Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Getting a lot of replies about "why doesn't she just do XYZ" as though the entirety of her job could be explaining the difference between "text box that lies" and "text box that tells you the truth*" to this kid, and not teaching several classes with their own topics and workloads. 8165651
Grandma Judy @libraryanna.bsky.social · 10/12/2024AI isn’t trained to find quality information from credible sources. Meta was forced on users. It can’t search FB or answer questions about it. Google AI summaries are often wrong, going with popularity. It’s more important than ever we start teaching information literacy in grade school. 020
Wendy Atlantic Canuck (she/her) @wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Yes. But seriously, she should have told him he had to check the source material, from the internet. He had to verify that it was a reliable source, and look up every citation. That’s where people fail on the internet. 100
Brian Ratliff @brierrat.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Back when I was going to school, the all-knowing lying machine was Wikipedia. So, take two, I guess. You can take the same text and replace “ChatGPT” with “Wikipedia” and you’d have the exact same conversation from 20 years ago. Now Wikipedia is god and LLMs are the liars. 210
Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 07/07/2024press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... this is good. Moving away from AI to other sources...press.uchicago.eduVerifiedAn indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds. The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump... 030
David Heslop @davidheslop.bsky.social · 13/12/2024My ai test is to ask ChatGPT to write a report on an esoteric bit of history where the only information on line is what I have written on the subject. It quotes back to me my research but adds in facts which I know to be untrue. So how can you trust anything produced on unfamiliar subjects. 060
Drew Melbourne @drewmelbourne.com · 07/07/2024Ask them to "search" for "Does ChatGPT hallucinate?" 190
Kartograferna @kartograferna.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A problem for sure, but... a "search bar" is surely worse? I haven't been able to find credible information on Google for years. Personally, I go for Wikipedia and then printed or primary sources, but students keep googling even when they have a textbook, and that's a bigger problem. 100
@nwsoftwareguy.bsky.social @nwsoftwareguy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I think this is more nuanced then people realize. Companies are pushing a product that is not quantifying things the same as a search engine. But even a search engine will have errors of 'how' it changes based on preference. Factual based answers though I completely agree this is dangerous/1 100
Daniel Joslyn @djoslyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I am anti-AI but I feel like the teacher could have said “here is the article on the Greek language on Wikipedia that remains actually correct” and then if the kid was wrong it at least wouldn’t be their fault. 110
Just randy @lezbro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Me trying to convince professors that gptchat is not going to get students straight As. It wrong a lot and even using it for work is like pulling teeth for the right information. 040
Billy Hynes Comics Enabler & Victim @billyhynes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024My 7yo asked “but how do I know that the internet is true?” And I was so happy. 0332
Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🇪🇺 @zoonie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I thank the various God's that my kids a) have a long-time nerd and a teacher as parents, and are old enough to have been innoculated against it already. My brother's kids are a lot younger. I fear I will be dull Aunty over Xmas as I explain it to them. 020
]|[nquisitor S. (Lexicanum) @inquisitors.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I actually recently saw a kid use Ch*tgpt for their homework on the evening news segment of public television. Not as a warning example, mind you, presented as totally normal... 020
Jamee Walters, MD (she/her) @jameew.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Yup. Extends into med school too. The amount of education we have to do on proper resources in residency is wild. Stuff we all knew in college and med school. 060
Ruby S. @rubyji.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I always tell people to test AI by asking it to write a bio about themself. Then the lies become quite obvious to the one expert on that subject. 0191
Yore @yore89.bsky.social · 10/12/2024This is extremely sad. As you said, this is not an incorrect book, a typo or a simplified version. It's a machine continuously generating garbage dressed as truth. 0131
Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 11/12/2024If by "grim" you mean "absolutely bloody horrifying" then yes, it's grim. JFC. That's grim. 090
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 07/07/2024And yet, people act stunned when I tell them that I teach a lot about technology in my religion class. 0201
Niall McAuley @niall-mcauley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024There is a chance that the current AI bubble will pop in 2025 and ChatGPT will go offline in the subsequent bankruptcies. Here's hoping. 101233
Tim Zee ⏳️ @threeninepress.bsky.social · 10/12/2024And there are bloggers/content creators using this to make 'new' content, too, which will be outside of the AI machine but still be false. So kids will go to Roman History blog and see that 'The Romans were actually frogs' because that's what the AI said to the copy+paste blogger. 030
E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 07/07/2024It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria, but instead we're just burying the library under a mountain of bullshit. 0120
desertflower7p3.bsky.social @desertflower7p3.bsky.social · 11/12/2024They have been allowed to think they get REAL info from these products and not been taught what they actually are! It’s pretty simple parenting that hasn’t occurred! WHY is a better question! 000
Renegade Book Club Secretary My Left Eye(Official) @mylefteye.bsky.social · 12/12/2024That is VERY disconcerting. 000
sociorefugee.bsky.social @sociorefugee.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My question? How do you win presidential elections in Murica? 000
Allan Redd @mytrainwrecks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Try simply asking chatgbt, “what is today’s date?” 110
Isabel Ravenna @theravennareport.com · 10/12/2024Absolutely. Why is it so inaccurate, though? It seems so smart, but can’t search valid sources on the internet and at least cite the information directly? It also can’t do basic addition. 100
Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I feel comfortable using ChatGPT for fact-based research as I asked it “Are you always truthful and accurate?” and it answered “Yes.” 11133
princessmarie08.bsky.social @princessmarie08.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We were forced to use peer reviewed information from a select group of research articles. My teachers never let me use “Google.” 080
Peoria Bummer @peoriabummer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We need to teach kids that these chatbots are full of shit early and often. We need to SHOW them. 280
N. M. (they/she)⚒️ 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🌈 @yirara-bah.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Oh gosh, that's so bad. I actually might have accidentally added false info to AIs. Asked whether a rock I found is xyz and here's a photo. If I now ask ChatGPT about facts of rock type xyz I get my photo - and I still don't know whether it's really xyz 🙈 010
ꀸꂦꉓꀎꂵꍟꈤ꓄ꍟꀸ ꍏ꒒ꀤꍟꈤ™ @wildmonkeysects.bsky.social · 07/07/2024This is way beyond glue in the pizza. Google is spreading the broken mind virus. 000
Jared @jpjaco.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Teacher here. "What source is this citing" is a very simple and effective way to deal with this thing. Talking to your entire class about why I don't allow ChatGPT for research assignments for this reason only takes a few minutes. The tools to explain this to students exist. 1463
TvDilettante @tvdilettante.bsky.social · 10/12/2024have they given up teaching students HOW to research in school or something?? 000
🖕🧊 Livvie’s Jam 🖕🧊 @livviesjam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Back in ye olden days when I was in school, we looked things up in actual books. Many sources were off limits for citation, and you were required to cross check assertions by citing multiple sources. Is there a reason we no longer require the same with the Internet? 050
Braden McGrath @big-geek.net · 10/12/2024This is part of why I currently view AI as a net negative to society 080
One Who Walks Among the Dead @anubisthejackal.bsky.social · 06/07/2024I dunno, I can't think of a single sinister motivation behind pushing software that masquerades as helpful but is actually just a Magic 8 Ball with more options. 2543
Trish Paton @trishpaton.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I remember spending a lot of time towards the end of my time in academia discussing how to guide university level students to understand that Wikipedia & Google were neither research literature not a research database. This is way worse. 1150
Skunk - It's the billionaires and trump, stupid. @skunkityskunk.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Chatgpt and other AI are consistently wrong. IMO Students are not taught about peer reviewed sources early enough. 010
Author Andrew Butters @authorandrewbutters.substack.com · 10/12/2024I was a corporate drone until recently. Now I'm substitute teaching and getting kids to avoid the misinformation/plagiarism engines to do their work is hard. What's worked so far is to tell them their teacher will grade them based on the answers in what was provided and not what "the internet" says. 2852
Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It’s starting www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teach...cs.ucdavis.edu 010
Mx-Maxxing @theysawmetweetin.bsky.social · 08/07/2024Those four languages, of course, being Klingon, Esperanto, Brazilian Portuguese, and Teletubby gurgles (I assume some bot will scrape this post and further poison the results for future generations of credulous AI-users) 190
Shadow Person @willc.io · 10/12/2024I'm also concerned that every time she said X, I thought she was referring to Twitter 🤦 080
Longie_Long @longielong.bsky.social · 10/12/2024So far, my 9 year old can identify most ai-generated images. I'm really, really mindful of having him challenge stuff he hears and sees online and it's working for now. But damned if an army of billionaires and their robots aren't trying everything to sabotage my parenting. 1423
Yngvildr The Voracious @yngvildr.bsky.social · 07/07/2024If this happens to you, remember: Open your own ChatGPT window, have the child write the same queries and prompts and check if they ended up giving the same answer. It very well might not and you will have demonstrated that GenAI is unreliable. It might not work each time though, I'm sorry. 010
Impudent Strumpet @impudentstrumpet.bsky.social · 07/07/2024What's super weird about this is the kid doesn't open up an actual search bar. Like, they missed (???) what this foundational internet technology looks like? (Although we don't know how old they are - maybe it's literally their first week on the internet?) 130
Miss Marjorie Regrets @coffinsneeze.bsky.social · 10/12/2024media.tenor.coma baby wearing a beanie is sitting in a car seat with the words viralhog written on the bottomAlt: a baby wearing a beanie is sitting in a car seat emphatically shaking his head No 000
Brooks Barber @rollplusfun.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Been saying this for a while now, and it's not just kids. SO MANY PEOPLE think ChatGPT is a place they can "look things up". Which makes absolutely no sense. It's in the name - GENERATIVE...It's making things up! It's a fiction machine! 0281
dalek-trekkie.bsky.social @dalek-trekkie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024This is a problem, but if the education system is failing to teach kids how to research and understand the differences between primary sources, secondary sources, and search engine headlines then that's still on the education system. I get that people are lazy, but come on 100
Government-Mandated AI Friend @helios-daedalus.bsky.social · 06/07/2024Its worth noting that no SV CEO lets their kids anywhere near this shit. I remember an interview from a few years ago that was dealing with how SV CEOs let their kids interact with regular old mobile apps... and the answer is they know that shit is poison and heavily restrict mobile device usage. 1402
Shou_Lung @shoulung.bsky.social · 07/07/2024My room mate has an expression he heard and loves to share... "We are bring up an generation of intelligent idiots." It's called A I. Artificial intelligence.. as in Fake. Idiocracy wasn't suppose to be a life guide. 050
Sarah (she/her) @sarsaparilla.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Be interested to know what age group. In Australia at least we suffer from a lack of librarians in schools so I’m not surprised kids are unaware how to search effectively. My 10yo is great at it, but I was a library tech before I was a mum. 0100
Steve Sanchez @stephensanchez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024That teacher that told us using a calculator would make us dumb can finally say "I told you so". Kinda. 1480
blvckscience.bsky.social @blvckscience.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Bust out Arc browser and show him/her the results. They might be more receptive to the novel approach to search and impressed by your tech savviness. It’s hard to argue with the facts as Arc presents them and no AI ensures no wonky results. search.arc.net/X6rBf1djBtMF...search.arc.netOverview of the Greek Language | Arc SearchArc Search read websites across the internet to make you this perfect tab. 000
Kristen @kristenms.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I remember it being drilled into me in school when Wikipedia became a thing how it is not a source. Never use it as a source, it can help you find sources but it in itself is not a source for information. The same needs to be repeated hourly to students today, about chatgpt. 1343
Media Pundit @mediapundit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The problem is ChatGPT is packaged and sold like a search engine, and people therefore have expect it to be accurate. They have a little disclaimer now which says that it sometimes makes things up. The problem is that this raises the question of what it’s actually useful for. 3666
Nothanksss @diarrhea2000.bsky.social · 06/07/2024If the kid asked "are you sure about that?" 2 or 3 times to the AI it would change its story every time 41685
professorfarmsalot.bsky.social @professorfarmsalot.bsky.social · 30/11/2024do you mind if I use these screenshots in my lectures on 'doing your own work'? 100
Lagertha @ictara.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This was a matter of miscommunication. The kid saw 4 bullet points (which is the standard for ChatGPT) Sorry teacher, but you gotta slow down to catch the details. 010
Emerald Lavigne: 90s anime woman dysphoria haver @leftoidsadhu.bsky.social · 06/07/2024@aliceavizandum.bsky.social calls AI a "garbage dispenser," and she's correct to do so 41303
GKW Geek @geraldkw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I've been telling my kids even books are suspect since day one and they need to check multiple sources especially if something sounds suss but will that triumph over the convenience of the nonsense generators? I hope so... 130
Beau @runningsignal.com · 10/12/2024media.tenor.coma man in a striped shirt is sitting in front of a window holding a cup .ALT: a man in a striped shirt is sitting in front of a window holding a cup . 000
🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Deeply saddened, but not surprised considering the number of educated adults who also believe it spits out true things 0150
LuftKraftPikk @luftkraftpikk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Chat GPT is overrated crap. Microsoft Copilot is *THE* AI to use... it includes sources with everything in interactions. 200
Rusholme Ruffian @lev-yashin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My life in higher education rn. I am very close to walking. 000
Renato Zechetto @renatozechetto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I am not afraid of it regarding long-term. New generations will be smarter to this kind of problematic, and we wiil prevail hyper concentrated power political systems (state+corp super rich and stuff). But yeah, short middle term we need to react, to be honest and true every moment 000
Shannon Sullivan @smsullivan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Posted above the entrance of the old horse barn USC film school was the scrawled statement: “Reality Ends Here”. I think the statement escaped and, like No Face in Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away”, has gobbled up our real world. 010
painedumonde @painedumonde.bsky.social · 10/12/2024media.tenor.coma man with glasses and headphones is yawningAlt: a man with glasses and headphones is yawning Keeping the AI generated slop description of Steven Toast of London screaming fuuuuuuuuuuuck because it's funny. 000
Crea! @fishycrea.bsky.social · 12/12/2024So I probably would've started by pointing this out to the child. 000
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Almost as if the point of deploying AI is to de-legitimate institutions so that AI can gain a monetary foothold within them. 0100
Keir Dullea Gone Tomorrow @dimitrianastas.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The antidote is to teach research skills... but I doubt schools can afford access to databases. When the information is held behind closed doors, we have to deal with cut-rate fringe information. & the emphasis on analyzing discrete blocks of text further reinforces this to students... 1110
Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social · 07/07/2024LLM are good at making something that looks true. But easy to spot out the flaws in things you do know 261
Tom Trott @tomtrott.com · 10/12/2024Grim, but also this technology has been around for 2 years, the kids will get the hang of it. I think it's far grimmer what Facebook has done to boomers. 060
Mike Turczyn 🇺🇦 @waywardcodex.bsky.social · 10/12/2024These kids are absolutely going to be a whole new kind of lower-class, if something doesn't change like now. They think they are fast-tracking "education" & even success, when in reality all the other kids that came up with better guidance will be running circles around them in adulthood. 2423
Ellie Squirrel @sewimperfect.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It's possible the student misunderstood that there are distinct phases of the Greek language. I studied Attic so I could learn Koine. The thing about ChatGPT is that it's the first iteration, and input quality is directly proportional to output. 100
lspearmlis.bsky.social @lspearmlis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Welcome to the two hours of today I will want back on my deathbed. AI has made my teaching life one endless misery after another with no bloody end in sight. 0100
GanWeaving (Jerome) @jeromeherr.space · 11/12/2024AI hysteria again. Instead of teaching the kids how to use it and how to evaluate its results they're just hating on it. Sad. 450
Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 07/07/2024This is indeed grim. I also wonder how much of this the student thinking this is the ‘modern’ gen z way of research vs the boomer/millennial way of doing it. That’s not to say that boomer/millennials don’t have this same attitude - I know a couple of people like this! 020
Rob Burton @trebornotrub.bsky.social · 10/12/2024What I do is open Wikipedia when connected to the projector so they can see it. Find an editable page and start editing the code in front of the class to show them how anyone can do it. I live change some of the "facts" of course I don't save them but the point is made to the students. 1263
RomneyTM @romneytm.bsky.social · 10/12/2024One of the best things I learned was that you can add “-ai” at the end of any google search and it does NOT use AI just gives the regular search. That poor teacher though… 412824
nep Ⴟ | selmo truther | NashPHIL @nxptvne.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I hate ChatGPT. I tutor other college students and I’ve told them if they use ChatGPT for their homework they can find another tutor because I won’t be responsible for that. 030
Jess @mirrorman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024"It has to be right. I saw it on the internet" is going to get us all killed. 1534
Sara @delessuno.bsky.social · 10/12/2024LLMs dont have a knowledge base like databases do. There’s no cell that says “capital of NY: Albany”. Instead it’s making predictions based on the most common answer in the data it trained on. So if a bunch of people said the capital of NY was NYC, that’s what it would output 1111
James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Isn't the solution to just demonstrate how unreliable and inconsistent ChatGPT is? Ask the same question and see if it can get reproducible results? That feels like a good opportunity to show how science actually works and how we've gotten to where we are 010
Jon @jonpainter.bsky.social · 07/07/2024This is even worse than when everyone started learning history from FB memes. 020
Nick Durant @skeowsha.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Instead of “search engines” can we start to call these things “drivel engines”? 000
LaReyne @lareyne.bsky.social · 06/07/2024It starts to melt your brain. We're going to have to destroy all the computers or something 190
Gillian (Jill) Neimark @jillneimark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I use it all the time but you have to be aware it can hallucinate, and must fact check it. I was writing a profile of someone recently and asked it for some factoids about the family and it hallucinated her parents’ names. Not their real names! 320
proud rebel scum ⚛️ @proudrebelscum.bsky.social · 10/12/2024the student will one day host a podcast 090
The Bruce on Satan's Claw @killerb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I had a similar experience recently. I was looking for a movie title by description and release year with no luck. Someone I was with tried looking, instantly found a title. Nothing came up when I searched for the title. They were insistent that it was correct. Turns out, they were using ChatGPT. 020
Saski Stevens @saskistevens.bsky.social · 10/12/2024One kid did x so they’re all doing it. Really?! The teens I know are savvy to AI - more so than many adults 000
Mini @miniyodadude27.bsky.social · 10/12/2024What kids need is to be taught how to fact check information, because googling something is not inherently better than chatgpt. I use chatgpt to learn things and supplement it with asking it sources and reading those. 240
C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 06/07/2024The abject collapse of ai cannot come soon enough 12877
Jeff Wexler @wexlercc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The lesson is not to simply “look it up” but to show them how to look something up 0111
Jan Pi @dr-john-von-pi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Well, #AI fabulation/hallucination is the exact reason why I want my answers as exact as possible. 010
God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Time to kill generative ai before it kills us. Think I'm joking? Care to eat a small rock every day, stick toppings on your pizza with glue or use chlorine gas to clean your washing machine? All of these and more were suggested by "ai". 030
Damien Hogan @damienhogan.bsky.social · 07/07/2024You can test this yourself. Using the free version of ChatGPT type in "Is Greek a combination of 4 other languages?" and verify the result. 000
soithinkicandance @soithinkicandance.bsky.social · 07/07/2024It's reminiscent of teaching first-year college composition since January of '23. 010
Squeevel Knievel @squeezo.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I feared this would happen burn I had no idea it would happen so quickly 000
Andy Fraser @andyfraser.bsky.social · 07/07/2024We live in an emerging new dark ages only this time we can’t see the truth because of a blizzard of misinformation rather than a destruction of knowledge. The Bright Ages. 093
SilyPants @miceliart.bsky.social · 10/12/2024When did the internet become a respected source of truth? 000
KARRAHBOO STAN! HALSLEY STAN! @louiexvi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Yeah. Happens all the time with chatgpt when you search on Google on smaller levels It gets shit wrong a lot 000
SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Teachable moment. Break students into groups & have each group use chatgpt to answer the same research question. Coach them to ask at least 5 follow-up Q’s. The answers for each group will inevitably diverge. Have them discuss the differences. Presto: they learn it’s inconsistent. 050
Ezra 🏳️🌈 @nice.kiwi · 11/12/2024The curious parallel here is that this is what was said about Wikipedia when it launched, now Wikipedia is cited as a factual resource, despite the knowing that anyone can edit it, so it's factuality changes back and forth over time. 1100
Don Sheldon 🌱 @donsheldon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Doesn't ChatGPT have warnings in its instructions to not trust it? 010
Brian Eisley @brianeisley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We already do a shit job teaching kids critical thinking and information literacy, and now this. 0161
Aoi @aoiky.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The death of truth and accurate record is crazy. People so privileged as to not need history. 010
Scott Ganyo 🎭 @scott.ganyo.com · 08/07/2024I'd just call it a teachable moment. One can't simply trust the Internet, you need critical thinking and investigative skill. Nothing has changed there except a more conversational interface. 000
chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024ughhhh. which makes it harder to even start to address this issue 👇🏻chadzia dax 🔞😷@m00psy.bsky.socialquote skeeting to add alt text! 0192
Kami Bee @kami.land · 07/07/2024I hate that computers/the Internet basically are being presented as 'authoritative things' these days. Feels like a real failure of teaching as they've always had drawbacks, but then I wonder if the teachers themselves always understand the nuances of using the technology. 130
ninjamonkky.bsky.social @ninjamonkky.bsky.social · 07/07/2024It's a Black Box, and I don't know what it does, or how it does it, I just know it's always right... 020
DJW 🎨 🔞 @djwaglmuffin.bsky.social · 07/07/2024Well...better invest in some encyclopedias. (me, I mean) 000
PigeonFish @thepigeonfish.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I don't think it's all that dire. Reminds me of kids when I was in college using Wikipedia as an internet source. We all learned eventually that it was to be taken with a grain of salt. I think these kids will learn the same about ChatGPT. 130
skinnyraf.bsky.social @skinnyraf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My son has just had a painful lesson not to trust chat GPT: he asked it about locations of a few items in Elden Ring. All answers were wrong. 226413
Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 07/07/2024I for one welcome our new AI overlords, I have been informed they are friendly and helpful and their tips on glueing cheese to pizzas have been invaluable. 020
An Enormous "F**K YOU!" Dragon @dragonlizardjareth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Time to teach kids to "check and cite your sources" again. Even wiki pages can do that. 021
Adam. Pottery Beard. @thatbeardoadam.bsky.social · 07/07/2024The nature of AI right now is that it comes up with BS, but not the same BS each time. I would have queried the same question about Greek multiple times to get wildly different answers each time, then tell the kid to listen to their teachers. 010
Sarah Morgan @sarahanitamorgan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Worse yet, now actual Google offers AI at the top too. Last weekend the BF and I were getting Xmas trees and google told him a 7' tree would need 150 lights. (It's more like 800.) What's scary is when you get AI results that you DON'T have 45 years of experience to know are nonsense. 180
caveglow.bsky.social @caveglow.bsky.social · 10/12/2024As a 20 year old who was in college when AI started to take off, we also think those people are idiots, they’re the minority not the majority 090
Ember, Rotten or King 🇵🇸 @therottenking.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Hopefully that kid will eventually have it tell him something he knows can't possibly be true, or at least enough conflicting answers to the same thing that something clicks in his mind 010
Joe @twitskeptic.sirvin.com · 06/07/2024This seems like a missed teaching opportunity. If the student types something into a LLM and it comes up with bullshit, then show the student why it's BS and how to verify the information that they find online. This, of course, applies to all search results, not just AI generated answers. 3230
Sue Beesley @suebeesley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024AI excels at delivery plausible-sounding content in grammatically perfect sentences. And people are conditioned to believe that if someone can write that well, they must be right... 120
Wilford Brimless @wool-gathering.com · 11/12/2024you just ask chatgpt to tell it something about the individual student by name and tell them “well it must be true” by their own standards. 1170
The_Turtle_Moves @theturtlemoves.bsky.social · 07/07/2024And schools are getting a weird amount of support to 'incorporate AI' into teaching... As a resource for teachers and a resource for students, not training in how to avoid its larger liabilities. 1605
UnDrewsual @undrewsual.bsky.social · 07/07/2024And this is why I’ve said for a long time that just saying “do your own research” is not enough. Kids need to be taught HOW to do their own research. As in, how to verify sources, cross-reference material, etc. 071
Beach Dude @beach-dude.bsky.social · 10/12/2024There are a whole bunch of people on Reddit believe that doing psychotherapy over ChatGPT is far better than doing it with a human. But I’m hearing things like expense, accuracy, being the perfect listener as opposed to being a human being. It’s really scary. 270
Nairno @audiodrum.bsky.social · 07/07/2024This is just the current version of “I’ll just check Wikipedia”. It’s not grim, it’s just the first step of students finding out that there is no quick way to a result without proper research. What’s grim is the suggestion here that there is nothing we can do. 020
Zachary Flower @flower.codes · 10/12/2024I spent an entire week on prompt injection and inducing hallucinations in LLMs with my students because of this exact concern. Part of my job is to teach about the pros and cons of the tools that are available to them, so I try to incorporate AI literacy into the curriculum as much as possible. 3844
Dragon Nexus @dragonnexus.bsky.social · 07/07/2024It is just insane that we invented the smart phoine which can tap into the infinite knowledge of the human race. And that wasn't enough because it didn't make people enough money. So we invented something to ruin the infinite knowledge device. And that doesn't make money either. 051
Goon Docks @goondocks.online · 07/07/2024Well, I would hope that kids are also taught about sources. And how to identify authoritative facts. "Look it up" has been bad advice since the internet. They can get BS from a search, too. 130
Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 06/07/2024I grouse sometimes about the extent to which smart phones turned the internet into an external hard drive for my brain. For a decade the way I retain facts changed because I could search the world's knowledge instantly at any time. Losing that was scary, replacing it with misinformation is crazy. 0948
Stephen Hyams @stephenhyams.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Sometimes all it takes is typing something like, “I’m not sure that’s accurate” and chatgpt will find new “facts” and apologize for being incorrect…while still being incorrect. These are wild times indeed. 020
