I’ve been working with so many students who turn to it as a first resort for everything. The second a problem stumps them, it’s AI. The first source for research is AI.
It’s not even about the tech, there’s just something about not wanting to learn that deeply upsets me. It’s not really something I can understand. There is no reason to avoid getting better at writing.
We agree. My original comment was
That was only half of your comment.
Here’s where I disagree. All together the two sentences read as though you’re second sentence is the reason for why you believe the first sentence.
The point I was trying to make with the library analogy is that although you wouldn’t list "the library " as a source of information, you probably wouldn’t consider them to be enemies of education.
Perhaps I should have been more explicit about the subject
Wikipedia and Google are enemies of academic papers just as much as LLMs.
They are not enemies of learning. Neither are libraries.
I am hesitant to say that an LLM is a good source of learning because it bullshits regularly in ways that are undetectable.