Older sister tells mom her14-year-old brother is using ChatGPT to do his French homework while mom spends money on a tutor: ‘He hasn’t spoken to me in a week.’

She’s trying to help him out because he won’t help himself.  Some kids never cheat in school. They are told from a young age that cheating is not only forbidden but also a particularly heinous offense, and they internalize that for all of their years of education. Other kids try to cheat, but get caught, …
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Older sister tells mom her 14-year-old brother is using ChatGPT to do his French homework while mom spends money on a tutor: ‘He hasn’t spoken to me in a week.’

She’s trying to help him out because he won’t help himself.  Some kids never cheat in school. They are told from a young age that cheating is not only forbidden but also a particularly heinous offense, and they internalize that for all of their years of education. Other kids try to cheat, but get caught, …
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Employee quits job because ChatGPT told her that her business idea will make her a millionaire by 2028: ‘ChatGPT told me I would win the lottery by 25 after I asked it enough questions.’

Does she know she has 30 minutes? It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur, even if they don’t really have the skills to do so. From a mission standpoint, it seems like it’d be so much more fulfilling to work on a mission that you’re leading, rather than one that your boss is …
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59-year-old wins councilwoman position using AI-generated photo in her campaign, making her look 30 years younger: ‘When I’m out with my son, people think I’m his girlfriend.’

Did she think that nobody was ever going to find out that she doesn’t look like that?  The term «AI-Psychosis» has become a part of our everyday vocabulary, but what exactly does it mean? AI-Psychosis is not a clinical diagnosis, but an identifiable phenomenon where the use of AI has increased psychotic symptoms. Thinking that …
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Over convenience is hindering us and ‘Friction-Maxxing’ can help us add useful difficulty back into our lives

Friction doesn’t sound like a good thing. It’s something that slows you down. We have friction with a friend when we disagree about where we want to go to dinner. Swimmers aim to reduce friction so they can move faster through the water. User experience designers spend their careers trying to minimize friction in apps …
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Sports team member calls out friend for utilizing AI to write an entire memorial eulogy for someone close to their club, friend fails to see the moral issue: ‘[He] went on to say I was being disrespectful’

AI-generated images and texts are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-made digital and textual assets. As a writer, I am compelled to acknowledge that AI-generated content, in terms of both creative writing and personal writing, is treading the line of unethical. Aside from the fact that artificial intelligence will never match a human writer’s …
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Social Media Has Turned Into a Slop Factory, And I Hate That Nobody Cares

We have spent the past three years hearing that AI was going to revolutionize all of our lives, completely changing the trajectory of the future of each and every industry. While there is no doubt that AI has and will continue to bring positive changes to various aspects of our lives, it has yet to …
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Educated adults worry that ‘reading and writing on a normal level’ is becoming a thing of the past for Gen Alpha: ‘The literacy level has dropped so much in last ten years’

The whole goal of school is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The bare bones of knowledge. But now, according to some pundits on Twitter, some of that is starting to disappear. We all know that social media is dwindling our attention spans and the proliferation of user-friendly AI has made it easier to cheat, …
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Professor Gives Student a Zero on Their Essay, Claims There’s a 27% Chance Their Summary Paragraph Was Written With AI

I do not envy college students in a post-ChatGPT world. I was lucky to graduate from undergrad a few months before that went worldwide. I’m grateful I never had to sit through a professor begging the class not to use Artificial Intelligence to write an English paper.  Even though I empathize with professors and teachers …
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Lazy Professor Fails His Entire Class Because Chat GPT Said All of Their Essays Were Written With Chat GPT

Chat GPT has caused a lot of new problems in the classroom. If plagiarism was a problem before, it’s definitely a problem now. Luckily for teachers, Chat GPT isn’t the greatest at writing essays, so they can usually tell when it’s being used. If an essay says «As an AI tool, I cannot tell you …
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