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[Janice, Moderator]

ChatGPT displays it's sources and I've never seen ads. I have the free version.

I know that AI can be inaccurate. It used to state that quite prominently, but I haven't seen the disclaimer lately. I'm fully aware of it's limitations, so I don't rely on it 100%. This morning, it helped me format Excel with a custom requirement. I'm using it to make shopping lists and planning lists for my trip to Jasper next week. Those are the types of things I primarily use it for.

[Karin]

Janice wrote: "ChatGPT displays it's sources and I've never seen ads. I have the free version.

I know that AI can be inaccurate. It used to state that quite prominently, but I haven't seen the disclaimer lately...."

Aha, I don't have any AI software on my computer at this point. It's too old for Apple AI since it has an Intel chip. I'm not sure how much I want it. When I queried a developmental editor she told me she doesn't take things written with AI and I don't blame her--those would not read well! Plus, you aren't actually writing them, just plugging stuff in.

However, one of my cousins uses one type of AI for work. She works in the main parole department for the Canadian federal government--she writes well, but it saves her many hours of time when writing for long reports, etc. She does do copy editing and proofreading on them before submitting them.

[Janice, Moderator]

It's become a problem for educators too in that students are submitting papers written by AI. I guess it's today's version of Cliffs Notes.

[Karin]

Janice wrote: "It's become a problem for educators too in that students are submitting papers written by AI. I guess it's today's version of Cliffs Notes."

Before AI, and perhaps even now, there were/are students who pay people to write their papers for them.

AI papers are usually obvious unless they've been well edited/copy-edited. I have heard somewhere that some professors tell students that if they use AI they'd better go through it and edit, etc, to make it theirs.

If I were a prof, I'd resort to having students write things in class at times, but then I'm old enough we wrote all of our final exams in exam notebooks if they involved short answers, or essay, etc type answers. Back then we virtually all wrote in cursive, which is a dying art--too bad, because it actually stimulates part of the brain and makes it smarter.

But then my eldest wrote many some of her college finals by hand as well and so did my son who is Gen Z, so it's not that antiquated!

[Janice, Moderator]

I recall that people would pay others to write their essays. People will cheat, but they are only cheating themselves because they aren't learning.