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by rozap 754 days ago
Please, be a serious person. The tagline of the homepage is literally "Turn Hours Of Homework Into Minutes" and you're acting surprised that they're upset? You built a tool to make academic misconduct even easier. ChatGPT is already something teachers are struggling with and you're repackaging it and marketing it as an easy button.

Honestly I can't imagine that a real human who grew up in this universe would be surprised at this, but there definitely does seem to be a class of valley dwellers that seem to think their actions play out in a vacuum, in which case, yea, drop outta school and move to the valley, and start slangin' products that ultimately hurt your users the most. The point of homework is to do it and think about it, not to get it done.

Because at the end of the day, tools to help you get through coursework with the greatest conservation of ignorance only hurt the student. There will be kids in the course who do put in the effort, learn the material, and they will absolutely kick the shit out of the kids who didn't when it's time to enter the job market.

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By "valley" do you mean "Silicon Valley"? You're not wrong, and this might be a Stanford thing, but it's easily a Harvard or Columbia (i.e Ivy League) thing. (Zuck and hot-or-not being a Harvard critter.)