The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.
So the homework is encouraging kids to explore a real life tool and the teacher can look at the result and corrects any issue with the result thus guiding the students towards a appropriate usage.
It’s a good thing.
you can’t be serious
At the end of the day generative AI not only exists but is likely right at the start of a logistics curve. In ten years time this tech is going to be pervasive
Future generations learning how to utilize powerful new technologies is a bad thing now?
I bet calculator usage also goes up during the school year
I’m from the “show your work, you won’t carry a calculator around when you’re in the real world” generation. This hits home hard.
While im from the early “Not much in life needs manual calculation, and if it does we already have a calculator on us at all times” generation haha.
Honestly, I could work harder on practicing mental calculations even now, but I see vastly more value in continuing my learning of technology to improve my career and hobbies.
This is the way
Would you rather have them only use it outside of school work where no one will point out that it can be wrong? Teachers could also ask questions on the studied subject in class to teach student that by copy pasting the output they are not learning much.
ChatGPT exist, kid will use it. Should adults guide them?
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By that time it’s going to be an app on our neural implant.
Just like when we were growing up the teachers said we wouldn’t always have a calculator. They need to learn to use the tool responsibly, just like Wikipedia.
I’m not sure whether or not to call my daughter lucky that she couldn’t get away with this on her school-issued Chromebook, but it’s probably for the best.
ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.
I disagree. The chart shows a 12% growth. How does it make ChatGPT a tool that is mainly being used by students? Some of these 12% are probably people, who came back from vacations.
Also, not necessarily cheating even if used for school. I have a college professor that words homework so weird, I run it through ChatGPT to “translate”
That’s me, yup. Barely touched it over the summer, but I use it all the time to help lesson plan, invent fake case studies, and more.
Trends don’t confirm hypotheses like this one. And they don’t appear to have the data for a proper causal analysis. At best, they have an interesting data point.
Terrible article, let me save you all the time. Students using ChatGPT = Cheating , there you go, that’s the article.
It isn’t cheating any more than Wikipedia is cheating and Wikipedia isn’t cheating any more than an encyclopaedia is cheating.
Just get out of then new world if you can’t lend a hand.
So you are suggesting that a student looking up information on Wikipedia is the same level of academic dishonesty as someone turning in a paper written by chatgpt?
What the fuck?
That’s not what they, or the stats, said. You can use chatgpt without plagiarizing, just like how you can use wikipedia without copy-pasting the whole article.
It’s not about plagiarizing. It’s about needing to know whether you, not ChatGPT, can actually write well. How are you going to write original research? ChatGPT can maybe sort of help write your introduction, but it can’t write about something you’ve just discovered. You have to know how to write or else you’ll never be able to write anything original. Imagine how depressing the world will be when everything you read is just AI-mass-genersted pablum imitating and simulating human experience, but not truly connected to an actual person with real emotions.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ChatGPT was supposed to be the fastest-growing tech product in history, so this reversal got the technosphere theorizing as to why the chatbot wasn’t so hot anymore.
Then there’s the amusing comparison with interest in Minecraft, a popular video game that kids love to play when they’re not using ChatGPT to cheat on their homework.
However, if usage is only recovering because students are back, that may be a bad sign because it suggests there’s a limited range of use cases for ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots.
Mark Shmulik, a top internet analyst at Bernstein, made this point at the start of the summer, when usage fell.
In other words, if a big part of ChatGPT growth is driven by cheating students, this means the technology, or at least the chatbot format, may not be the dominant computing platform of the future.
OpenAI did release this guide for teachers at the end of August, which suggests ways to use ChatGPT in the classroom, including prompts and lesson plans.
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Only if you don’t have the patience to use Chatgpt properly.
Homework shouldn’t even exist anymore, it’s antiquated and gives kids no work/life balance. (It might actually be a conspiracy to condition them to being worked to death.)
And how do your propose to stop it? The cats out of the bag, you need to design better homework.
Right?!
Don’t tell students to write a book report, have them present one. Ask them live questions about their knowledge. It’s also a great skill to have, knowing how to present.
It’s so simple.
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Based teacher tbh
I don’t understand why anyone wants to stop it. I’m a teacher and since ChatGPT came out, my job got so much easier. I will say, ahead of my examples, that I proofread everything it creates and make sure all the facts are straight before submitting anything, but it’s still a lot quicker.
I can use it to provide feedback on students work, I use it to write up lesson plans and schemes of work, I use it to draft emails, I use it to give me ideas for activities etc.
99.9% of the time there are parts I need to edit or delete due to irrelevance but it’s done the bulk of the work. This is the same for students work, if they don’t proofread it they will most likely hand in incorrect work.
There shouldn’t be homework to begin with. Kids go to school FULL TIME, not including commute.
My senior secondary board believes that students. should spend 6 hours a week per subject on top of the hours they are physicians in class. It is insane
Whoa, they make those kids see patients during class?
what is a senior secondary board? This is more or less the average amount of time I spent on work outside of class in College.
I agree with you for most things except math. For math and math based courses you need to practice a ton to get it.
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as is the arts as well. there’s a reason humans excel at different things in different ways
We should send them somewhere to practice those things 7 hours a day 5 days a week
Disagree.
You can get all the practice you need during school hours.
Maybe we should stop learning about the Ming dynasty and memorizing the Canterbury tales if we needed more time for math practice.
In many countries, schools only care about grades. I was pretty good at getting good grades by understanding what will be tested and minimizing the effort to get there. I would’ve totally used ChatGPT to do my homework.
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At work when I write certain emails or code snippets I’ll paste them into ChatGPT and ask it to make the email sound “more professional” or “optimize this code.” ChatGPT also talks to me like SHODAN from System Shock 😆
I hope you know what you’re doing. That’s a good way to share company secrets with outsiders, also it’s uncertain whether you’re even legally allowed to use the resulting code.
I appreciate your concern, but no worries. The company code is structured text as I program B&R PLCs and ChatGPT is pretty useless (so far) for that kind of code. The python code I paste in is more for personal hobbies.
In a similar industry. Friend used it to write Wireshark dissectors for their interface between the PLC and software system. I haven’t used ChatGTP yet, but for certain boiler plate tasks it might be useful. I used to dump tag lists and generate ladder logic with some regex and python to fix the rung numbering within Notepad++. Dumb stuff nobody wants to do by hand.
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Prompt better. I use it extensively and the code I get is usually a good start. But it can’t do anything.
I use it quite a lot, and its code is usually either functional, or within a stone’s throw, and debugging its code is usually faster than writing something myself.
The data is in: Business Insider is mainly a tool.
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discussion in here looking like old r/teenagers with predictable takes
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Clearly an article written to fit a headline rather than the other way around. They talk about use in education settings as a sign that the use cases are limited, despite accounting for only a 12% increase.
In other news, pencil use is up 100% in the last month, signaling that pencils have limited use cases and are only good for cheating on homework.
Bro the capability of a pencil is a far better medium to expresses concepts. One could argue that a pencils ability to express shades of grey exceeds the capability of the pen. In some ways the pen has an effect of finality.
