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Author laments AI's exacerbation of academic narcissism

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The author reflects on a perceived narcissistic solipsism within academia, which they believe has been exacerbated by the rapid emergence of AI. This observation, which they have noted for decades, has become more pronounced and disturbing with the advent of AI technologies. AI

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Author laments AI's exacerbation of academic narcissism

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    I did other stuff before I moved into academia, lo, these thirty-odd long years ago. So I have always noticed, like a festering pustule at the end of everyone's

    I did other stuff before I moved into academia, lo, these thirty-odd long years ago. So I have always noticed, like a festering pustule at the end of everyone's nose, the insouciant short-termist narcissistic solipsism that we are socialized into and filtered for at every level. …

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