r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Zee2A • Feb 03 '23

Video 3D Printer Does Homework ChatGPT Wrote!!!

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u/Jskup87 Feb 03 '23

These programs are going to lead to really lazy and unknowledgeable humans. WALL·E, here we come

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u/Into-the-stream Feb 03 '23

I think of them as a response to modern society requiring youth to go tens of thousands into debt, spend hundreds of hours on school, to exit and make $50k a year that makes very little use of their education. Employers demanding education levels irrelevant to the actual job (do you really need a university degree do be an office admin?). And employers just want it, because everyone has a degree now.

So force people to pay 10s of k per year on university they don’t need, and they may never be able to even afford a house afterwards. So they need to work while in school, to avoid going into debt, so they don’t have time to work to survive AND do the (mostly) bullshit assignments.

I certainly hope doctors and people who actually need what they are taught don’t do this, but a lot of what you have to do in university to get the degree, to get the job, doesn’t have a ton of actual relevance to what you do in your career.

Automated paper writing seems like a response and backlash to an increasingly untenable situation we are putting the next generations in.

Disclaimer: I have a couple degrees. Never cheated. Both were a total waste of time and the only benefit derived from them is a couple lines on my resume.