Charlie StrossFeb 21, 2023

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...

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Show threadEllie 🐍 🎄​Feb 21, 2023
@cstross One of my professor friends, back when Wikipedia was new, assigned her Humanities 101 class the task of creating a plausible but fake Wikipedia page and keeping track of how long it lasted, as a similar lesson in that site's trustworthiness as a source.
Show threadErgative AbsolutiveFeb 21, 2023

@noelle @cstross When I was a grad student, one of my professors got fed up with students giving the slightly wrong Wikipedia answer rather than the correct textbook answer, and so he projected Wikipedia up on the screen during lecture and changed it in real time so that it matched the textbook.

He still marked the Wikipedia answers on the homework as incorrect.

Show threadKibrika
@ergative @noelle @cstross After she changed it? XD
Feb 21, 2023 at 11:33pmWeb