Someone has already pointed out that the fact that ChatGPT can create a passable high school essay is not so much an achievement in artificial intelligence as it is a condemnation of the way American schools teach people to write, and that’s a more succinct version of my own professional critique. The fact that grammatically or syntactically correct semi-nonsense collected from shallow knowledge can displace real world tests of comprehension means we’re not holding ourselves to a particularly high standard. Actual use of ChatGPT for articles or essays or code will produce more of the content that made its output subpar, and achieve little besides accelerating the homogenization of mediocrity.