"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
True story: I once made up an entire book during recess because I forgot the assignment. The teacher probably was aware but gave good grades because I was the only one who kept on going instead of summarising the book in under a minute.
In other words no, we don't need ai.
My daughter got nearly mobbed by her co-students for "not telling which AI she used for writing her papers". Her papers were regularly applauded for her good writing. She hates AI with a vengeance and wrote all her papers on her own. She is just good at thiski'd of thing.
5 pages? I wish it were that easy...
Buddy we actually wrote them with pen and paper
On the bus on the way to school when it was due in the first period.
I did that once for some big assignment. I got a B and a "you can do better" from the teacher.
Great job!
I'm actually teaching some students who honest to God are in their early teens and LITERALLY cannot string two sentences together. I never want to hear anybody tell me about how writing assignments were a waste of time again, because I can PERSONALLY vouch that if you don't practice it, you literally cannot do it at all.
Skim the book, read a couple reviews online, find a couple random quotes from the book, then write a 10 page comparative essay discussing how the book relates to American exceptionalism and do it again next week.
Me, taking the state exam. Had Crime and punishment as the topic. I read maybe at best a third of it a few years before the exam and remembered basically nothing. The book bored me to death and I just couldn't get through it (like most monthly book assignments we had). Bullshitted my way through it. Got a B. I genuinely couldn't believe it, lol.
And writing it all up 6 hours before the deadline. I do not miss that burnout...
I wrote them by hand, in cursive. But not before I made a harvard outline.
But seriously if anyone out there is actually trying to write an essay, the harvard outline model is legit for organizing and setting up.
This is the first time I've ever heard this had a name.
Huh, I was taught the Cornell outline method. I didn't know there was competition!
You want me to believe J.R.R Tolkien generated a whole new series and setting without AI?
Ah yeah the classics of watching a movie assuming it's the same as the book
Accidentally write the name of an actor instead of their character in the essay...
"WHO THE FUCK IS TOM BOMBADIL?"
I mean, that's still a pretty decent question after reading the book...
Fair enough
I always read the book, the book was good. But it's 19 years since I left highschool and I still don't understand the rules about essays.. Write about the thing but also don't write about the thing.
My highest mark for an essay was 4/10 My highest mark for fictional story writing is 19/20.
Please don't reply to me telling me how to write essays, it's nonsense and every person who thinks it's important are fucking insane..
No seriously if you reply to me to tell me how to write an essay in going to ignore you... Essay writing is for people who don't have any personality except hating the world.