“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
Speechless.
Who knew steganography would become so important for college profs.
I mean…
I think his friend could come up with a more apt metaphor if he didn’t use chatgpt all the time.
May 7, 2025 11:24Using chatGPT to write shit for you is like getting in a taxi, telling the driver to take you to the airport, and bragging about how you know how to navigate the city.
Yeah I am pretty sure contractors definitely turn on all their power tools and toss them on a pile of lumber and tell them to build a house
terrible metaphor, did his friend ask cgpt to write that? A nailgun may eradicate 95% of the effort of driving a nail, but that doesn't mean the nailgun pretends to know how to frame a house (and proceed to frame a house badly anyways). Making the work easier != doing the work for you.
As for, 'would a partner be angry if I used cgpt to generate them a poem?' Yes! As they fucking should be! 'The level of effort I want to put into this relationship and you is asking a shambling mound of code to fake a sincere emotional effort'. Hideous.
Every essay I ever wrote I did under exam conditions. I don't honestly understand why any professor would move away from that.
“What is the value proposition?” Sounds like this student pays attention in business classes and nothing else, damn
Hope those kids realize they're literally pushing their universities to start requiring they come on campus and into a controlled environment just to work on homework and essays.
Where this leads is examinations with pen and paper - for the institutions and students who can afford it
"—after he has drafted them with chatGTP" 🤦🏻
The only solution: No more homework. Bonus points if students are only allowed to use pens, or pencils, and paper. Plus, ditch the ebooks.
Legit on Monday we had an entire class where my professor, a distinguished and highly published research doctor, showed us how ChatGPT will hallucinate by asking it about her journals, and it either credited her work to a different doctor, or made up journals she never wrote.
Watching her responses to it get angrier and angrier in real time was exceptionally funny. She had to feed the thing the full name of one of her journals along with the DOI number before it went "OH YEAH HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR :)" and finally posted the literacy journal.
Using ChatGPT to do your coding assignments is actually insane lol, not gonna make it
I've been seeing similar in the woodworking community for years, people who use lasers to cut designs, do a crappy finish and call it woodworking. Not even their designs, they buy patterns and fonts. And that's it, that's the extent of what they do.
Mark the whole point of assigning you an essay is to help you to learn how to write and think, there is no "value proposition" re: what some college sophomore writes about the Peninsular Campaign or whatever, no one is going to read it for any reason other than to evaluate how well you're learning
The true value is not in the final output, the true value is in the input.
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Naw man, the analogy to constructing a house with power tools works if your tools are, like, Zotero, or the Thesaurus or auto-correct functions
Building a house with "tools" more analogous to AI would be if you 3D printed the house using a two-story machine
That guy doesnt actually have any friends
i think it’s a good metaphor but not how it was intended.
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