I’m wary when ai is presumed to be infallible despite its hallucinations; I’m not sure that’s a great way to teach kids yet. However, I went through the US public school system, so I’m well aware of how useless the average US teacher’s opinion is on basically anything. I also really want to see the institution change because right now everything after elementary is a patronizing, glorified daycare/prison for teenagers.
I think there's definitely harm and it doesn't even require teachers to use it. Lazy students will plug anything into chatGPT. Instead of obviously plagiarized unreadable garbage like you used to get, you get coherent AI maybe garbage that's harder to detect. And students not doing the assignment doesn't help them. It's also limiting to require all work to be done in class or oral to try and prevent usage.
As someone who also went through the public school system and who was able to get into an ivy league school off of that education, maybe you should show some more respect to the people doing the work of education for shit pay.
How exactly does your ivy league have any relevance? Anyways, maybe 1 in 7 of my teachers were great people and I appreciate them immensely, but I had so, so many bad teachers. I had several teachers who would throw on vaguely relevant tv every class instead of teaching. Overall, most of them didn’t seem interested in teaching us, nor did they seem very informed outside of the class material. I don’t think they’re terrible people or something, just components of a terrible and underfunded system, but I also don’t trust their opinions on the future of teaching.
It's a quality signal. Not all my teachers were good and the system is underfunded, but most of turn cared about the students and I'm incredibly thankful for the education they gave me. I trust the opinions of people teaching kids everyday a lot more than I trust the average hacker news comment.
