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   Chloé Azencott (cazencott@lipn.info)'s status on Friday, 09-May-2025 23:28:41 JST Chloé Azencott

   I'm so fed up* with articles about the widespread use of LLM chatbots by university students that only interview students who use them intensively and teachers who have no idea how to encourage students to think by themselves.

   Aren't there any stories out there of students who refuse to use them because they realize how detrimental to learning this can be (I'm less interested in those who refuse out of ethical/environmental/geopolitical concerns, not that those aren't valid) or of educators who have found how to effectively encourage students to do their own work, because the point is not the final product but the process?

   (Yeah, my Introduction to Data Science course is starting in a few weeks and I'm not looking forward to the time we're going to waste on grading projects written by an algorithm.)

   * by which I mean, excessively upset and having difficulty sleeping at night. The despair they induce has even been seeping into some of my dreams.

   • Rich Felker and Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     Caro Flores Hine (ushcala@mastodon.cr)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 11:57:06 JST Caro Flores Hine

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     @cazencott Related: New Duke study says workers judge others for AI use—and hide its use, fearing stigma.
     https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 11:58:24 JST Rich Felker

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     • Caro Flores Hine

     @cazencott @ushcala I suspect this is the majority attitude and the media embedded with tech industry douchbros is just gaslighting us with a barrage of narratives that everybody's doing it.

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     Chloé Azencott (cazencott@lipn.info)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 11:58:25 JST Chloé Azencott

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     • Caro Flores Hine

     @ushcala oooh, that's interesting, I didn't realize that was a thing.