#chatgpt

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Want to hear something funny? Akinator would have been called AI if it was released today. None of this "AI" bullshit is actually anything intelligent. It's programs and algorithms and computer mimicry. It learns nothing. Chatgpt and openai and midjourney are just Akinator. The term "AI" is just a marketting ploy thats working painfully well with the people who don't understand that this tech has been around and in use for YEARS. Akinator was relased in 2007. Its just slightly more advanced Akinator tech, but its not anything artificially intelligent. I really wish we'd stop calling it "AI"

[teathattast]

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Before chatgpt people had to actually put effort into school stuff, I remember that they'll be topics that I didn't get and instead of telling a robot to explain it I went to the teacher to explain it to me in a way I'd understand and if I told them I didn't they'd find new angles and methods so I could get it. Your teacher is your friend there to help you, go to them and get them to do their job if educating you. Chatgpt won't.

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but it won't build you the the muscles.

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[dear-ao3]

it truly is cringe to rely on chatgpt for anything tho. like whats the purpose of your life if you cant even be assed to make a grocery list. or think. or do anything. u people cant do anything, can u?

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

This is a very good point and this has always been the case for some students and the main reason for drop out, only second to financial reasons and maybe now with the AI competition (that I don��t condone at all), the institutions will finally get the memo about how not even Ivy League Universities or even HSs are well equipped to adapt to modern learners (not students, learners), they still do it in the same way it was done in the past century and that only serves a few, the ones who can adapt to that system, when it should actually serve all students. Meritocracy is a wider concept than what HS/Uni rewards, but they still prefer to stick to the obsolete and very limited definition of "no pain, no gain". I have the pleasure of working with several non-profit organizations that help challenged students to get the education they need, and it´s amazing how it changes it all, and I´ve come to notice that the real change starts with the parents getting the right guidance to then be able to help their children achieve their academic goals, because truth be told, nowadays most are underprepared to make a successful transition to College, so they suffer the consequences of such lack of preparation and thus turn to ChaptGPT to cope with the curriculum. That´s the root cause, and it could easily be tackled by changing the system from the bottom up and from the top down, by just reframing the notion of what real meritocracy is and should be, based on a better, wider, healthier, yet not underachieving, new and -more accurate-meaning.

i completely understand & agree with the backlash against students using chatgpt to get degrees but some of you are out here saying "getting a degree in xyz means pulling multiple consecutive all-nighters and writing essays through debilitating migraines and having severe back pain from constantly studying at your desk and chugging energy drinks until you get a kidney stone and waking up wishing you were dead every day, and that's just part of the natural process of learning!!!" and like. umm. i don't think that any of us should have had to endure that either. like maybe the solution for stopping students from using anti-learning software depends on college institutions making the process of learning actually sustainable on the human body & mind rather than a grueling health-destroying soul-crushing endeavor

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I feel like chatgpt came around and everyone immediately forgot what they were doing to get stuff done before. like writing centers, extensions, extra help, templates, office hours, beta readers, random generators, and art and writing prompts have all existed for ages. even if you were cheating there's always been sparknotes, photomath, copying, paying someone else to do it, faking that your grandma died, and whatever. all of that stuff is more reliable and doesn't fuck over the planet. and you might actually learn something

[probablyasocialecologist]

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

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[lilbunnychann]

Like atp I don’t want to hear think pieces about cheating cause point blank it uses slave labour, that should be enough to not use it

Personally I hate AI because it uses slave labor, is killing the planet and is making people stupid, but that's just me. The soulless art aspect is just one little piece of my grander disdain.

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[xiaq]

I work in technical sales.

Last week, one of our execs used ChatGPT to create a business value assessment for a prospect (basically, why should this prospective customer choose our tech for their business needs). The data was good—but the language was impersonal, mechanical, and didn’t include the kind of terminology that would resonate with these business folks. The exec’s boss noted these concerns while we were reviewing our two part preso+demo plan (I’m the demo-er) and said “hey, Erica is a writer, get her to look it over and get it adjusted to be more relatable.”

It was quick work for us to retool the language. The director was pleased with the new version, and the presentation was incredibly well-received by the customer. They even asked to get a copy of the BVA to share internally. We’re now in contract negotiations with that prospect.

Our director spent ten minutes reviewing that document on our team meeting this afternoon emphasizing the importance of writing and editing skills and warning the team not to rely entirely on AI because it doesn’t understand customers the same way a human can.

Writing skills are important. Editing skills are important. If you are young, please hear me when I tell you that putting in the work to develop solid communication skills will benefit you in nearly ANY career path.

[amayikes]

So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

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