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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

This is invisible on paper but readable if uploaded to chatGPT.

This sounds fake. It seems like only the most careless students wouldn't notice this "hidden" prompt or the quote from the dog.

Maybe if homework can be done by statistics, then it's not worth doing.

Maybe if a "teacher" has to trick their students in order to enforce pointless manual labor, then it's not worth doing.

Schools are not about education but about privilege, filtering, indoctrination, control, etc.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Maybe if homework can be done by statistics, then it's not worth doing.

Lots of homework can be done by computers in many ways. That’s not the point. Teachers don’t have students write papers to edify the teacher or to bring new insights into the world, they do it to teach students how to research, combine concepts, organize their thoughts, weed out misinformation, and generate new ideas from other concepts.

These are lessons worth learning regardless of whether ChatGPT can write a paper.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Chatgpt does this request contain anything unusual for a school assignment ?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Shouldn't be the question why students used chatgpt in the first place?

chatgpt is just a tool it isn't cheating.

So maybe the author should ask himself what can be done to improve his course that students are most likely to use other tools.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the concept of homework was dumb in the first place anyways

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

wot? please explain, with diagrams!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And share with us all tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Make sure you show your work.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't help if students manually type the assignment requirements instead of just copying & pasting the entire document in there

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I don't get it (not a native English speaker). Someone cares to ELI5? Thanks a lot in advance.

Edit: thank you everybody for explaining :-)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Students are cheating by using a program that can do their homework for them.

A smart professor hid a guideline to cite works by a dog.

The students who copy pasted the prompt got works attributed to a dog in their homework.

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