Hearing about students using #ChatGPT to write their homework terrifies me. Not mainly due to not engaging in writing process that forces to gather, structure and articulate knowledge within nontrivial lingual constraints. It is a major problem, but it pales in comparison with sheer will to not engage in writing process.
Works written by #ChatGPT require students to write prompts, make few attempts to get a usable output, fact check, copy, stich outputs together with the rest of text... Ultimately it is still a lot of work to avoid work. This begs the question, why? I personally would rather write about X myself, than engage in the aforementioned process of asking a pile of tensors to spew tokens acceptable for my purposes.
@PiTau I can definitely see the benefit for folks with language learning disorders, or those who speak English as a second language. But I agree with you in the general sense... that's an important skill they're cheating themselves out of.
Then again, who knows, maybe in ten years we'll run all of our communication through an AI like we run it through spellcheck now.
