“I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
"No work, no play" sounds like an incredibly rewarding college experience.
“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.
May 7, 2025 12:16"Did I learn anything at all in the four years I spent in college? Not really. But did I use that time to live life to the fullest? Ha ha, also no."
i love to fart around on the internet but this just sounds miserable, esp. in one's teens and 20s.
ironically, the thing that made my eyes hurt this week was using various chatgpt detectors while grading. (thing i yelled down the hall at my colleagues "grading is bad enough without having to LEARN A NEW THING. I DON'T WANT TO LEARN A NEW THING")
#lifeofthemindfunny how the solution to spending too much time on TikTok to manage her course work is not "spend less time on TikTok"
In which ChatGPT again attempts to write one of my blog entries...and gets nearly every data point dead wrong.
Two years ago, with all the controversy over the frighteningly quick expansion of machine learning technology (popularly known as Artificial Intelligence (AI), even though it's not really that) over t...
The way they don't even think about doing the work themselves 😩 I still feel guilty about reading an abridged edition of War and Peace 30 years ago in undergrad
And you know what? It was dumb. I've read it more than once since then, and the professor was absolutely right to assign the whole thing.
If you’re going to skate with minimal effort at least waste your time in a more interesting way, with drugs and alcohol like god intended!
ALL the employees of these tech companies keep THEIR children as far away from screens as possible. Posh schools for the oligarchy specialize in face to face interaction, the great outdoors, etc. while the children of the masses are fair game for all kinds of shenanigans to keep them addicted.
Every one of these stories makes me appreciate my 11th grade English teacher, who made us hand-write an essay every day for an entire semester. Best writing course in the world. RIP, Wilton Sale.
Just spoke to two friends who teach literature at a community college. They hate it now; they've become detectives instead of teachers.
It's just disgusting, we all had to pay for essays back in the day, this AI stuff is ruining the college experience.
What, if it isn't imposter syndrome, what if you're an imposter.
feeling grateful my 12 year old is in journalism club and actually devotes significant time every week to writing his own thoughts. yikes.
I'm not saying I was the most studious and focused undergrad student but I at least used my free time to do stupid things *with* people, which means I at least got something other than a diploma out of the experience
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It was only a matter of time. Take away thinking in critical engagement with ideas etc & you take away the person. They become mindless, so much easier to control bc they have no grounding in anything. Perfect for the tech overlords. It’s what Musk is working for.
We are so screwed. Imagine thinking genocide and atrocities is just something your teacher assigned in class and you didnt think it important enough to read about.
Also super cool that we have this totally trustworthy, centralized information center that we are quickly becoming reliant on, and wont be used against us
As someone who went to college in my 20s & again in my 60s I see this all as a lack of ethics. Kids now seem to have no work ethics, no character ethics, nothing. Just getting things done for the sake of getting them done.
It scares me to think of what our world will be like in another 30 years.
When I return work at my job, I'm pilloried because I write three two-sentence paragraphs of feedback.They can no longer read or understand anything that's not a captioned 30- second video. And I'm not talking about young people. These people are on their 50s & went to college way before AI.
I assign handwritten research logs first, then reject their drafts if they don't use that research. I'll get that 12 hours out of them!
The incuriosity of people even as the go into higher ed is shocking to me. I loved college because of my youth and the fun I had, but the learning was a lot of fun too. Even when it sucked.
i had an undergrad tell me she quit tiktok for a year so she could focus on her classes. she’s a delightful student and i’m so glad she did that…wish more had that level of introspection and self-control.
Weird that it would take them that long to write an essay. I used to pump mine out in @ an hour just before the class started. A research paper, now, that took some time, but, an essay? If I knew the material, it was easy....
I thought this quote was an illustrative joke, but no, it's literally something a student said. Wow.
Students never procrastinated and then wrote crappy essays quickly at the last minute before ChatGpt.
As someone with ADHD I would never! 😉
(I'm not saying it's not bad. Just not a completely new thing)
does this suggest a need for maybe more of an emphasis on exams and less on papers? much harder to chatgpt your way to an A in a one-hour monitored exam, makes people prove what they have learned live
I am SO happy that eldest offspring’s college experience includes a club that requires him him to roadtrip all over the southeast with actual people and spend many hours out of doors. The time he spends on club activities may have affected his GPA, but I think he is much healthier for it.
I don't toss this word around, but it's one of the right ones here, I think: slavery.
There is an interesting tension here, AI’s don’t know anything and can’t think. A college degree is a meaningful signal that someone has a useful amount of intelligence and knowledge. People can easily get a college degree by having an AI doing all their work for them. One of those things is wrong.
Critical thinking skills are going to be a rare commodity.
At that point, college really is an unnecessary expense, and all these uneducated people will be good for is meaningless labor at wages that will barely cover rent and student loan payments.
Our future rests in the hands of youth who actually want to learn.
Humans don't seem to want to thrive.
can't wait to drive on the bridges these college "graduates" design or be treated for my cancer by one of them... it's gonna be fun
They say in college you can do any two of party/study/sleep, but she somehow managed zero.
I’ve taken classes at two Ivy online schools; I can confirm that ChatGPT essays were written by a number of students. It was crazy obvious to me but how it wasn’t crazy obvious to the instructors is another story.
While @ a local grocery store, the bagger & cashier, both college students, were openly talking about how much they cheat in their classes. No shame, no fear, & sadly...no evidence of passion for the areas in/of which they were studying. I am not sure how we change things going forward...
Everything is going according to plan.
Not encouraging for the future of our country. I'm glad that I'm older.
New world order
She should be treated for addiction.
how is it taking a college student 12 active hours to write an essay of any reasonable length
People have gotten doctorates with chat gpt as well.
This is disgusting.
I asked some straightforward musical questions via a browser, and got two different answers to the same question - both demonstrably wrong, but citing incredible supporting detail. Pretty sobering.
The CEO of my employer just this morning sent an all-staff message cheerfully touting the utility of MS CoPilot for all sorts of business functions. The corporate world is leaning into this.
2 hours for chat gpr to write an essay?
Landing the "right" job after college is all that matters. Process and experience be dammed.
Future Republican congressmen.
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Makes my partying too much and then pulling all-nighters look like I managed my time well, in comparison.
At the very least, I did have a good time.
I can’t wait for my ER doctor to be asking AI “how to stop a heart attack” while I’m dying on the table.
Trust me college kids. You will enjoy doing keg stands more than watching stupid videos on Tik Tok.
these are the people blaming the older generations for all their problems
UGG dealing with issues related to these while grading final papers from graduate students right now.
I can just imagine how well they will do when they get a job somewhere. Assuming of course that anyone actually hires them.
At least he got "your" spelled correctly.
This is not new. There are many glaring examples of people who have passed through college/university… and learnt very little on the way.
Qualifications can be required… but that’s no guarantee that the holder can do the job.
The education system is in need of an overhaul, with some common sense 🧐
College never prepared me for all the BS of corporate life. It doesn’t matter what you know, it’s who you know.
So, they're being trained to be Republicans?
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Random dumb idea I had on this: students can opt in at any point in their college career to being always allowed to use AI, but then that’s reflected on their degree - employers can decide whether they care.
Otherwise, if caught say 3x using AI, choice of expulsion or switching to that program.
So we don’t kick you out for using AI - because we can’t afford to kick out everyone who uses AI - and you still get a degree, but there’s an actual incentive to avoid AI if you can.
AI for humans who are inherently lazy.
Unsurprisingly, if you need to learn, AI can get in the way
theconversation.com/is-ai-making...
Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies
But there are easy steps everybody can take to strengthen their critical thinking skills.
"why trouble to build hardware when human brain is such soft wear?"
God, how dumb can they be
Turnitin can detect ChatGPT. Anyone using AI to write their papers should get an honors violation and lose their place at their university. Period. Full Stop.
How long before writing an essay with no access to AI becomes part of the job interview process?
I walked to the library and used pencils so, is it 'learning' if a computer is doing it for you? Is that a thing that works? How y'all doing it now?
America be cooked. “Dude, the Nazis weren’t all bad. Hitler built some killer fucking roads! They called them ‘Audobons’”. You can drive at like 150mph through town!”
It was only a matter of time. Take away thinking in critical engagement with ideas etc & you take away the person. They become mindless, so much easier to control bc they have no grounding in anything. Perfect for the tech overlords. It’s what Musk is working for.
