• Zron@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    ChatGPT is a tool that is used for cheating.

    The point of writing papers for school is to evaluate a person’s ability to convey information in writing.

    If you’re using a tool to generate large parts of the paper, the teacher is no longer evaluating you, they’re evaluating chatGPT. That’s dishonest in the student’s part, and circumventing the whole point of the assignment.

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      The point of writing papers for school is to evaluate a person’s ability to convey information in writing.

      Computers are a fundamental part of that process in modern times.

      If you’re using a tool to generate large parts of the paper

      Like spell check? Or grammar check?

      … the teacher is no longer evaluating you, in an artificial context

      circumventing the whole point of the assignment.

      Assuming the point is how well someone conveys information, then wouldn’t many people better be better at conveying info by using machines as much as reasonable? Why should they be punished for this? Or forced to pretend that they’re not using machines their whole lives?