ChatGPT and students

A rant by a professor posted on Reddit on his struggles with ChatGPT use among students.

I actually get excited when I find typos and grammatical errors in their writing now.

My constant struggle is how to convince them that getting an education in the humanities is not about regurgitating ideas/knowledge that already exist. It’s about generating new knowledge, striving for creative insights, and having thoughts that haven’t been had before. I don’t want you to learn facts. I want you to think. To notice. To question. To reconsider. To challenge. Students don’t yet get that ChatGPT only rearranges preexisting ideas, whether they are accurate or not.



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