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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

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323 points timbilt | 2 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.513s | source
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starik36 ◴[13 Nov 24 20:43 UTC] No.42129788[source]▶
This is nice, but it's not at all how students use ChatGPT (anecdotal based on my kid and her friends who are at the uni right now).

The way they actually use is to get ChatGPT to generate ALL their homework and submit that. And sometimes take home exams too. And the weird thing is that some professors are perfectly cool with it.

I am starting to question whether the cost of going to a place of higher learning is worth it.

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grugagag ◴[13 Nov 24 20:52 UTC] No.42129882[source]▶
Why do they get homework then? I don’t expect the professors are willing to go over and correct autogenerated LLM homework. The purpose of homework is to apply and cement knowledge. In some cases homework is so excessive that students find ways to cheat. If homework is reasonable, students can just do it and bypass LLMs altogether (at least for the purpose of the homework).
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1. ufo ◴[13 Nov 24 22:49 UTC] No.42131079[source]▶
As a professor it's frustrating. We want to give homework feedback for the students that actually put the work in, but we know that half the submissions are plagiarized from chatgpt, which is a waste of both their and my time.
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