I am seriously despondent about generative bots because other than canvasing and aggregating listicles so I can begin to learn about something - note I said begin to learn about it, because it's useless for more than collecting introductory ideas about concepts which I then need to study in my own - or generating a template for a rote document which I then correct/ customize to suit my needs... It's useless. It does nothing valuable, its answers are vapid and can't be trusted.
People I respect, people I otherwise admire
Immediately get a rictus grin and say "this will be so useful for workplace efficiency"
Or "this is going to be so useful for students"
No one has explained to me the actual academic use case for these bots
It remains an educational questing beast, a monster they'll never seem to catch
Meanwhile I have more students every class using it to try to cheat
People say it's hard to detect but you can especially in early college or high school
A student who's struggling to master comp and has a hard time meeting assignment goals suddenly posts a long error free paragraph, usually more
That paragraph is v-a-g-u-e. It will only address the topic in the most general sense. This is because the bot is skimming multiple sources and tends to do so in the shallowest way. No personal references, no odd asides, nothing super detailed but ALSO nothing not relevant. It will be a dull smile of an assignment.
Then and here's a fun one, run the assignment through Zero GPT and, AND a couple of good plagiarism checkers. ZeroGPT isn't foolproof but it will confirm your assessment.
The plagiarism checkers will sometimes come back hot with multiple sites. A sentence here, a sentence there
Because it's picking up the sites the bot sampled to puke up its answer. Original content my aunt alzina
Seriously this nonsense, these lazy nerds, these pseudo intelligent boors and their thighmaster of a program
I'm normally a marshmallow to students but they need to be cured of chatgpt early and ruthlessly
Also guess what's making a comeback as teachers fight back against this nonsense
Pick up your #2 pencils kids