I literally just finished my final essay for a writing class which constantly asked if we used AI during the course. They'd as what our thoughts were on AI every assignment and I wish I could've used this to end my last paper with.
Have you seen starship troopers lately that guys an unquestioning fascist, I get the point you're trying to make, using LLMs to do your school work means you just don't learn, but this is not the film I'd go with to bolster an idea
I just want to add for everyone freaking out about the big college/ChatGPT article that inspired this post: My friends who teach college are *easily* the most optimistic people about that generation that I know
I completely agree. I’m an online instructor who teaches both younger, traditional students and older returning students and the only ones out of hundreds of people lately I’ve seen really trying to get away with obvious AI crap are a small number of the older ones
For me it's mostly the CS guys and the occasional rando business or criminal justice major. The CS guys collectively are giving themselves $240,000+ in useless brainrot and barely even learning how to bathe in the process.
I absolutely believe that. Business especially is useless. I teach sociology, media, terrorism, culture, and other stuff that requires really critical analysis. My assignments are designed carefully! The AI tools we have built in to our LMS platforms just don’t work for what I do
Oh, I don't know. When I'm actually grading college first year history (gen ed) papers that obviously used ai, I get pretty despondent. I just wanna put my head down and cry. but, I guess that "only" 1/4 did this year while 1/3 did last year is a cause for hope????
Isn’t that three rules? (I mean, in academia you have to be prepared for a question like that. The next question is “shouldn’t that be ‘aren’t those three rules?’”)
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2. …is that Robert Picardo?
—another educator.
"They sucked his brains out."