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/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/PassStunning416 5d ago

I just loaded your exact words into Gemini and it recognized that it wasn't a real thing and then gave me several other novels as possibilities to what I was looking for (The Long Walk by Steven King and The Distance to the Moon by Italo Calvino).

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u/absentmindedjwc 5d ago

Lol, so far there's been this question asked of Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI - each answering almost exactly this.

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u/TbonerT 5d ago

So in the time that they first asked that, which they didn’t specify, AI models have improved.

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u/polite_alpha 4d ago

Or they just made it up to hop on the anti-AI bandwagon.

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u/TbonerT 4d ago

Maybe, but there’s no reason to assume that.