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How ChatGPT spoiled my semester (2024)
Every semester, I see a bit more ChatGPT being used in classes. This semester, the most obvious occurrences are in my Engineering Psychology classes.
I don’t have a problem with taking inspiration from ChatGPT for assignments, I just think that you should at least evaluate and understand what it’s saying before dumping its output onto your collaborators. Repeatedly in these Engineering Psychology classes — which seem uniquely bullshitable with LLMs — I find myself buried in clearly ChatGPT’d slop produced by my groupmates. But I have no motivation to wade through the river of cheap verbiage and rewrite parts of the project while my groupmates stand on the banks and watch.
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