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Wait until you see the survey of their teachers.

Love it or hate it (I hate it) … humanity entered a new era with this shit. It’s everywhere and most want it. Like plastic or nuclear radiation or fire or metal work … all the things that mark a point in time in the geological record … AI created content now marks the beginning of this era.

It may well simply mark the beginning of the 3rd Millennium. The 1900s are now dead and we’re on new shores.

I’m still disturbed by how little people think about ethically and structurally. All I’m seeing is consumption and tech hype.

All the teens I work this openly admit to doing this.

I'm also in college right now and there was this international student I was in class with last semester who straight up could not speak English, and I saw him using AI all the time. Last day of class he did a presentation that was totally incoherent cuz it was clearly written by ChatGPT.

Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation

Spatial memory critically relies on the hippocampus and people who use these strategies have greater fMRI BOLD activity and greater grey matter in the hippocampus. Our findings suggest that people with greater GPS habits may rely less on their hippocampus for navigation, as they exhibit a reduced use of spatial memory strategies, reduced cognitive mapping abilities, reduced landmark encoding, and as they have more difficulty learning navigational information. This is consistent with a recent study by Spiers’ group, in which participants who were given instructions on where to turn at decision points while navigating in a film simulation, akin to using GPS, exhibited less fMRI BOLD activity in the hippocampus than when participants self-guided and had to make decisions unaided

I’m so stoked for that to happen to the prefrontal cortex in our ChatGPT society dude, it’s gonna be so rad

I went to a technical college recently, and I feel like pretty much everyone but me used chatGPT for every short answer or essay question. And not like... Bouncing back and forth (or bypassing industrial copyrights. idk why Australian Standards are paywalled), but literally just asking it and copying and pasting. And then watching multiple arguments between the class and the lecturers about how that's what they'd be doing in industry (rather than, say, which job not existing because management doesn't need to hire people to put things into chatGPT).

literacy rate is about to go below 50%

It must be much higher than that

I know people who have outsourced basic literacy to AI. Like they’re too lazy to actually read through the results page on google so they have ChatGPT summarize it for them. They won’t look for an actual recipe but ask ChatGPT to make one for them.

Americans hate thinking.

Of course. It's a widely available natural language prompt with an easily verifiable right answer. People use LLMs for homework because they are good at homework because it's easy training data

retvrn to 1 on 1 exams.

As far as the horrifying shit I’ve seen from LLMs. I have to let this slide so long as it’s not forced on anyone. Hell, Google’s AI crap would be a lot more tolerable if there was a third button right next to “I’m feeling lucky” that just said “Try Gemini today!”

Like if I can ask a specific question and have a concept explained to me. Cool! Now it’s just a matter of making that more environmentally friendly.

I think ChatGPT is a good tool for studying, similar to how saying things aloud/writing things out is a good tool for studying because it forces you to think, except with ChatGPT you can have a back and forth. Verifying the output for truth also seems like a good exercise for learning (as long as you don't use ChatGPT to verify itself)

The issue I see is you need to have some base of critical thinking skills and general knowledge to work from in order to get the most out of ChatGPT and I doubt most students are at that level. I don't even consider myself at that level. I assume the worst and students are just taking the output and rewording it.

If we collectively agree ChatGPT is here to stay, then maybe we ought to teach how to use it in a productive way that doesn't dumb us down. I know this isn't a well-defined thing though but probably it would be worth researching. We live under capitalism though so the odds of that happening are probably next to none, but I'm thinking about what we should do if ChatGPT existed under a different system.

I don’t see any issue with using it at all as a tool to help studying, the problem is when students just have it do their homework for them.

The future of the developed world isn’t looking good. Perhaps their downfall really will be their own undoing. Now hopefully the developing world doesn’t fall into the usual trend of aping whatever the developed world is doing and import this as well.

tbh this is one of those instances im not too worried. I fucking hated homework more than anything as a kid, and did basically whatever i could to avoid it, i would calculate how many assignments i could skip or leave half undone etc. while still maintaining an A. honestly not sure if i would have even used chatgpt because it would have meant copying the answers down lol. also as a sidenote i think thats why math always used to be my favorite class, the homework would only be worth 10% of the grade so i could basically ignore them and just do a few here and there during class and be good lol

all that to say i think homework 99% of the time is very dumb and useless and im glad kids are using the latest and greatest tech to get around doing it lol. if you want kids to learn discipline or smthing like that it should be part of an extracurricular like sports or music or something

26% is actually reassuring. Realistically it means a few dumbasses will come off as smart until they reach a state of life that requires critical thinking but otherwise this is part of the course of all new technologies (ecological catastrophe aside)