subtoot, schools
"Why would you use LLMs to do your homework instead of learning things??"
...because students are coerced into doing homework they never asked for and they have been taught for a decade+ that grades are the only thing that matters, and so they have no real choice but to optimize their participation in this bizarre social dance of pretending to learn things to participate in society?
If only people had been warning for decades that common schooling methods are inefficient and encouraging the wrong things. If only.
subtoot, schools, LLMs
@joepie91 @mynameistillian I have no shame in admitting that I have ChatGPT write essays for me sometimes (I have it set to mimic my usual writing style and all) because of the bullshit topics they shove down our throats.
Why do they want me to write essays about 19th-century Russian literature in a STEM curriculum...
@joepie91 Yeah I grew up before LLMs and doing my own homework didn't result in me learning things anyway!
subtoot, schools
@joepie91 I definitely would have done that had LLMs been a thing back then. remember having to write homework on stuff I had no interest in and no need in ever knowing ("write an essay on some fashion designer I can't even remember the name of").
subtoot, schools, LLMs
Like, I get it, LLMs are terrible and all, and you won't find me disagreeing there, but "our sacred homework standards!" is extremely *not* the hill to be dying on there