Re:Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm
by admissionsguy on Sunday March 17, 2024 @08:02AM
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Students at universities do that now. And they get passed. It exposes the whole charade that much of the higher education has become.
The idea behind writing a lot has been that it forces students to think systematically and thereby learn. But they are not typically interested in that, they just need a diploma in order to get a job. Before computers they were copying books verbatim and since plagiarism software they paraphrase books. And now chatgpt removes the middle man - the student. It doesn’t make much sense either way. The source of the problem is really the conflation of higher learning with vocational training.
The idea behind writing a lot has been that it forces students to think systematically and thereby learn. But they are not typically interested in that, they just need a diploma in order to get a job. Before computers they were copying books verbatim and since plagiarism software they paraphrase books. And now chatgpt removes the middle man - the student. It doesn’t make much sense either way. The source of the problem is really the conflation of higher learning with vocational training.