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I have enrolled in a language course recently. Most of people (if not all except me) are there by the working agency and are to be integrated in the country. Almost all of them do tasks with translator and chatgpt. That's fucking insane! I can't believe that THIS MANY do use llms for everything in their lives.
Teacher has to remind many of them that they should not use chatgpt. Like that one girl who barely speaks language and is super inconsistent in her grammar did a homework essay and received c1 grade while she speaks barely a2. No one will be able to use LLM during an exam. They'll fail if they won't use their own brain. How can anyone be so blind? Bemuses me to.
Just today I was talking with a coworker about stuff, chatgpt comes up on their phone and I ask to write it to go fuck itself. The reply of that coworker was "I cannot do that, it will ruin my profile reputation. I have tracked everything and don't wanna mess it up."
Some people are just fucking stupid. That same coworker also find incredible/scary that chatgpt remember what you wrote in other chats.
We are doomed as a species.
Im in the middle of immegrating and I'd say that translators (not specifically LLMs, though I wouldnt be surprised if Google translate is all LLM powered now) have been indespensible for me to navigate. But I also try to use them to supplement what my classes are teaching. Like I'm at the store, I need to find the coffee, and I don't know the word for coffee, so I look up just that word since I know "where is x"
It's slower than looking up everything, but most of the time I find I learn decently well. Some things though like being at the pharmacy and trying to explain what kind of thing I need, I fully use translate for because my gesturing and toddler level speak isn't gonna cut it.
I'd never use it on homework though, except maybe to double check something I'm guessing on. How does anyone expect to learn?