I fucking hate ChatGPT and ai and all of that shit
I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI. It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.
I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s Google. The first source for research is Google.
I’m so old I remember when Wikipedia and Google were the enemies of the educational system. This is the same sentiment.
not because the technology is inherently untrustworthy
I don’t know about where you were taught, but we were taught that Wikipedia was unreliable because anyone could edit it. Google wasn’t untrustworthy because it was an aggregator - it was the aggregation that was untrustworthy because anyone could publish anything. You couldn’t verify sources from a blog post.
I think it’s all the same gambit. You ether know you need to follow up with more research, sources, and citations, or you don’t.
I’m trying to get at the difference between regular websites/search engines and LLMs.
Websites and search engines are about storing and retrieving information. Nothing wrong with that inherently, but yeah, people can write nonsense. Same with books and libraries, except that it’s much easier to store and retrieve data. It’s just a medium used by people and people can be untrustworthy.
LLMs don’t store/retrieve, they aren’t just another medium. In a way it’s the whole Internet except with lossy compression. Sometimes you get good output, sometimes you get nonsense that sounds convincing enough. I’d trust that about as far as 4chan.
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