ed io che sono?

i think it's important to make this dinstinction clear, because what those ai idiots are trying to do is passing off one thing for another. they are using the accessibility argument to hide the fact that they see the perceived social prestige educated people have in society, and want that without understanding and/or valueing the work it takes or the specific contents of the learning. if you use that argument, they will respond with "but i'm doing something good for society, i'm removing economic barriers to education!" which is not what they're doing and they perfectly know it, but now you've fallen for their game because you're caught in the trench of having to argue about the very real problem of economic accessibility with a person who's doing it disingenuously.

it's not about the money nor the time, because if it was they would use the free resources they already had: the ai college costs 200€ a month for full access, which in a year is a bit more than twice the amount i spent for my yearly uni tuition. it might still be less than what an american uni costs, but browsing anna's archive, using libraries, learning to look for answers in published papers, and asking other educated people on online spaces dedicated to the humanities is free.

but this is exactly the point: doing all that stuff for free doesn't give you the immediate result of posting pseudo-intellectual crap on the internet and getting that perceived social prestige they're after. what ai university is selling is not education, it's the fantasy of being an intellectual, and in this regard it's literally no different from any other luxury item. you buy the brand name bag because you want the fantasy of being rich, not because you are. crucially, the fantasy of being an intellectual doesn't include knowing what an intellectual is or does, it's just enough to know how they appear: you can see it by all the ways they made their college "dark-academia aesthetics", by the sheer amount of stuff they offer not understanding that often education works by studying a single topic thoroughly, by pushing their "tutorial method" (the fantasy of the socratic dialogue, without really understanding how important individual work is), by the amount of words they spend on describing the ways this is not just your regular gen-ai ("this is luxury, not something you can get somewhere else!"), by how they describe the assessment process. that's an ineffectual exam strategy, we all know that, but it doesn't matter, because what matters is that they're selling the fantasy of being an intellectual discussing Intellectual Stuff™ with other intellectuals. it's basically a circle-jerk.

we can also argue about the fact that the world is constantly moving the goalpost of what the minimal education to access the most basics of jobs is, but i definitely won't do it with potential ai college customers. and anyways you can evidently see that this is not what the ai college is about. if it was, they would have put up a page describing how getting a degree works in there and how it's comparable to traditional degrees. instead, they only describe how to do exams, not because "they're about learning, not getting a degree", but because what the ai college is selling a subscription to boost your ego and if they gave you even a fictitious degree you would phase out of the system and stop giving them money.

i almost feel bad like lea him aloneeee he's a faggot omg