The link seems to be the obvious cut and paste cheating coupled with how many forums respond negatively to overt cheating with a dose of perspective from the llm as the responder to said flagrant cheating
It’s one thing to come up with an explanation that makes sense. It’s another to try to scaffold an explanation to adjust reality into the way you want it to be. Stop lying to yourself, human.
The best answer we have right now is we don’t understand what’s going on in these models.
Looks to me like they seeded the distinction several messages earlier. If you expand the messages, one of them has a very large block of text and this in the middle:
> I cannot have personal experiences, but I can imagine how this theory might manifest in human behavior.
Cheating themselves, maybe. Graded homework is obvious nonsense because incentives don't align and there's no reliable way to make them align and ensure fairness.
I graduated college a decade ago, but I have to admit, if I were still in school it would have been incredibly hard to resist using LLMs to do my homework for me if they existed back then.
It's absolutely significantly different, especially for certain types of classes and problems.
> Why on earth would you lol.
Because school is hard, I was a kid, homework takes a ton of time, and I would rather be playing video games. Of course the temptation to cheat would be there.