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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.

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't sound like an AI problem, sounds like a lazy student problem. These are students that would have done poorly before AI and tried to use other methods to slide by easier. You aren't seeing anything new, you are just using the reason du jour to blame it on.

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure why you got downvoted, 30 years ago we just plagiarized and teachers were none the wiser. Students have always been finding ways to cheat the system. In some cases inadvertently learning more 😂

Now at least teachers have more tools to detect when a student is taking shortcuts.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm being downvoted because I wasn't explicitly blaming AI for all of our problems like everyone seems to want to do now. It's a scapegoat for so much shit. Honestly, it dilutes the real problems with it, like power consumption, and the hardware shortages. But, no, we have to blame everything on AI, because no one was lazy before ChatGPT came around.