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rynlingI Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me stupider - it's impressive, but not actually suitable for anything more than churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be.
Same. I had my fun with ChatGPT before deciding it's functionally useless.
An executive at an institution that provides students with important credentials, used to verify suitability for potentially lifesaving work and immigration law, asked me if I could detect students cheating. I was going to say "No, probably not"... but I had a suspicion, so I instead said "I might be able to, but I'd estimate that upwards of 50% of the students are currently cheating which would have some serious impacts on the bottom line as we'd have to suspend them. Should I still investigate?" We haven't spoken about it since.
This is where I'm at right now. I have regressed to assigning handwritten quizzes and live in-class presentations, because well upwards of 50% (and probably close to 80%) of students will automatically default to using ChatGPT even when explicitly warned not to. And there's nothing to stop them, because none of us has the energy or time on this earth to hold them accountable. Most universities are already failing financially, and they're just going to kick students out for cheating? Not happening. It sucks and I hate it.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me stupider - it's impressive, but not actually suitable for anything more than churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be.
Same. I had my fun with ChatGPT before deciding it's functionally useless.
An executive at an institution that provides students with important credentials, used to verify suitability for potentially lifesaving work and immigration law, asked me if I could detect students cheating. I was going to say "No, probably not"... but I had a suspicion, so I instead said "I might be able to, but I'd estimate that upwards of 50% of the students are currently cheating which would have some serious impacts on the bottom line as we'd have to suspend them. Should I still investigate?" We haven't spoken about it since.
This is where I'm at right now. I have regressed to assigning handwritten quizzes and live in-class presentations, because well upwards of 50% (and probably close to 80%) of students will automatically default to using ChatGPT even when explicitly warned not to. And there's nothing to stop them, because none of us has the energy or time on this earth to hold them accountable. Most universities are already failing financially, and they're just going to kick students out for cheating? Not happening. It sucks and I hate it.
