nothing has made me feel like an ancient grumpy crone more than the “using chatgpt for school is fine actually” sentiment among youths
if you use chatgpt to write your english assignments that is bad. you should not do that
this has been accelerated by watching my roommate who teaches freshmen composition slowly become ben_affleck_smoking.jpg as he has to fail multiple students every semester for using chatgpt
like. this is bad and this person should feel bad lol this completely misses the point of writing assignments. the point is the production, not the end product
critical thinking is a genuinely important life skill, whether or not you pursue higher education. fascism relies on anti-intellectualism!
AND IT’S TERRIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. what are we doing here
Your ability to think for yourself is one of the most valuable powers you have, and one of the only things no one can take away from you.
Do not give it away willingly.
How does this stuff not count as plagiarism?
It is plagiarism, and it's plagiarism even if you disclosed that you used chatgpt, because chatgpt cannot cite its sources and plagiarism in academia is less about "intellectual property" like disney type shit and more about being able to trace an idea back to where it came from.
Without the power to follow a line of citations back to the original source, human knowledge falls apart like a sand castle. You cant criticize an idea if you don't know where it came from. You cant even tell if it's true. If there is no source, you don't know if it came from a reputable scientific journal or some pamphlet titled Why White People Are The Superior Race.
i think some professors are well meaningly openminded about these technologies and don't really truly understand how they work. Which is not their fault, the technologies have been consistently called something they're not.
ChatGPT creates sentences based on probabilities of what words are likely to go together. This is especially dangerous because it's likely to say things that "everyone knows," things that lots of people believe, the very things that seem the most innocuous simply because they're commonplace, and are the most dangerously wrong because they're commonplace.
ChatGPT's training data contains all of the racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and other prejudice, hatred, and bigotry of the society that produced that data. The developers can stop ChatGPT from saying slurs and other disgusting stuff its training data certainly provides, but censoring the filth that is present within this machine really makes it more dangerous: the bigotry is still there, it's just that the text will only be generated if the bigotry is subtle enough to escape these filters.
If ChatGPT's training data shows that someone named "John" is more likely to be described as "brilliant" or "great" or "strong" and someone named Mary is more likely to be described as "pretty," it's going to make sentences that reflect that. If the data shows a statistical correlation between the words "Muslim" or "Islam" and the words "extremism" or "war," it's going to put those words together more often. Can we see how this might be a problem
your ability to have your own thoughts and ideas is so valuable. it is absolutely priceless and precious. You can be born into a world where a disease is incurable and become the person to cure it, you can be born into a bigoted culture and choose to believe in the value of all human beings, you can see a weird bug that no one has ever found beautiful or interesting or worthy of study and devote your life to studying it and learning to see its amazing and divine beauty. Why? Because you can THINK. Because you have your own mind and your own power to create new ideas and to direct and channel the love within your heart.
You are not just a muddled puddle of all the ideas and knowledge you have happened to encounter, passively absorbing whatever is around you. You have your own energy to confront the world with ferocious curiosity!