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This is a problem with integrity, not AI. If I have AI write me a paper and then proof read it to make sure the information is accurate and properly sourced how is that wrong?
Imagine you go to a gym. There's weights you can lift. Instead of lifting them, you use a gas powered machine to pick them up while you sit on the couch with your phone. Sometimes the machine drops weights, or picks up the wrong thing. But you went to the gym and lifted weights, right? They were on the ground, and then they weren't. Requirements met?
That would be a good analogy if going to school was anything like going to the gym. You sound like one of those old teachers that said “You won’t have a calculator in your pocket the rest of your life.”
Except it is a lot like going to the gym. Most people , on most tasks, only get better when they practice it.
I guarantee you that people who actually write essays with their brain will perform better at a lot of brain tasks than someone who just uses an LLM. You have to exercise those skills.
I’m not disagreeing with you on that. You are missing the point. AI is here to stay and the sooner we accept that, the better off our school system will be.
I am not arguing that using AI makes us smarter. What I’m saying is the only reason people go to school is to make money at their future career. Every company needs an AI specialist right now and instead of working with or around that, schools are trying to outright ban it. If they don’t want people to use it, stop assigning tasks that AI excels at.
This is capitalist nightmare talk. This is not the only reason people go to school.
Also, even if the tools were good at writing original essays (questionable), people still need to learn how to do it. Even with calculators you spend a lot of time in elementary school learning how to do math without tools.
School is like going to the gym for your brain. In the same way that using a calculator for everything makes you worse at math using chatgpt to read and write your assignments makes you worse at those things than you would be if you did it yourself.
I'd say it doesn't make you worse, but instead you're not improving. But your point still stands.
Worse than you would be if you practiced and learned the fundamentals rather than have a machine do it all for you.