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Remember that professor who fed student essays to ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them. Mostly ChatGPT would reply yes, and the professor proceeded to fail the st

by sampo 3y ago

Remember that professor who fed student essays to ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them. Mostly ChatGPT would reply yes, and the professor proceeded to fail the students.

perihelions 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163 ("Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP [sic]", 277 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980121 ("Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers", 22 comments)
- jrockway 3y ago
  My main takeaway is that failing the second half of the class and misspelling ChatGPT leads to > 10x engagement.
  - perihelions 3y ago
    Err, out of abundance of caution, the misspelling of "ChatGPT" which I [sic]'d is original to the Texas A&M professor, who repeated the misspelling multiple times in his email/rant. The HN poster quoted the professor literally, and I am thus transitively [sic]'ing the professor – not the HN poster. I am not mocking an HN poster's typo.
    - Dalewyn 3y ago
      It still leaves the burning question whether it's half or the whole pie. :V
    - Freedom2 3y ago
      That's interesting. Unlike Reddit, maintaining an article's actual title isn't a priority on this site, and moderation is only too happy to change it at their whims. I'm surprised that the spelling wasn't corrected by mods out of pedantry.
  - einpoklum 3y ago
    My main takeway is that the guy who registers chatgtp.com is going to make a lot of money by providing bogus answers to frivolous questions :-)
    - croes 3y ago
      There will be lots of data stealing ChatGPT plugins
masklinn 3y ago
Funnily enough chatgpt had no more idea about that than about these legal cases, it lives in a state of perpetual hallucination and making stuff up is its only mode of operation.
- throwawayForMe2 3y ago
  It hallucinates a sequence of tokens, and we hallucinate meaning.
  - SZJX 3y ago
    We with computer science knowledge understand this, but not the mass who are buying into the hype.

by sampo 3y ago

Remember that professor who fed student essays to ChatGPT and asked if it wrote them. Mostly ChatGPT would reply yes, and the professor proceeded to fail the students.

perihelions 3y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35963163 ("Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP [sic]", 277 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980121 ("Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers", 22 comments)

jrockway 3y ago
My main takeaway is that failing the second half of the class and misspelling ChatGPT leads to > 10x engagement.
- perihelions 3y ago
  Err, out of abundance of caution, the misspelling of "ChatGPT" which I [sic]'d is original to the Texas A&M professor, who repeated the misspelling multiple times in his email/rant. The HN poster quoted the professor literally, and I am thus transitively [sic]'ing the professor – not the HN poster. I am not mocking an HN poster's typo.
  - Dalewyn 3y ago
    It still leaves the burning question whether it's half or the whole pie. :V
  - Freedom2 3y ago
    That's interesting. Unlike Reddit, maintaining an article's actual title isn't a priority on this site, and moderation is only too happy to change it at their whims. I'm surprised that the spelling wasn't corrected by mods out of pedantry.
- einpoklum 3y ago
  My main takeway is that the guy who registers chatgtp.com is going to make a lot of money by providing bogus answers to frivolous questions :-)
  - croes 3y ago
    There will be lots of data stealing ChatGPT plugins

masklinn 3y ago

Funnily enough chatgpt had no more idea about that than about these legal cases, it lives in a state of perpetual hallucination and making stuff up is its only mode of operation.

throwawayForMe2 3y ago
It hallucinates a sequence of tokens, and we hallucinate meaning.
- SZJX 3y ago
  We with computer science knowledge understand this, but not the mass who are buying into the hype.