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Reminds me of a Reddit story that made the rounds about a professor asking ChatGPT if it wrote papers, to which it frequently responded afirmatively. He sent an
by techjamie 10mo ago
Reminds me of a Reddit story that made the rounds about a professor asking ChatGPT if it wrote papers, to which it frequently responded afirmatively. He sent an angry email about it, and a student responded by showing a response from ChatGPT claiming it wrote his email.
- gblargg 10mo ago> student responded by showing a response from ChatGPT claiming it wrote his email Which is actually fine. Students need to do their own homework. A teacher can delegate writing emails.
- arcanemachiner 10mo agoI believe you just got whooshed.
- MengerSponge 10mo agoA person arguing in favor of LLM use failed to comprehend the context or argument? Unpossible!
- gblargg 10mo agoI don't think I was arguing for LLMs. I wish nobody used them. But the argument against a student using it for assignments is significantly different than that against people in general using them. It's similar to using a calculator or asking someone else for the answer: fine normally but not if the goal is to demonstrate that you learned/know something. I admit I missed the joke. I read it as the usual "you hypocrite teacher, you don't want us using tools but you use them" argument I see. There's no need to be condescending towards me for that. I see now that the "joke" was about the unreliability of AI checkers and making the teacher really angry by suggesting that their impassioned email wasn't even their writing, bolstered by their insistence that checkers are reliable.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoTwo posts from you addressing a one-line reply? May be time to put down the coffee and take a drag from the mood-altering-substance of your preference.
- gblargg 10mo agoI realize you might have failed to comprehend the level of my argument. It wasn't even about LLMs in particular, rather having someone/something else do your work for you. I read it as the student criticizing the teacher for not writing his own emails, since the teacher criticizes the students for not writing their own classwork. Whether it's an LLM or them hiring someone else to do the writing, this is what my rebuttal applied to. I saw what I thought was flawed reasoning and wanted to correct it. I hope it's clear why a student using an LLM (or another person) to write classwork is far more than a quality issue, whereas someone not being tested/graded using an LLM to prepare written material is "merely" a quality issue (and the personal choice to atrophy their mental fitness).
- gblargg 10mo agoYes, I missed the student using the teacher's trust in those tools to make them even more angry and neuter their angry email that they (probably) actually wrote themselves. Well-played.
- recursive 10mo agoBut if he didn't delegate, and it said he did, that would suggest that the methodology doesn't really work.
- weird-eye-issue 10mo agoYou missed the entire point lol
- gblargg 10mo agoYeah, I'm really sorry. I didn't realize it would upset so many people.
- gblargg 10mo agoApologies to everyone I upset by this comment. It was just an innocent mis-reading of the joke. Lesson learned.