• paraphrand
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    184 days ago

    AI is great a bullshitting.

    • @moseschrute
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      4 days ago

      Chegg wasn’t much better from what I remember. Right before my Discrete Structures II Final, my professor found most of our assignments posted and answered on Chegg. Instead of getting angry, he explained problem by problem everything the “Chegg experts” got wrong.

      And that doesn’t even get into planted incorrect answers. I’m pretty sure our computer science department would deliberately answer relevant chegg questions incorrectly. If you use that specific incorrect answer and work they know you cheated.

      ChatGPT solves all of this and I bet it does so with about the same quality as Chegg. I’m not saying I don’t think AI dumb. I’m saying Chegg was also kinda dumb.

      • JackbyDev
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        42 days ago

        Compare this to one of my college professors who would come in, Google the topic, find another universities notes to use, and then complain about them. Worst teacher ever. (He literally fell asleep during students’ presentations and then berated them about weird minute details.)

        • @moseschrute
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          I had a linear algebra professor that taught on PowerPoint, would go so fast you couldn’t keep up with notes, and if you used your phone to take a picture of the board, she would stop the class to explain to you how the slides are her intellectual property and you couldn’t take photos.

          • JackbyDev
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            22 days ago

            Some professors are just so wack… Like, if I copy your notes verbatim I’m also “stealing” your intellectual property just as much as taking a photo.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 days ago

      It really seems like they could quote sources.

      But if they did that it’d be way easier to detect the plagiarism and they’d be liable for tons of copyright infringement.

      I have no proof of this, just a hunch/consiracy.

        • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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          53 days ago

          Yep, AI has been shown to create sources (books/websites/etc.) names out of just pieces of the question asked and do it with the confidence that it’s real.