this is just teachers telling you not to use wikipedia all over again. give it a few years
@allgarbled i had a teacher in the very early 90's who wouldn't let me write my school essays on a computer because "handwriting is going to be so important as an adult" pretty sure I was the only kid in the school with a computer and printer
@allgarbled I saw this on tiktok the week chatgpt launched. most kids are using it, some of gen z gets it, almost none of the teachers get it
@allgarbled AI forces us to think critically about what it is we are trying to teach. Kids have been doing mechanical Turk versions of AI (spamming flash cards at yourself and spitting out good sounding shit) since homework was a thing. What they’re missing in both cases is critical thinking
@allgarbled "You need to learn to write essays, because you won't always have an essay-writing imprisoned intelligence agent in your pocket!"
@allgarbled "but how are you going to trust the collective knowledge base of the entire world????"
@allgarbled A bit different IMO. Wikipedia simply provides you with the information, it is your task to extract the relevant parts and synthesize them into a coherent narrative that supports the argument you wan to make in your essay. Doing this teaches you to think. ChatGPT does it all.