[busyant]

I asked chatgpt to write an essay as if it were written by a mediocre 10th grader. It did a reasonably good job. It threw in a little bit of slang and wasn’t particularly formal.

Edit. I sometimes tell my students “if you’re going to cheat, don’t give yourself a perfect score, especially if you’ve failed the first exam. It fires off alarm bells.”

But the students who struggle usually can’t calibrate a non-suspicious performance.

I guess the same applies here.

[Baeocystin]

You've touched upon a central issue that is not often addressed in these conversations. People who have difficulty comprehending and composing essays also struggle to work with repeated prompts in AI systems like ChatGPT to reach a solution. I've found in practice that when showing someone how prompting works, their understanding either clicks instantly, or they fail to grasp it at all. There appears to be very little in between.