Id just repeat myself and add fluff to get 5 pages, I got pretty good from cliff notes
What did the random man add to this?
Encyclopedias, a library card, and a typewriter
one of our literature teachers had a thing about students who didn't read the books from the course and she was giving out a "free one" to any student who would bullshit their way through report creatively. barely anyone ever managed to get a grade that way though because it wasn't creative enough.
Catcher in the Rye is a tail as old as time about a famous MLB catcher turned farmer and written by JB Salamander.
C+
No AI but the sources at the bottom of a Wikipedia page were the real MVP.
I remember getting told not to use wikipedia as a source and that was pretty obvious. We also got told it was a great jumping off point and that the listed sources could be used. I feel like Wikipedia is the only thing I trust anymore.
Meme aside, it's refreshing to see punctuation used in a meme, and it makes it so much easier to read
I wrote a five page essay in the six hours before the 9am deadline, while high as balls. Kids these days gotta lock in. And do more drugs.
Are people actually saying shit like this? I weep for humanity.
The year was 2010. I was taking a required English class for my degree. The final was a surprise hand written essay. That final might as well have been raising a barn for most of the class.
I might have been in trouble if it was cursive. Fucking capital G
fuckinG?
I wrote them by hand, in cursive. But not before I made a harvard outline.
But seriously if anyone out there is actually trying to write an essay, the harvard outline model is legit for organizing and setting up.
Outlines have always driven me insane. I prefer to write like a deranged animal and then restructure as necessary
This is the first time I've ever heard this had a name.
Huh, I was taught the Cornell outline method. I didn't know there was competition!
I'm actually teaching some students who honest to God are in their early teens and LITERALLY cannot string two sentences together. I never want to hear anybody tell me about how writing assignments were a waste of time again, because I can PERSONALLY vouch that if you don't practice it, you literally cannot do it at all.
Essay writing (for example exercises that you are arguing for one side vs the other) is major part how you learn critical thinking.
I suspect that the educated people who were anti vax during covid most likely paid others to write essays for them.
Skim the book, read a couple reviews online, find a couple random quotes from the book, then write a 10 page comparative essay discussing how the book relates to American exceptionalism and do it again next week.
Spark Notes saved me tons of times.
You want me to believe J.R.R Tolkien generated a whole new series and setting without AI?
Dude was a multidimensional being from an alternate future where magic was real and he copied history books. Occam’s razor man, sometimes the simplest answer is the right one. /s just in case.
True story: I once made up an entire book during recess because I forgot the assignment. The teacher probably was aware but gave good grades because I was the only one who kept on going instead of summarising the book in under a minute.
In other words no, we don't need ai.
On the bus on the way to school when it was due in the first period.
I did that once for some big assignment. I got a B and a "you can do better" from the teacher.
My daughter got nearly mobbed by her co-students for "not telling which AI she used for writing her papers". Her papers were regularly applauded for her good writing. She hates AI with a vengeance and wrote all her papers on her own. She is just good at this kind of thing.
And now anyone who is even remotely good at creative writing or even just passably literate with a good vocabulary are forever going to have their works called into question.
On the other hand, there is no better praise than having some Gen Z kid with terminal brain rot accuse you of talking like an AI model. I accept that implied insult like a gamer accepting a hackusation - I'm winning so much that you can't discern cheating from skill.
Lol here we have final exams where you have to write long answers. The art of writing slop is still alive and kicking.
In high school I took first place in the essay contest at the regional academic decathlon competition with an essay on Frankenstein (the assigned novel for that year).
I hadn't read Frankenstein.
LMAO I hated the Great Gatsby and guessed the ending, even some subtext. It was so bad that everyone that read the book, couldn't for the life of them answer that question right on the test. I have bullshitted tests, papers, and a variety of things by having forming an opinion on the subtext, actual text, and unearned confidence. If I had time, I would read opinions and papers of others to form opinions that could hold more water than a teaspoon (in my opinion). These clankers that lean on LLMs are doing themselves a MASSIVE disservice.
5 pages? I wish it were that easy...
copy paste baby worksited bump up font woot woot
Burn bright and fade fast. I do not miss that shit ngl. I do still love reading, though.
Replace every shorten form of word to actual two words to get page full! It’s to It is They’ve to they have They’re to they are
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
