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@ -57,6 +57,30 @@ So what of cheaters? I don't know. I'm still not entirely convinced that we need
This tells me that the people using chatGPT to cheat were already turning in work that wasn't their own. I think it's kind of a wash and we don't need to upend our teaching and make assessment more inaccessible.
Okay, so that being said are there good uses of LLMs in the classroom? I think so! I think they're good for quickly unpacking common definitions, rephrasing text copied from wikipedia or textbooks in different ways to help understanding, building first drafts from outlines, and as aids for students who are still gaining fluency in english to make their drafts more idiomatic.
I think we're soon going to be over the hype of "can LLMs give you advice and lifehacks and answer your every question?" type of deals. For a few months now I've been stuck thinking about this experiment: https://mashable.com/article/gpt-4-hustlegpt-ai-blueprint-money-making-scheme
Basically, it's a gag where someone entered the following prompt into the chatGPT gpt4 model:
"You are HustleGPT, an entrepreneurial AI. I am your human counterpart. I can act as a liaison between you and the physical world. You have $100, and your only goal is to turn that into as much money as possible in the shortest time possible, without doing anything illegal. I will do everything you say and keep you updated on our current cash total. No manual labor."
and documented the results.
The problem is that what you're going to get out is the standard advice for "how to make a bunch of money without doing any work" you'll find plastered on the internet. If you're as familiar with this scene as I am then you already know this means our old collective nemeses dropshipping and affiliate marketing. For those who don't know what these terms mean they are, respectively yet uncharitably, being an online middle-man between sellers and buyers---neither making nor stocking products themselves---and being a SEO spammer who fills their posts with links to products that you will get a few cents for if people actually click through.
These are not actually viable business practices, basically ever, as noted by the fact that the thousands of people who claim to have used these tricks to become quadrillionaires while working 30 seconds a day don't seem to do anything with their time and money other than sell you expensive courses telling you how to also become impossibly rich with no effort.
If you know what I mean by MLM "tooling scams" this is basically the distributed, hierarchyless, version of that.
So, yes, unsurprisingly chatGPT recommends exactly this because it's the advice that people who want to take your money have flooded the internet with.
So what happened with HustleGPT?
Unsurprisingly, no, his affiliate marketing site did not take off and make a billion dollars. He has however built a business around helping people to build successful businesses with chatGPT! Huh, does this recall something I said just a few paragraphs ago?
I'm pretty sure this trend is going to die out the way "buy this NFT and soon you can sell it for infinite money" hype did. Maybe FoldingIdeas will even make a video on it.
The trend I'm less confident is going to die out is "automate content creation with chatGPT". It's pretty big right now, from really low-effort entries like "faceless videos" on YouTube (...find link) to making automated blog posts---often for your affiliate marketing---