Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.
I was gonna ignore this now that it’s on my dash for like the 5th time but I’m bored at work so fuck it.
This poem is so deeply cringey and I have no idea how so many people found that it speaks to them except through a kneejerk agreement with anything that dunks on AI.
The fact that anyone finds truth in “what are you trying to be free of? The living?” seems to me to be a reminder that most people on here absolutely despise kids. Are we seriously all going to pretend like kids never get assigned too much work? Are we really going to act like patronizingly telling them that the overwhelming schoolwork is important not because of the learning but because of the work itself?
Hell, even if we’re applying this to college students, there are so many fields for which an undergrad degree is just a stamp of approval for a resume and not a meaningful education.
This is less coherent than it would be otherwise so I’m gonna rely on mutuals to hopefully clarify my points but all of this is to say that this poem is just a fanciful means of saying “life sucks and you need to put up with it and shut up”.
Regardless of your stance on AI, can we recognize that this has no potential convincing effect, and solely serves as an effortless smug dunk?
You wouldn’t believe the ghoulish shit people are saying in the replies too. There’s people talking about how they sometimes use llms on assignments because they’re at school with a job and there’s literally no way to keep up with the assignments, and the responses are pretty much all “you’re lazy” or “well you should just drop out”
Not the bootstraps poetry LOL
Oh my godddd op be for real for just one second and recognize that “we’re all getting collectively punished and it’s YOUR fault for not making an effort” is so deeply bought into a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mindset. Honestly peak useful idiot
"love is for the ones who love the work" is particularly ghoulish
shove your calvinist work ethic up your fucking ass
This feels like folk talking past each other once again.
I'm doing a masters degree right now, its in a passion field, people only really do it for the love of it, it doesn't pay once you graduate.
And the others on my course are passionate, they do care. And the work load is both interesting and not very heavy.
But literally every single person uses ChapGPT to do almost every assignment.
So yeah, if you're neurodivergent, if you're working full time and studying, if you're doing it just for the career tick-box-exercise then I get it. It makes sense, these tools are still tools at the end of the day.
But that's not the only reason they're being used. Everyone is using these tools by default now. Everyone. For everything. Regardless of their interest in the subject or time/ability to complete the task.
There definitely is an element of laziness at play for those who are able to do it the long way and don't, of course there is, if something takes 5 minutes to do instead of 5 hours then of course laziness will be a factor.
And yeah obviously you don't call someone lazy if they need help, or if the only way to graduate is to use the tools, but we can still challenge the absolutely UBIQUITOUS use of AI.
And folk who are challenging it, or writing poems about doing it the hard way, are absolutely in the minority here. Even my professors openly use ChatGPT. And this is likely true at almost every university now.
Does it negatively impact the ones not using AI? No. I really don't think so, at least not in my case because the work is easy to do without it.
But I really do think its bad sign if even the ones who are able, and passionate, are substituting challenging themselves for a quick solution.
It's scaring the fuck out of me.
