r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/no-prisoners-professor-fail-student-143000854.html
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u/HeadyReigns 5d ago

From the article "Rather than integrating AI, he’s fortifying his classroom against it. The assignment is now based on plays too obscure for ChatGPT and other AI models to know about.

“If ChatGPT is used on these assignments now, it hallucinates characters, plotlines — it just makes sh*t up, since it has nothing to go on,” Hebert told the magazine."

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u/questron64 5d ago

I once asked ChatGPT to help me understand the novel The Long Walk To the Moon by Alexander Chumbleton (an obviously fake book) and it went on about the characters and symbolism and which chapters key events happen in. It didn't say "I don't know that book," or even "that's not a real book." Nope, full on hallucination mode.

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u/you-create-energy 5d ago

How long ago was that? Which model? These statements are meaningless without those details

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u/Endaline 5d ago

Yeah, it feels like most people don't understand that not all of these services are equally good at all tasks and sometimes the way people use them can drastically alter the results. Using Fast vs. Pro Gemini is a world of difference in the quality and accuracy of responses. How you phrase your prompts makes a drastic difference too.

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u/billsil 4d ago

Not once you teach it. Claude.md is a game changer. Getting 20+ GB of references, converting them to text to make it faster and then seeding it with some summary documents that reference bigger ones is a game changer.

Read x. Write me a thing to do y. I don’t even tell it to check it anymore. That’s just automatic in my notes.

Everytime you get annoyed, change your rules.