lessons and slideshows seemingly authored by an LLM."
The UK has reduced social spending for decades, producing deteriorating public services including rail, child services, and rising education costs. A government-funded coding apprenticeship at Staffordshire University relied primarily on a large language model to teach students over two years. Forty-one students reported AI-generated voice lessons and slideshows with inconsistent American English, dubious file names, and generic surface-level information. One student said he may have 'used up two years' in a program delivered 'in the cheapest way possible.' University policies bar outsourcing academic work to AI but were updated to create a framework allowing academic staff to leverage AI automation.
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