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ChatGPT testing a mysterious new feature called 'study together'
- imhoguy 1y agoReview flood of AI gen slop is going to burn out many teachers as it does with programmers hit by PR floods from juniors. I worry how these who love to write will get thru the system?
- mhuffman 1y ago>Review flood of AI gen slop is going to burn out many teachers as it does with programmers hit by PR floods from juniors. No problem! There is an AI solution for that! >I worry how these who love to write will get thru the system? Eventually, I think very poorly. For now it seems that a lot of teachers can kind of tell who has used AI and who hasn't and seem to reward "old school" writers. But the future of communication, in general, seems grim.
- rightbyte 1y agoParents or siblings helping with assignments have been a longstanding problem. I guess the cost has been zeroed. Otherwise, graded assignments have always been like this and favoured the kids with the right "environment".
- pyman 1y agoMost of my students struggle to organise or bookmark the hundreds of pages they've created using ChatGPT. It gets messy. Some copy & paste everything into Google Docs. Others use custom apps or save the shareable URLs in their browser or text files, even though those links sometimes disappear over time. The problem is, ChatGPT wasn't designed to be a proper writing or word processor tool. It treats messages as disposable, not like saved documents you can return to, structure, or modify easily.
- tossandthrow 1y ago> It treats messages as disposable IMHO this is something to lean into. Students should not save chats like references. They should document their findings from the conversations and make sure they can ask again, should the need arrise.
- pyman 1y agoI was saying the same thing a year ago, but now more students are using it and creating all sorts of documents: summaries of transcripts and articles, flashcards, quizzes, mock exams and interviews, research, role plays, study and fitness plans, tutorials, how-to guides, and more. They even turned homework into riddle-based mystery games.
- pyman 1y agoThe most tech-savvy students built their own publishing system using ChatGPT. It lets others turn their message into a JSON object, tag it, and add it to the system, which then gets published and shared with everyone using Google Docs. The prompt they use to export the ChatGPT messages is: --- Turn the following text into JSON format. The JSON should have three fields: "title", "prompt", and "data". The "title" should be self-generated, based on the main idea or theme of the input text. The "prompt" should be the exact prompt used to generate the "data" section. The "data" should be in markdown format, and it must include the original prompt as a section inside the markdown, followed by the input text. Keep any formatting like headings, bold, italics, and lists. --- I asked them to include the prompt to preserve context so others can understand their thinking process and the goal behind the message.
- bananapub 1y agoit really is amazing how little care or thought openai is putting in to what they're doing - and everyone else is letting them do - to society. it feels like they'll be the lead paint of the 2020s that the survivors in 2050 fixate on as a cause of human intelligence collapse.
- varelse 1y ago[dead]
- johnnyanmac 1y agoit's 2025. As another article put it: this is "The Rise of 'Whatever' ". Mediocrity flourishing, grifters exploiting the mediocrity and people too tired or dejected to push back against the mediocrity. AI is a grifters' and coporate's wet dream; it was never about making quality technology to improve everyone's life. There's many ways to address this, but most solutions fall far outside of tech.
- mhh__ 1y agoPerhaps but it could just as easily be the feedback that finally breaks up the monopoly that slop has on the world at the moment e.g. react, bullshit jobs etc could all go away. The latter in particular
- rightbyte 1y agoReact?
- f6v 1y agoI don’t know why people get so frustrated here. Studying with chatgpt changed my life. I can compare doing it in early 2010s and now. Cheating? Well yeah, everyone was doing it long before LLMs.
- ruslan_sure 1y ago'Don't panic!', right? They're at the forefront of AI application now (by their audience) so it's ok not to know what to do and stumble.
- tauntz 1y agoPotentially related to https://openai.com/index/estonia-schools-and-chatgpt/ https://openai.com/index/estonia-schools-and-chatgpt/ / https://tihupe.ee/en https://tihupe.ee/en to some extent.
- OfficeChad 1y ago[dead]
- cal_dent 1y agoFeels strange watching an organisation of this size and scale (monetarily speaking) that seems to have no real clear idea on what product they want to deliver/or think would be a useful output essentially vibeproduce based on incomplete assumptions of how their users currently engage with their widget. Is this actually the best use of their skilled team’s time? I have little knowledge in this space but the answer seems like no to me. Maybe low hanging fruit? Fascinating and wild
- UrineSqueegee 1y agoi've never even remotely gotten that idea except maybe with GPT's? studying is what I assume a very large chunk of their userbase is using their service for, and they are trying to compete with the extremely successful Notebook LM
- Bluestein 1y agoAlso, I think they are just "focus-grouping by fire-extinguishing", attempting to address the disruptive effect their golem is having in education.-
- gherkinnn 1y agoI have zero insight and rarely use their products. And yet, from the outside their pace and ideas amaze me. It is novel terrain, it would be a shame for a company in their position not to explore several avenues, disparate or surprising as they may seem.
- robviren 1y agoReminds me of WW1 airplane use. We are at the pilot dropping grenade and using pistol to shoot at other pilot stage for technical application I guess. Nobody really knows what to do but everyone is sure trying.
- hopelite 1y agoI can’t wait for the firebombing ancient cities full of priceless artifacts out of ethnic malice and vengeance, carpet bombing innocent people for terroristic purposes, and nuking multiple cities full of innocent people into dust and then patting ourselves on the back about how noble, ethical, moral, humane, and just we are stage.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoIt would be cool if it can generate practice questions based on a given assignment
- EForEndeavour 1y agoIsn't that just a sentence and document upload or screenshot away from any of the current leading LLM-powered chat products? You're a brilliant expert at clear, effective, and responsive teaching and explanations of topic X, which I'm studying. Here's my assignment. Draft Y questions to test my understanding and assess my current level
- koakuma-chan 1y agoFor math that gives questions without a nice solution.
- EForEndeavour 1y agoI'm curious to learn more about your math use cases, as I haven't actually tried to use ChatGPT to learn pure math. What area and level have you been studying, and which model(s) have you tried to use to generate questions and solutions? Does it just give confidently incorrect solution-shaped gibberish?
- koakuma-chan 1y agoI'm just doing grade 12 math, and I actually can't find what exactly didn't work for me. I use Gemini 2.5 Flash and I gave it my calculus assignment, and it seems to work well.
- drakonka 1y agoThis is an interesting idea, and I wonder if it could be a response to some of the increasingly reported 'brain rot' experiences with AI usage. There are things that I opt not to use ChatGPT for because I know it will be harmful to my long/medium-term mental capacity. Being able to use it in a mode that is actively designed to facilitate thinking rather than bypass it could be useful.
- tempaway43563 1y agoChatGPT testing a mysterious new feature called 'hype treadmill'
- 4b11b4 1y agoIs this the mode where I upload a PDF of my homework assignment, now _with_ the other students in my class?
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