I guess they have to do this. But it will slow down adoption. You can probably get a Linux-capable and about as powerful system for a fraction of that from the Win11 hardware apocalypse...

There are obviously tons of people offering services like that, because there are tons of "students" that do not actually want to learn anything. Most just never get caught. Also, obviously, the students graduating this way will find their "expertise" to be worthless.

Fortunately, there are still (and probably always will be) enough students that actually want to learn and evolve their skills. We educators owe it to them to separate them from the dross though.

You must be somebody that watches porn for the character development and the story...

It gets a bit better when you systematically do "do not recommend channel" on all the YouTube slop, but it is still bad. In particular, channels pushing complete fabrications vor views are apparently totally fine for YT these days. Personally, I just have a small number of people for whom I look at content, and apart from the (rare) doom-scrolling, I ignore the rest.

Seriously, were are we? In kindergarten?

Funny how inhumane scum like you always thinks you are in the right. FYI, you are one of those that make large-scale evil possible because you understand nothing.

No, they do not demonstrate any "expert level capabilities". Experts always understand the "why", not just the "how". LLMs are incapable of that.

I do agree that review effort for LLM output is probably what kills their use in most application scenarios.

No. You eventually have to lock up (or kill) people for the tiniest infractions. This makes sure your economy goes to hell. (Ooooops....)
See, for example, the theocracies. Which is essentially what you are arguing for.

Indeed. I think one reason is because the US is missing a really big domestic catastrophe where they cannot conveniently blame "somebody else" for it. Or at least where that blame-shifting is obvious enough that most people see it for what it is. Hence there is this completely irrational and disconnected feeling of superiority and being invulnerable. For most people, humility only comes from an experience of abject failure. For some, it never comes. But humility is critical for seeing reality, so if you do not have it, eventually you will get it the hard way. Well, most people will.

To be fair, I think chances are really good the current US administration has made sure this catastrophe will happen quite soon. If so, at least one good thing would have come out of the current mess.

I do not know whether predestination plays a role, but wanting to damn people for all eternity (or at least the rest of their natural lives) is a common theme with religious fanatics.

Yes. The claims they want less recidivism are simply lies. It is known how to get these rates down. It is well-known that positive reinforcement works a lot better than negative. It is known that making it easy for people to reintegrate into society, most will go for it. But they want to be "tough on crime". That is denial of reality and that never gives you good outcomes.

On the plus-side, large prison populations are good for keeping our citizens in fear and laws that criminalize everything and anything allows you to get rid of inconvenient people easily. Of course, the rich and powerful almost never have any of those enforced against them, no matter what despicable and repulsive things they do.

Indeed. As is creating criminals. Hence school-to-prison pipelines and other utter evil.

And in the Soviet Union everybody knew many of these were not real criminals ...

Indeed. But the religious fundamentalists want people to be damned forever (!) and hence that is the prevalent sentiment in the US. Guess what, people that get no chance to reintegrate into society do not do so. Also makes for a nice "us vs. them" world-view, something the fundamentalists absolutely love.

The potential is there, but I do not think it will happen. Respective research would find out things that are massively unwanted by the rich and powerful. Just think about research into the mindset of malignant narcissists and you should immediately see what I mean. Or the (very solid) results that conservatives are dumber than liberals. Or that most people cannot fact-check. Or the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Bottom line is that we already know a lot, it is just not used because society and the leaders it choses are not rational. Expanding that knowledge is not desired by too many people.