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Re:AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating by cthor on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:14PM (#34059770)
School essays and actual essays aren't even the same thing.[0] It sounds like a more didactic use of these kids time would be arguing on forums about their favorite anime.

[0]: http://paulgraham.com/essay.html

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Re:AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating by tkgally on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:47PM (#34060499)
> School essays and actual essays aren't even the same thing.

Yes. And one interesting thing about ChatGPT is that, when asked to write an essay about a topic, it defaults to the standard introduction-body-conclusion organization of a school essay assignment [1]. Since its training data must have included texts organized in many other ways, I wonder if it was tweaked to default to the school-essay format.

[1] https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/defaultessay.html

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