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Back in high school we used to just copy and paste stuff from a Microsoft encarta cdrom into word, print it out and hand it in. Somehow I managed to go on to h
by cruffle_duffle 2y ago
Back in high school we used to just copy and paste stuff from a Microsoft encarta cdrom into word, print it out and hand it in. Somehow I managed to go on to have a successful career in software making vastly more money than my parents or those around me.
The only real thing that would bug me is LLM’s are professional bullshitters. They are a super compressed store of knowledge that doesn’t know its own boundaries and will happily spout out perfectly written nonsense. At least encarta has effort put into making sure it is factually correct… it wasn’t compressed knowledge.
Granted it wasn’t when I was 11, but still. Not sure my point proves anything but it’s a point, damn it.
- nottorp 2y agoI bet you were one of the ones that was smart enough to not copy/paste the whole article so it was easily recognized tho.
- grues-dinner 2y agoI remember people handing in work copy pasted from Encarta, complete with the blue hyperlinks (even back then pasting formatted text was a stupid default in Word). How did I know my classmates did that? Because they managed to get that "work" pinned up on the "exemplary work" notice board! My carefully hand-tuned word art titles meant nothing in comparison! Nothing!
- daseiner1 2y agoIf that’s a point, I’m a line.