New on the blog: Microsoft Called It a Doom Loop. Your Reading Assignment Is Already Inside It.

A summary judgment brief unsealed on September 17 in the news organizations' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quotes an internal Microsoft document describing a "doom loop" for the web, and says Satya Nadella agreed under oath that chatbots give people the information "versus needing to go to the underlying source."

The post is about what that means for the one assumption every reading assignment rests on: that the student opens the source. A summary is usually decent. It drops the qualification, the example, the turn and the voice, which are the four things we assign readings for. The same week, MIT relaunched MIT Reads around reading whole books together.

Read it here: https://www.harvestkernel.com/reading-assignment-doom-loop/