‘But there is a difference between recognising AI use and proving its use. So I tried an experiment. … I received 122 paper submissions. Of those, the Trojan horse easily identified 33 AI-generated papers. I sent these stats to all the students and gave them the opportunity to admit to using AI before they were locked into failing the class. Another 14 outed themselves. In other words, nearly 39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI.‘
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You pay to go to college. Then essentially do the equivalent of lighting that money on fire by not engaging with the product/services you just purchased.
In America you go to college at 18. It’s hard to have perspective. I’m almost 40 and reflecting on how powerful my degree was, because of how it taught me to think.
Even when I had teachers tell me this to my face at 18 I didn’t understand it.
Well yeah, I was the same because at 18 I didn’t understand how to think yet. Also because I hadn’t experienced those who never learned. At 31 I cherish the education I tried to avoid in my teens.
I went to college at 18. I wasn’t ready for it. I floundered for a few years, gaining no valueble life skills nor experiences, then dropped out and moved across the state and starting working and being an adult. Through that process I got to where I could appreciate college, understand what these amounts of money that are being talked about, that I’m spending in my daily life actually are worth so when I went back to college a few years later I could truly appreciate both the opportunities it presented to me, and how my life was being impacted. I’ve literally trippled my income from just a $20k (before financial aid) two year degree just a few years after graduation.
When your high school is just a conveyer belt into college, you don’t appreciate college, it’s just another school, and you just have to work through the classes finding the paths of least resistance between where you are now and the final goal of graduation. You don’t get to understand what college is about, you don’t get to understand how incredibly unique the time you spend in college is compared to the rest of your life, how this is the only time in your life when your focus is studying, learning and to gain as many skills and experiences and friends and contacts as you can.
I kinda forgot where I was going with this but it adds to the discussion to I’m going with it
Yes and no. You pay for a college to recognize your competency and say it to the world. That’s why so many students use AI
You pay a bad college to recognize your competency.
A good college teaches you how to reach beyond what they teach you.
This. While I do agree that college is largely you proving to others you can learn a lot of something(s) and commit to something(s) in the long run, college can just be a purchased vessel to some.
That’s akin to getting a driver’s license to prove you can drive - but not sitting behind the wheel a single time, and paying someone else to do your test.
No skills learned, nothing gained beyond a piece of paper.
Students might think they’re being slick by pushing all the work to AI during their degree, but their new boss in the real world will quickly recognize that they do not have the skills they should have according to their certification and say bye-bye during their probation period.
driver license actually has a use, its a requirement to drive. its more akin to have certification for different professions, rather than the degree.
There’s no competency to recognize if you’re using AI instead of processing the material yourself. Only a scam that swings both ways.
How many pay for college because they want to learn vs because it’s a requirement?
I also skip through bullshit i dont care about but am required to do.
I went to college because I wanted to learn new things. And I did.
Happy for you 🥹