Do you think it's immoral to use chatgpt for college assignments? I think it's unfortunately unavoidable.
It is absolutely immoral, completely counterproductive to the goal of learning things, and turns out incredibly subpar work.
As for unavoidableâŚ.you understand that the vast majority of people who have ever graduated college throughout history did so without ever once using AI, right? You understand that?
You understand that the point of writing papers isnât just to have a paper with words on it, right? You understand that the entire point is to do the mental work necessary to put your learning into organized words, such that you actually learn it? And that if you outsource that to AI you are not learning?
AI use, in anything, is absolutely avoidable.
The point of college is to gain knowledge to use in a future career. The way to gain knowledge is to use your own brain to read the material, absorb the material, and then apply the material in ways that show you have, indeed, learned it.
Using AI to complete your assignments is completely negating your presence in this class at all.
Why are you there if you don't actually want to learn what it's teaching?
How will this help you once you're out in the field of whatever career this is leading you toward?
Letting AI do your assignments is preventing you from actually learning and understanding the material. Sure, you may get good grades on it, but that will simply show that you "know" information you actually don't.
Okay, so you use AI to complete all your coursework, you get high marks, graduate, get a job in the field of your degree . . . now what? You've let a machine do all the heavy lifting in terms of learning. You're on the job now, and expected to know all these things you've let the AI take care of.
You gonna run to AI to ask it questions that anyone else in your position should know off the top of their heads?
You gonna trust that AI to give you correct answers?
You think your coworkers will just stand there and wait for you to check with AI before answering any questions?
"But I didn't let the AI do everything! Just write those papers that are so boring and I'm so bad at writing!"
This is falling along those lines of "That's uncomfy/I'm not automatically and immediately good at something, so I'm just gonna avoid it for the rest of time" mindsets. I get that some things are hard, some things are scary, I have a hard time with things too, but avoiding those hard things because you feel anxious about them isn't doing you any favors.
I know a lot of you are out there hand waving me and just rolling your eyes because this is 'not that big a deal' but I'm imploring you to stop thinking about the easy way and think about what this is doing to your brains, to the world in general. I, personally, do not want to be on a hospital table and have my doctor ask ai how to do heart surgery because he used it to pass all his classes in school and didn't actually know anything.
And no, that's not an exaggeration. I've seen post after post on here alone where people in college--nurses! architects!--are using ai to get through school, and that is absolutely terrifying.
AI is not 'the future'. It's not a 'tool' to help people do work, like I've seen some people compare it to other software programs, like word processors for writers or art programs for artists. AI is not the same thing. Not even close.
Relying on AI is allowing yourself to let your brain atrophy. Your brain is just like any other muscle, and you have to use it to strengthen it. Offloading any thinking to these machines is just letting your brain go mushy, and further this "I can't do that! It's too hard!" mindset.
I don't know how to get it through people's heads that coasting through college (or anything!) completely relying on AI, and acting like it's impossible to not use it, is lazy, ridiculous, and untrue. As the previous poster said, people have been getting through college for many, many decades before AI was invented.
Stop being lazy. Use your own brain. You're in college for a reason, and many other people would love to have the opportunity to be where you are. Don't squander that by unloading all undesirable coursework to AI.
Doing the work is learning the material and gaining the knowledge. Feed your brain. Do it yourself.
