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polarassassin t1_j6c8v2c wrote

Reply to comment by TunaOnWytNoCrust in 'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy by TheDoctorOf1977

this is pretty much what chat gpt does for you and i hate that everyone is amazed

its like having someone that knows how to properly use a search engine find and summarize what you ask and it fails at that too

its given me wrong answers for things ive asked and when i tell it its wrong it just doubles down because it does not understand fact vs opinion it just gives you the most relevant data it has and says "that's the answer you want"

at least when i search for things myself i can omit results from certain websites and im lucky enough to know i need to check against multiple sources to validate what im reading

most of the people amazed and "abusing" chat gpt think its a futuristic and magical tool when really its pretty simple and incredibly dumb in its current state

it is not a calculator math is a very straight forward language where you have a right answer and many methods in your toolset to arrive at them and generally equations are structured in specific ways and so are the answers to them

other things like writing essays is a lot more nuanced and its very obvious when its "in your own words" or not especially to someone like a teacher who spends hours and hours out of the years analyzing your vocabulary and writing style

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Marshall_Lawson t1_j6igyx8 wrote

> when i tell it its wrong it just doubles down because it does not understand fact vs opinion it just gives you the most relevant data it has and says "that's the answer you want"

In my experience, it apologizes for the mistake, and then when you ask to update (rewrite) the product incorporating the new information, it's even odds whether it will make the desired change, ignore it completely, or make a new different mistake.

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