see here is the thing, you didn't need Chat GPT to cheat. Nature's neural networks (also called humans) have been willing to provide cheating services for far

see here is the thing, you didn't need Chat GPT to cheat. Nature's neural networks (also called humans) have been willing to provide cheating services for far cheaper than it costs OpenAI to run ChatGPT. So the question is, what were you doing then? ---- I'll share a personal anecdote on cheating and the futility of it. I am taking a course on SQL at Coursera, and at the end of the course there is a peer-reviewed project you have to do (you submit your project for others to mark, and you have to mark the project of four other students to pass). The thing is, you can already find the entire project online, a few people have posted their project for people to see, probably to help build their profile (just google "yelp coursera"). And obviously what most students did was just copy paste the damn thing, I immediately recognized that when I was marking the other candidates' projects, they didn't even bother attempting to hide it. The thing is, I am not doing this course because I am being forced to by work or anything, but because I wanted to learn. Therefore, copying pasting the project would have not achieved the goals. See, I wouldn't even have needed google to cheat, my BiL is a computer scientist, I could have easily used him to cheat if that was the goal. But I wanted to learn, so I did it on my own, as did many other students whose project I did end up agreeing to mark (I refused to mark the cheater's projects and just refreshed the tab) And since I am on HN and in tune with the tech on goings, I already had applied for the new BingGPT Chat, so I used to that to help with my project. ---- I didn't just paste my project questions, but I used it like I would have used my BiL to help; I asked it questions when my code didn't run like it should have. In other words, I would, say, google (and yes google, regular bing search is still bad) for questions like normal, but the answer from StackOverflow would be for, say, MySQL, so I would ask the BingGPT Chat to give me an example of doing the same thing in SQLite, which is what the course used. It would then recognize that I couldn't use CTE, for example (limitation of the Coursera web portal, not SQLite, in this instance), and give me an alternate way to do the same thing, and now I could use the concept to answer my own question. ---- In other words, ChatGPT is now acting as that education sibling/relative you can ask questions of to do homework... just people always have been before the existence of computers. The only benefit is that now EVERYONE has access to that educated "relative", not just the lucky ones. Now everyone can get a customized answer, and that's wonderful, imho. More importantly, is that you can now ask it follow up questions. Don't blame ChatGPT for cheating, people who wanted to cheat always could. ---- The problem with citing ChatGPT is, has anybody ever cited their relative who helped with the project? or do you cite google the search string you used? I understand what the author is getting at, but it's still strange. ChatGPT isn't the authoritative source, so why cite the prompt?