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I am a student in CS, and today my uni has completely changed its policy on AI. They used to completely ban it. Now, professors use LLMs to make their course materials, generate illustrations etc. They encourage using LLMs to understand courses, to work on our projects… I have one practical session where they straight up give us the prompts to use if stuck.
Now, I might get hate and I understand it, but they are truly useful. A course that would’ve taken a whole weekend to understand is all wrapped up in a few hours. You can ask very specific and "niche" questions it’ll understand and explain in the words that are most adapted to you.
Yes, I use LLMs. I do not condone generating "art" from it like images, videos or music.
But it’s such a great tool and a teaching mentor. If you don’t use it to do your homework for you but to have a better understanding of topics you’re not familiar with it, I find it valid.
Never use ai for something you don't understand! Especially in a niche subject. AI is very good at connecting words that are statistically likely to go together. They're also biased to produce answers that sound confident.
The end result is an answer that appears correct, and if you don't know well enough to identify an "apparently correct but factually wrong" answer then you'll just believe it.
They are literally theft.
I teach computer science at a uni. I would much much perfer student to ask me the question instead of LLM. I will give them a much better answer because the LLM probably learned from my published stuff, which is already super surface level, and then they will distill again.
I understand this is not feasible for larger classes, especially introduction classes. But please, if you ever move on to upper level classes and professor welcomes questions, talk to the professor, not the LLM.