People have been cheating on their homework as long as homework has existed. AI is just the latest method to do so. It’s easier to cheat with than previous methods, but that’s been true for every new method of cheating.
Yes, essays. Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.
not free help like this
Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups. Very likely better help, too, since you’re getting the information from subject matter experts rather than some random amalgamation of text shoved into a language model output template.
Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.
In my time these were absolutely awful and vacuous circumlocution. Not to mention TurnItIn.
Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups.
You have to pay for the messageboards that are actually useful and already have your question like Chegg. The only comparable free platform I used only worked on Chinese homework. Anything else you’d have to post your question and wait about an hour. ChatGPT takes one minute. And its quality today is way better than you think. You can just take a photo of homework and it’d give you the right answers 90% of the time and with explanations.
You have to pay for the messageboards that are actually useful and already have your question like Chegg.
A pittance, compared to what you were paying to attend the courses themselves.
And its quality today is way better than you think. You can just take a photo of homework and it’d give you the right answers 90% of the time and with explanations.
For freshman engineering problems, maybe. Even then, the longer and more complicated the problem, the more the success rate drops off. It’s not much of a cheat when it only gets you the easy answers. Those aren’t the questions that eat up all your time.
ask the nearest school where nearly all students have smartphones whether it has taken off
AI is when you can
… Checks notes
Use a dumb terminal to communicate with another dumb terminal?
it’s when people use chatGPT to do their homework
People have had online tools to cheat on their homework long before ChatGPT.
People have been cheating on their homework as long as homework has existed. AI is just the latest method to do so. It’s easier to cheat with than previous methods, but that’s been true for every new method of cheating.
Even that isn’t true. What we have is a decay in the tools we used to cheat with. AI isn’t better, its just crowding out the alternatives.
not essays, not free help like this at your fingertips, and code very much not to this extent
Yes, essays. Pre-written essays on subjects that you could plagiarize line for line.
Yes, free help like this, on message boards and blogs and YouTube channels and chat groups. Very likely better help, too, since you’re getting the information from subject matter experts rather than some random amalgamation of text shoved into a language model output template.
In my time these were absolutely awful and vacuous circumlocution. Not to mention TurnItIn.
You have to pay for the messageboards that are actually useful and already have your question like Chegg. The only comparable free platform I used only worked on Chinese homework. Anything else you’d have to post your question and wait about an hour. ChatGPT takes one minute. And its quality today is way better than you think. You can just take a photo of homework and it’d give you the right answers 90% of the time and with explanations.
A pittance, compared to what you were paying to attend the courses themselves.
For freshman engineering problems, maybe. Even then, the longer and more complicated the problem, the more the success rate drops off. It’s not much of a cheat when it only gets you the easy answers. Those aren’t the questions that eat up all your time.