my students use ChatGPT to solve programming exercises... they will surely get a very bad grade!

cheaters everywhere. they will eventually realize their mistake

Find that picture with man saying "Congratulations, you played yourself." and print a few copies. They're in for surprise! 😆

I like the atmosphere of schools but I wish they would stop trying to twist the world to resemble the one the teachers grew up in.

A good exam can only be cheated with external human help.

@We3D or become managers.

Do they also use calculators in math class?

There’s always the codex API…. 🤭

Just cross reference and find yourself learning the direct way, but unnecessarily better…. By opinion(the better part)

They might get a bad grade - but they also learn a very important skill actually needed for their future jobs.

I used to teach once. And I knew they pay someone to code for them. So once they submit their code, I put in some errors and have them fix it in realtime. Or have it explain their work to the class. Fun times.

@fruitfcker see that's smart, because it puts them in a position to be knowledgeable about the concept, not just memorizing. Good job

Teach better. No more rote memorization and boring coding classes. Humans have always used the tools that create solutions with the least resistance. Allow them to use ChatGPT but build into your teaching a method of having the students demonstrate the knowledge of what ChatGPT helps them with. I personally use it as a hint engine when I get stuck and can’t think of “the next thing to do”. But then I endeavor to try to understand what ChatGPT suggested and whether that’s really the best approach.

In defense of this complaint, it's fucking hard to design a task that ChatGPT can't be used for, and it's most likely not a lasting solution seeing how many new tasks AI can do every month. Setting arbitrary constraints to terminally disconnect the exam from real-world challenges is obviously not a solution, but annoyance is entirely justified.

@lorentz Of course it is fucking hard. Always has been. It's just that teachers in the past collectively botched their job ultra hard by mostly training and testing information retention. Cheat sheets aren't exactly a new invention and they still often work pretty well.

AI (for now) mostly makes searching easy. A good teacher would actually embrace not having to teach boring facts but being able to concentrate on concepts and how to get them actually into their students' heads. They would want students to also use AI for research - and would teach how to check the results.

AI will not go away and it will not become less useful as a tool. Teachers have to accept that. They have to bite the bullet and finally stop skipping the hard part of their job. Not sure, whether AI can already help them too. But it surely will be able to in the future...

P.S.: This answer definitely hasn't been influenced by Roko's basilisk.