I guess it’s marginally better than having the brainy girl in the front row do your Philosophy essays. (Which I’m sure never, ever happens…at say…I dunno-North Carolina?)
Malik Elzy no longer with the program
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I hate that Malik did not pan out. Everyone was pumped when we got him as a 4-Star out of Chicagoland in the '23 class. I posted back before the Citrus Bowl game when we found out that PB wasn't going to play that I hoped Malik would step up and take his place. That never happened. Sorry to hear...truly wish him nothing but the best (as long as its not a B1G school.) But...all that said...I think we are stacked at the WR spot. Beatty and Capka-Jones are Seniors, but everyone else is coming back for at least one more year, plus we've got a couple of Freshmen that we were excited to get out of high school (Griffin, Trimble) and some studs coming in 2026...of which our highest ranked recruit is a WR.
Personally, I do not disagree with what you are saying but this generation feels different. It’s about efficiency. Take 30 seconds to type in the prompt, 10 seconds to cut and paste the response and then back to TikTok videos.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I think the truth is a lot simpler: it was never meant to be heartfelt.
This is a business. Usually when an athlete announces they're leaving a team, it feels very rote, particularly if it's not due to graduation/retirement. I can think of a handful (Javy Baez, maybe Mark Buehrle, and Anthony Rizzo?) that were truly heartfelt.
I can't blame the kid for taking a page out of the pros' playbook. He just doesn't have a full PR team that can write those statements for him yet.
Does anyone know how we know its AI in the first place?
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
We don't. It's an assumption based on how simple it is.
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
Elzy is exhibit 64K that one shouldn't be a ratings slave. yes, ratings are fun and a talking point. but there are myriad other factors in play that determine a player's status at the next level
Yep. I did not feel like we were at a huge talent disadvantage with USC, yet they have had top ten classes most every year with one 20th ranked class. Portal players that are experienced have changed everything. It was one of first things I thought of when he announced leaving program.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
The biggest tell is the em dashes. AI writing platforms like to include a set in every paragraph.
I wish him the best. But he dropped passes that were not pressured. Just basic passes. If he wants to get to upper level, put the work in. I don't think he did that here.
But it's not a calculator or a GPS.
A calculator does stuff for you that always yields the same result. No matter your method of calculation, 5 x 5 is 25. Saving time to get to the same result is totally fine.
A GPS is not going to yield a result you couldn't do on a map yourself. It also has access to traffic information that you don't.
In both cases, these tools are yielding results that are constant and defined. The only room for variation comes when there are multiple solutions, but those too are constant.
This is absolutely not the case in writing. Tell 5 people to write a transfer statement, and you'll get 5 different results that are all "correct" answers. That's because there are no constant, defined answers in writing. Moreover, AI doesn't actually create anything on its own. It plagiarizes from the data that's been fed to it.
Generative AI is a plagiarism machine for the lazy. It's not a "tool" like a calculator or a GPS. Just because some people use it as such does not make it so.
I am in the IT space at fairly high level. The vast majority of documentation and executive level guidance come from unverified AI use that doesn't stand up to real scrutiny.
I am a huge AI skeptic, but it does have a lot of use in the real world, especially when I get asked to do something I want to put minimal effort into.
I think AI is a step further than a calculator or GPS. It's replacing critical thinking skills and teaching kids to not even try to think about a problem before asking AI. We are creating a generation of prompters, not thinkers.
The output is often not verified, then it's passed on to the next person. It's a mess.
Just watch WALL-E. It's gonna be real life one day.
SkyNet is more like it.
In most professions. AI is not going to replace you but the person that knows how to use AI better will take your spot.
I think — at least in my experience — there’s usually one easy way to tell — and if you look, you’ll see it too. A normal human being — regardless of education — doesn’t use so many em dashes. Although — I suppose one could.
I love ChatGPT for what it is meant to be and what it may eventually develop into. But right now, some people don’t understand that it definitely writes like a chat bot, and it’s noticeable.
Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
Only temporarily. Optimal use of AI is indeed a skill that can and should be exploited by a good employee trying to differentiate him- or herself from the pack. But do not underestimate the number of jobs, at all levels high to low, that will go away permanently in the near future.
The person who can demonstrate a skillset that AI cannot yet do is the one who will survive the longest. Everyone else just has the same plagiarized and AI-produced CVs and hiring managers jobs get tougher and tougher.
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