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Lemon Lyman

(1,596 posts)
16. Ugh
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 01:50 AM
4 hrs ago

This is so stupid. I know work can suck. But if you don't do the work, you don't learn anything. If some machine or app is writing your papers and answering your questions, you're not going to learn or improve.

Pisses me off to see some commercials now using improper grammar ("The Honda CRV Hybrid will help you make less trips to the pump" -- No, it's FEWER). It's like even smart people are dumbing things down b/c dumb people expect to hear it a certain way.

anyways (anyway)
could of/should of (could have/should have)
they're bias (biased)
that's a bunch of dribble (drivel)
she's the worse (worst)

I think a lot of people just do things phonetically. And if you correct someone's grammar, even politely, you're an a*shole. We're regressing. I think in 20 years we'll be communicating by clicks and grunts like cave people.

Idiocracy should win an honorary Oscar every year. It came out in 2005, and it was 99% right about the future.

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Jfc. SheltieLover 7 hrs ago #1
No doubt. This stuff is scary. Talk about dumbing people down! n/t PatrickforB 6 hrs ago #7
For sure! And many people go for it! SheltieLover 6 hrs ago #9
Yale is like an Olympic training camp for the mind tinrobot 7 hrs ago #2
"I want to comment, and I have this concept, but I don't know how to formulate the sentence myself." PeaceWave 7 hrs ago #3
And those Yale students at least got through high school, or most of the way through it, before AI use highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #5
Yup. Straw Man 3 hrs ago #20
So it is working to perfection then misanthrope 3 hrs ago #22
The old saying... oldsoldierfadingfast 7 hrs ago #4
Wat ar u talkin about! FHRRK1 6 hrs ago #10
Shame on educators allowing this. chowder66 6 hrs ago #6
Most of the teachers I've talked to tried to stop it. School admins were pressured by AI companies, or highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #8
they'd never get away with this NJCher 5 hrs ago #11
Only because you are there watching them read the essays and create the response. Intractable 5 hrs ago #14
No way NJCher 1 hr ago #23
I'm an AI hater and I don't see how there's no way they couldn't use AI unless they're doing all this in front of you. WhiskeyGrinder 4 min ago #24
I'm reminded of a Star Trek episode... BurnDoubt 5 hrs ago #12
THIS is getting scary. calimary 5 hrs ago #13
That's pitiful BeneteauBum 5 hrs ago #15
Ugh Lemon Lyman 4 hrs ago #16
Reknown or renown instead of renowned. LisaM 4 hrs ago #18
The end of struggle and critical thinking. AllyCat 4 hrs ago #17
Yale grads that'll wonder why nobody will hire them. n/t flvegan 3 hrs ago #19
Prof. Kingsfield from the "Paper Chase" would destroy these students should they later decide to attend Harvard Law andym 3 hrs ago #21
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