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by bakugo 52 days ago
Do they really? Hating on AI slop is a common sentiment on social media, but remember that the opinions you see on social media are often not representative of what the general population thinks at all.

I keep hearing stories about how homework is now useless because every student just gets ChatGPT to do it for them, and from personal experience, I'm inclined to believe them.
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8organicbits 52 days ago
> every student just gets ChatGPT to do it

I don't believe every student uses a calculator to solve their math homework, so what makes ChatGPT unique here? For certain subjects the ability to cheat has been trivial for a long time, yet there was no crisis.

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sfink 51 days ago
The children have long had sticks and stones, so why is everyone so freaked out now that they're all carrying around grenade launchers?

What kind of math homework has been trivial to solve with a calculator? I guess you're referring to elementary school arithmetic?

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8organicbits 51 days ago
I don't follow the analogy.

When I was in high school a classmate did their chemistry homework by buying the teachers edition of the textbook, which had the answer key. The whole class knew this trick existed, but most of us slogged through the work manually. I knew another group who divided up the homework problems and then combined. Students have always known how to cheat on homework, but enough students actually do it anyway.

What makes ChatGPT unique here?

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