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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Several friends are into AI and using it to write. They don't understand AI makes up references and is based on people's existing ideas and writing.

[b]The way some talk about AI sounds cult-like.[/b] Meanwhile, they are contributing to something that is designed to make money from corporations that want to replace their workers with AI.

Anyone else feel this way?[/quote]

Imagine going back to 2010, and listening to friends rave about these new “smart phones” and how, in cult-like terms, they claimed:

- smart phones will everyone’s lives

They were right.  Everyone has a “smart phone” (we don’t even call them that anymore).  Phones have transformed lives.  They have altered our kids’ childhood (generally not for the better).

AI is going to change your life, OP.  You can try to fight it, OP.

But you won’t stop the changes about to happen.[/quote]

There's a reason that minimalist or dumbphones are getting more and more popular.  Phones are bad for us.

AI is also bad for us, individually and collectively.  I am happy to see how quickly it has spread so that everyone can quickly see how awful AI is, for just about every task.  Some people excuse the badness but everyone sees it.

And soon we will turn a corner.  Schools are going back to bluebooks for tests and paper and pencil for assignments.  Chromebooks/laptops in class = AI and distraction, maybe not in that order.  Glad to see those are going away too.[/quote]

I had lunch with two professors. They are going back to bluebooks and in-class written essays. I just suggested this to another professor I know. Otherwise, the students turn in bad ChatGPT mishmash and fail out of the class or even flunk out of school for breaking the honor code.

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