The sophomore slump is real. On any given school night I am awake until 4:00 a.m., in a cold sweat, staring at my to-do list with a case of task paralysis so advanced that I would sooner drop out than read another page of James Joyce. So I scroll Instagram to take the edge off, only to be bombarded with an ad for yet another artificial intelligence homework app .

And each time I am tempted to reach into that yawning white void for a summary of a reading, or some feedback on a paper. Because everyone’s doing it and it’s just this one time and I’m so tired. But each time I stop myself, because we all know that AI is bad. Right?

I mean, it writes suicide notes for 16-year-olds and drains the planet’s water and makes it easier to cheat. These ads offer us relief from the very thing

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