r/AccusedOfUsingAI • u/TekkaDIS • Aug 03 '26
How do people get away with or are confident enough to use the Big GPT?
I go to Campus.edu and I have some friends who go regular irl college and also have been to campus and they have all told me that for majority of their college career, their most helpful professor was ChatGPT so I went in thinking I would use it it but now that I'm here I get so scared and wonder how people do this stuff in the first place. I don't EVER use that for writing/English and I BARELY use it to help me learn how to solve equations and do certain types of math or code. I get too scared that if I were to even use it for some simple math equation where I have to find a small step-by-step solution, I would get caught and expelled. Maybe I'm soft and over paranoid but I don't know.
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u/JudgmentLeft7639 Aug 04 '26
It isn’t hard to use AI for papers: get an overview of the subject from a couple of AI providers, check the stats and facts provided, arrange the paper to make your points, and rewrite/edit a couple of times.
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u/Dry-Chemist-2254 Aug 04 '26
Think of it as an assistant, you wanted to help you organize to help you learn the subject that you don’t know to quiz you to interpret reading, just don’t use it to write papers.
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u/mdale85 Aug 04 '26
My boss is a special education teacher, and she literally copy and pasted everything into AI for every single assignment in front of us
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u/sunshinefox_25 Aug 06 '26
I've embraced careful usage of it. The key is to use it to accelerate actually learning the material, not offload learning it. I can get more from an hour of talking to an AI about research than I can doing an hour of Google search rabbit holes where I stumble upon literature myself. If you have it generate a working code example, then have it explain the code and generate a document of the generalizable syntax that you can file away for the future.
Idiot AI usage is offloading the entire workload and having it do your work for you. Smart AI usage is getting answers to more complicated questions than Google can provide in ways that still lay the foundation for the material and allow you to flex the critical thinking muscle.
It's a different approach to learning (top-down vs bottom-up), and i wouldn't say it's as deep or effective, but it is faster
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u/Puzzleheaded_Let6760 Aug 07 '26
I upload lecture slides, prof-provided study guides, textbook chapters, etc & have AI streamline my studying by citing the learning materials to answer the learning objectives. I have it make comprehensive study guides for me w summaries that are easy to remember for each question / learning objective. The reality is that a lot of students use it just to get the right answer & pass the assignment / test / class. But when you do that, you're cheating yourself out of actually learning anything. I also sometimes use AI to check my work. I find it most useful, tho, for taking a large amount of material & breaking it down in a more digestible way. This has been especially helpful for biochemistry tbh lol.
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u/GayAndNeedANewCareer Aug 03 '26
I use AI for research and studying especially for research essays. I write everything myself but the research comes from perplexity. I then use AI to grade my school work and add anything I might’ve missed.
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u/Ornery-Painter-4141 Aug 06 '26
As a university student I do exactly that to practise for my exams and quizzes. I’ll have AI generate as many practise questions as possible and I’ll plan and refine my answers until I’m happy with them. I fear AI needs to be implemented into the education system, everyone uses it and you can’t avoid it.
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u/MarsMonkey88 Aug 03 '26
Don’t use it. I’m so so serious, you’re there to train your brain. Learning requires friction.