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I don’t know how to break this to you, but cheating was always free, simple, and ubiquitous. Sure, ChatGPT wouldn’t write your paper; but your buddy who needed
by borski 2y ago
I don’t know how to break this to you, but cheating was always free, simple, and ubiquitous. Sure, ChatGPT wouldn’t write your paper; but your buddy who needed his math problem solved would. Or find a paper on countless sites on the Internet.
- rfrey 2y agoThat's just not so. Most profs were in school years before the internet was ubiquitous. And asking a friend to do your work for you is simple, but far from free.
- anshumankmr 2y agoFree -> You would owe them a favour, or some "excessive flattery". Maybe money (never had to do that myself)
- borski 2y agoDepends on what you’re exchanging. If you’re exceptional at math (and even find it fun) and the exchange is a math problem set, that’s almost like getting paid for cheating, in a sense. So sure; not free, but free as in beer.
- rahimnathwani 2y agoIt wasn't always free. Look at Chegg's revenue trend since ChatGPT came out.
- crummy 2y agoThat wasn't free; people would charge money to write essays, and essays found online would be detected as such.
- borski 2y ago> essays found online would be detected as such Uh huh. Except for the very very very high frequency with which they weren't. Also, people traded favors. I'll grant you that's not technically "free," but it may as well have been.