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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I'd encourage them to research what career they could develop from that major. I've been seeing more and more jobs seeking those with journalism and English degrees, which surprised me.

For example, technical writer, various communications professionals, digital marketers/copywriters.

B2B copywriters can earn a lot.

One of the most successful people I know from college was a theatre major earning well over $200K in communications. A personality and network will do a lot to help. This person has a way with people. 
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Generative AI says hi [/quote]

NP. I write and edit blogs and web materials. Guess what? Companies are turning to AI and then turning right back to humans to edit AI-generated materials because those materials still sound bot-like and so often are inaccurate, too. And before you chime in with "AI will soon improve until you're not needed!" -- sure, it'll improve, but only by being "trained" by human writers and editors. [/quote]

Here is an excerpt from a U Wisconsin philosophy professor...decide if you think AI will dramatically change things or not:

"ChatGPT has many of my university colleagues shaking in their Birkenstocks. This artificial-intelligence tool excels at producing grammatical and even insightful essays — just what we’re hoping to see from our undergraduates. How good is it, really? A friend asked ChatGPT to write an essay about “multiple realization.” This is an important topic in the course I teach on the philosophy of mind, having to do with the possibility that minds might be constructed in ways other than our own brains. The essay ran shorter than the assigned word count, but I would have given it an A grade. Apparently ChatGPT is good enough to create an A-level paper on a topic that’s hardly mainstream."[/quote]
I think this says more about the deflated standards of modern Academia. I talk often with professors at the LAC I graduated from. They say ChatGPT can hardly write a C level paper every time they've tried it out as a department. They even have pro-AI syllabi now, because the students who use it don't do better.[/quote]

That assertion can't be supported whatsoever.  I doubt the LAC professors know how to train the model, nor are they hoping it produces great work...because if it does, it cuts to the core of their identity.

Disparaging other Academics really isn't a winning argument.[/quote]
They invite students into those particular department meetings and get them to train it for them. You should read up on the reddit forum r/professors. A lot of state schools have dropped their academic standards for the humanities and have even pressured academics to grade students higher. [/quote]

Sure…I will accept a Reddit forum as authoritative.  You realize how dumb that sounds?

Maybe they could actually hire some prompt engineers to train the LLM…you do realize that LAC students probably don’t have advanced/graduate ML or linguistics skills because a LAC doesn’t have graduate programs.  Also, it takes longer than a department meeting to train the LLM (although I imagine those are long, painful meetings).[/quote]

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