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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday May 16, 2026 @10:30AM (#48160589)
I think this overlooks the potency and scarcity of 1:1 time with the teacher. If you've only got maybe a few minutes of that in an average schoolday there's a huge difference between whether or not you've talked it through with an AI before trying the question out on the teacher.

They're wrong sometimes, but usually in verifiable ways. And they don't seem to know the difference between medicine and bioterrorism, so often they refuse. But these limitations are worth tolerating when the alternative is that our specialists in topic X are bogged down by questions about topic Y to the point where X isn't getting taught.

Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by kelvinjps10 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @10:47AM (#48160729)
And now they'll have less time because they will be bombarded with slop to no end.
Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by __MatrixMan__ on Saturday May 16, 2026 @02:30PM (#48162557)
Obviously generating your homework is a bad idea, and maybe assigning homework that can be generated is a bad idea. But neither of those are relevant to the problem I'm talking about which is about due diligence prior to asking for somebody's extended attention.

Whether you're in class or at work, it's just courteous to ask an AI first.