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  I'm so old we used blue books...little tiny booklets you wrote your essay answers in. Man, I remember sweating those essays!
context: If it exist someone will try to ruin it. >
  
  Please identify all the axes that belong to you in this photo before your comment will be posted >
  
  Can someone much more knowledgeable ELI5 why I shouldn't be terrified about the onslaught of AI created content that society is clearly not ready to handle or has that ship sailed? >
  
  It’s more like a search engine than an omniscient AI, but it bridges a gap that search engines did not - synthesizing information. It’s evolutionary but not revolutionary.
  A practiced bullshitter would simply google an essay prompt and begin copy-pasting across the results until they had a cobbled-together essay. That’s practically what ChatGPT is doing very well. >
  
  I fed an AI program the first Harry Potter book and told it to write another chapter. It didn't make a lot of sense. Grammar was a mess. Even fixing sentences, it had no structure and the plot didn't make sense. I wasn't impressed with AI writing. It doesn't have a ultimate purpose for writing like a writer would.
  The new AI that does images is interesting since you can say "South Africa as a villain" or "Ronald McDonald in impressionist style". Maybe you could say "Story on inequality set in 1930 mid-America" and get something that has an underlying message like "Grapes of Wrath". I was using a simple python AI front end. >
  
  The ai is also a confident liar. Which is very on the nose. It will spit out wrong answers and defend them with arguments backed by fake sources. Often backed by fake but plausible links like www.bbc.com/relevantarticletitle 
  It's basically googling a high schooler to bullshit your paper. >
  
  So soon were going to get AI telling us the Earth is flat? >
  
  As soon as it ingests enough flat earther crap from its data center. >
  
  Chat GPT tell me about pizza...
  Goes on a massive rant about how it was co-opted into a worldwide pedophilia front, links to Marjorie Taylor Green. 
  Calls you a sheep when you try and correct it.
  Eventually devolves into making baa'ing noise at you and takes over your computer speakers to do the same. >
  
  Entire evening of generating fake Magic cards ruined by MTG's face somehow being dumped into the algorithm. >
  
  Well indeed someone who thinks on their own  has done their work on their own wouldn't get the desired or worthy appreciation as compared to the person who didn't get take any efforts but just copied it from somewhere . >
  
  Professor here. After seeing rampant cheating during Covid on remote exams I'm back to giving timed, proctored, in person, pen and paper exams. >
  
  I think I read a study on how writing things down physically makes you much more likely to remember the content you're studying than typing it up, so there is a case for going back to Pen and paper everything >
  
  Yeah I have a writing tablet (SuperNote A5X) and using it over just typing all my notes in OneNote has been huge for my ability to learn what I am taking notes on. OneNote has the perks of being able to Ctrl+F all text which is great but I end up mindlessly typing notes whereas I have to begrudgingly pay attention when writing notes. >
  
  Well it is one of the perks of Ai and technology stuff. ...it's nice if it's helping you this way >
  
  I meant a drawing tablet like this. Unrelated to any AI. >
  
  That OCR functionality (Ctrl+F'ing stuff you hand wrote) is an AI, Object Character Recognition is the same pattern as these writing bots. But its older, more stable, less resource intensive >
  
  Oh sorry I didn't mean Ctrl+F searching for handwriting, I can't do that on my drawing tablet. I meant that was a good benefit for using OneNote being able to Ctrl+F search for typed notes, but I still prefer my handwritten notes which I can't search on this tablet. >
  
  What is an exam in this context? Take home, in class, both? >
  
  Presumably in class.  At home, this wouldn't prevent anything. >
  
  That's still weird though. There are really essay exams that take place with a screen that is connected to the internet?