ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
  • JollyG@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 months ago

    I’ve got a buddy who is a professor and he catches llm cheaters by asking them difficult questions like “what was your essay about?” and “what were the three points you made in your essay?”. I’m sure llm proponents will offer some bromide about “tools aren’t inherently good or bad”, but it seems like the reality in college is llm tools are used for cheating.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I can’t imagine the nightmare that is being a teacher nowadays, but also that is absolutely the fault of the individual. I had many ways I could cheat in school prior to AI and did not.

    • Punkie@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      It’s pretty scary: I am seeing it in the IT sector as well. It’s not just knowledge; anyone can look up things, even Einstein did it. “I never memorize anything that I can look up,” he said once, about the why he never memorized cosine tables and such. But it’s basic logical flow of thought and problem solving. Like the skills behind the knowledge, that I see less and less of.