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Reminded of this from late last year and wonder if the algorithm throws up skynet referenced in late August because anniversaries still matter? Still? OK, happy 29th. Just keep writing against the machine: … From Dec 2025 https://johnhutnyk.substack.com/p/skynet-v-writing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=20bu6 Repost: Have you seen this chart? www.educatorstechnology.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/AI-Research-Tools.pdf Useful for some perhaps, but I think horrible too. Especially its promotion of the SciSpace app that will read documents for you and will summarise and explain concepts. That is going to be normative, very often wrong, and not open to interpretive conflicts. It destroys independent critical capacity, and – well, reading is the very reason for having texts, why outsource this pleasure to a machine? Then the three items listed under ‘Help with Research Writing’ – at all levels this is not ‘help’ but abandonment of the task of learning to write (we all, even the most…

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