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I will say one thing for this experiment: it is good to put this out in the open. I believe that if educators attempt to suppress LLM usage, or deride it in fro
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
I will say one thing for this experiment: it is good to put this out in the open. I believe that if educators attempt to suppress LLM usage, or deride it in front of their students, or persecute students when they believe they have detected LLM usage in homework, then students will not stop using LLMs, but instead the students will internalize this illicit perspective, and they will conceal their usage of LLMs, and they will be unwilling to reveal or admit that they are using LLMs in their coursework. In this way, it will be not unlike Wikipedia: a forbidden, shameful, and fatally flawed tool that everyone uses anyway.
I believe it's very important to encourage students to be transparent and to cite their sources, and give credit where credit is due (even if that LLM is going to violate copyright at the drop of a hat). So, students, when you use ChatGPT, declare that you used it. Cite it as a source; cite it properly; you'll want to name the engine and its version number, the date you accessed it, and all prompts in that conversation.
I believe that educators who are introducing LLMs in their curriculum are making the right call. Meet this head-on, not as a threat, but as an emerging tool, and get ahead of the hype and the FUD. And I'm confident that students will find out for themselves about all the bullshitting and hallucinations that go on, for better or worse.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoThe preconditions for your vision simply cannot exist under capitalism.
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- Paul-Craft 3y agoYour comment is currently gray, but I would like to hear why you think this.
- 111111IIIIIII 3y agoIn our society, institutional education is increasingly necessarily a for-profit pursuit. Regardless the intentions of any entity involved, the structural (or, institutional) first priority must be profit. On the part of the pupil that pays for an education, their relation to the teacher and institution is limited by their competitive pursuit of a career. Altogether, anything which risks the institution's potential for profit or the individual pupil's competitive edge in the career market is unsustainable in the aggregate (or, "at scale" in HN lingo). If education itself is compromised, then so be it. This is the norm for good reason. There is no alternative (under capitalism).