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“Kids are using AI to write essays and get straight As”

• necovek 4y ago
  If graders (teachers) award As on AI-produced essays, they are obviously not paying close attention, so that's on them. As a student, you need to consider what are you getting out of your education: good job tricking absent teachers, but perhaps look to them to give you better feedback on your actual writing abilities in order to improve them? It's like learning the fundamentals of math in school: sure, you can use a calculator for most stuff (and a graphing one well into college), but what do you gain from that?
• eimrine 4y ago
  I never liked to write essays on the proposed silly topics, I used to ask my mom to do that. An essay is when my thought is floating somewhere, and school essays are never thought-provoking. As far as I know about GPT-3 texts, they are enough good to make something indistinguishable from school requirements, maybe after few minor edits. You may write the lamest thing possible, but if it has a correct grammar and all the required words it is considered legit. I really like to observe this happening to schools because it obviously will force them to evolve into something more thought-provoking.
  • beardyw 4y ago
    > correct grammar and all the required words Perhaps that's the point. It is a benefit to be able to express yourself in a way which helps people take you seriously. The subtleties of English usage are like smart clothes.
    • trasz 4y ago
      From the big picture perspective school should then work to eliminate those, not to propagate (teach) them.
• donkarma 4y ago